My Citroen has probably cost three times what I naively thought to repair it would cost, plus it’s not finished and I have largely done the work myself with huge help from my brother and other friends. so make do and mend or sell are probably the sensible options.
Skipped on buying a fiat 850 spider that looked good but after a soda blast needed more than 800 hours of labour welding/fabrication to just sort the body out. So that car cost way more than it will be worth.
My Citroen has probably cost three times what I naively thought to repair it would cost, plus it’s not finished and I have largely done the work myself with huge help from my brother and other friends. so make do and mend or sell are probably the sensible options.