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Final, final update: Got the last statement from GM Financial. Was surprised to see they were going to charge me $900 or so dollars but since the car sold at auction for more than the buyout + the charge, they waived it. I am assuming the charge was for the tires. The only rule to replacing the tires is they have to be the same performance rating or better and even though I knew that and thought what I was buying was the same rating, they actually were not. At the end of the day, it didn't matter. In case any one is curious, the car sold at auction for $31,000 and the dealership down south that bought it had it on their lot for $34,500!!! There really is some COVID madness there. You could bought one in similar condition (age, mileage) a year or so ago for around $26k. Oh, and it still has the same tires on it so I guess they couldn't have been too bad ?

They really do. That being said, either of you are ever in Columbus, I will take you to Dirty Franks, our premere hot dog joint. https://dirtyfranks.com/

I am not "trying to convince"; I have merely (and repeatedly) asked the question; what does an electric motor swap into a collectible car do to its value? Maybe someone has seen a sold price on such a conversion (versus an asking price). The highest values for a given collector vehicle -condition aside- is almost always in lockstep with originality. When you pull the original powertrain, you have dented that value to some degree. EVEN IF a BE swap costed exactly the same as a current crate V8 swap to the dollar (and that's not remotely close, despite David's sandbagging attempts), what is the value of those 2 configurations ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL? At some point, a few of these conversions will cross the block; it'll be interesting to see if a buyer or 3 stepping up morphs into a long-term & established trend... OR that the sale price consensus says otherwise and the deviation only appeals to a handful of buyers.

Hang tough, things usually have a way of working out.

You missed something. ? More than likely my fault since I gave both threads similar names.

Dont forget with an ecoboosted 4 cylinder engine...to prove a point that a Jaguar E Type E-Motor swap is an expensive swap that is worthless, but we are trying to convince folk that maybe an ecoboosted 4 cylinder swapped Jaguar E Type, because a Hellephant one is not WOW enough, will impress folk and will clamour it up like noboy's business... Or an LS swapped Jaguar E Type. Because swapping Jaguars with OEM crate ICE engines are somehow worth money and are NOT money pits JUST to discuss how e-motor swapped Jags are not... Because we have an unhealthy beef with electric cars... Read the entire thread...

Somehow a $9200 ‘70 Mustang coupe has morphed into a $100 grand Eleanor clone. ?

No, but it's an almost even comparison to the ECrate motor, not a 1000hp Hellephant. Well, 310hp vs 281hp vs 760hp 350tq vs 317tq vs 625tq I'll let you choose which numbers are similar and which are outliers.

@ccap41 If you really are NOT trolling, and NOT being obtuse... What Balthy is suggesting... you really think this car would be of MORE of value to somebody with an ecoboosted 4 cylinder engine under the hood??? Like I said... get real... If somebody chooses to electrify an Eleanor Mustang with a Mach E powertrain... The argument is will that car be of value to somebody else in that the original modder would recuperate his investment? Because EV powertrains are insanely high. (To which I agree!!!) BUT... Let us NOT be foolish I am saying. You really think somebody restomodding any classic car with an ICE crate motor, you actually think that vision will be compensated back? On certain classics...yes. But that also depends on the whole package... Common man! You rreally think an ecoboosted 4 cycluinder Eleanor will be of value to somebody in where the original modder will not only clain his money back, but make a profit too? Now...its a classic 1967 Mustang to which some idiot WILL pay huge money for regardles if it may be electrified or 4 cylinder ecoboosted. MAYBE... But you actually think an ecoboosted 4 cylinder 1966 Galaxie is worth a lot of money? More so than an electrified one with the Mach E powertrain? You tell me... You set me in my place and tell me modding cars are not usually money pits and losers and you tell me that a state of the art, brand new e-motor is more akin to an ecoboosted 4 cylinder as opposed to a 5.2 liter supercharged Predator. You tell me that somebody out there will prefer to drive in an ecoboosted 1969 Mecury Cougar rather than a Predator swapped or Mach E swapped one... But yeah... JUST because one phoquing metric is the same as the other...all other points Ive made are invalid GTFO!!!

310hp vs 281hp 350tq vs 317tq

These are just soooo ugly to me. Having driven them when they first came out the powertrains are inadequate for luxury vehicles... barely adequate for regular vehicles.

Much better options out there for less coin and with better performance where it’s needed (like the highway). $50K for a overdressed RAV4 with a CVT is just obscene.

Its official. My partnership at the restaurant is slowly winding down and coming to an end. Ill be taking over as sole owner during the course of this year, but I will probably be selling it myself this year or next. My partner had a family situation. A very terrible thing to happen to him as a husband... He is devastated about this and has tried to work it out with his wife, but he just cant. Cant trust her. But then with all that and he cant manage his business life also. I begged him to stay on because I need him at the store. I cant live without him. He completes me at the restaurant. I told him to take as much time as he wants away from the restaurant. But for him to come back... Yeah...he is my husband at the restaurant. He keeps ME in check. Just as how I keep him in check. We make a perfect couple running it. So with that bombshell, I am the sole owner of a soon to be sold hot dog joint.