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For MANY hobbyists; it's about the journey, not the destination.

As far as that rust bucket GTO goes for me and my opinion on it. If I was living in an area where the car crazy hobby is not shut down for any amount of time due to winter, I would be doing these kinds of projects ALL THE TIME!!! (If I had the mechanic and body shop/metal forming and metal welding skills necessary for that kind of hobby that is. But I would work soooo hard to acquire these skills. ) I would have acquired and bought all the necessary equipment and tools and would have had the garage space and land to do so. English wheels and welding equipment and ladder frame straighteners and even 3D printers, etc... I would restore cars to be Concours D'Elegance winners and others, just to be nice, clean, road worthy used vehicles. Not necessarily, garage queen, expensive restomodded classics meant for rich collector...but fixer uppers that could get another solid use out of them. I dunno this guy's channel and what he does, but Id take on this project. Id be using donor cars to fix her up from the other junkered cars Id have laying around. And not in the way that junkered cars have been abandoned in a junk yard. But jukered cars that have been cleaned up before hand aand waiting to be used in one way or other. Keep costs as low as possible. If the machinery and equipment that Id be using in my garage had been paid for, then its just my time, really, that would be the biggest cost to do a project like that. And maybe this is his exact same scenario that he is in that I just explained.

Yup, I know you think it is worth it but it will not ever be an original goat, just a piece of metal to be recycled at this point. Probably 99.9% of that body will have to be replaced with aftermarket parts, I would even question the engine. Frame probably will have to be replaced due to the extreme rust. This is total lunacy to waste time and money on it. Should have been crushed. Yup, let the flames begin as I will never see this as a realistic restore auto in this condition. One for @balthazar

Billy

250 GTO One of the only Ferrari's I actually kinda like.