Brian what are you confused about?? You bought your car and added shit to it.. If you want to see a build page go to Ryan page. I mean hell I added my beam, new shifter, changed the motor up, (and you added wheels and a tranny, I guess that makes it a build) etc. You have made you car an extremely cool car, but dont act like you built it from the ground up.... Here is a picture I found of you car before you "built it".

Definite improvement for sure

You have no idea of the history of my car. When I got my car, it was boxes of parts. The picture you see there is after I got it back on the road and was towing it back to Houston (the car resided at my parents house in San Diego for about two years before I brought it to Houston in 2005, I used to work on it when I would go visit them on vacation and my dad (RIP) would do a little on it here and there in my absence. He and I were going to tow it back to Houston together the summer he got cancer and died, my wife and I towed it back after his funneral). When I got the car, there were no brakes (ie no brake lines, frozen wheel cylinders, etc), no steering, no wiring (ie completely yanked out, not so much as a single wire), the body was not connected to the pan, there was no interior, the motor was just a partially finished 40 horse long block sitting on the floor of the car that was missing the exhaust, intake, all the tin..., the transmission was only hap-hazardly attached to the chassis, the pedal cluster, e-brake, e-brake cables, gas tank, spedo, rear indicators, etc etc were out of the car, it had no mirors, the semaphores and all those parts were in boxes.... I've litterally had my hands on every bolt, nut and wire on that car. The car had been off the road for at least 10-15 years since someone had tore it apart and it changed hands a couple times like that before I got it. The only thing I didn't do to the car is any appreciable amount of body work, because it was in decent shape when I bought it (I did repare a rust spot near the base of the windshield though). Since I got the car, I wired it from scratch, ran all new brake lines, rebuilt the brakes, finished the 40 horse, installed it and got it running, put in an interior, restored the batwing (which had more cracks then the Mojave desert). Drove it like that for a while, then put in a CB 2" beam, lowered the rear, drove it like that a while, then put in a 4" Franklins beam, front disk brakes, dual circuit master cylinder, put on all new trim, including adding window trim, restored and installed pop-outs, had custom 6" smoothies made for it, made a custom gauge pannel for it, installed 5 gauges, installed the 4 pt harnesses, built a 180+ hp motor from scratch, painted the engine compartment, put in a 72-pass axu oil cooler with thermostatically controled fan and oil flow, had a custom tranny built, added a Kafer bar, tranny mid mount, made my own custom nose cone motor mount, ran an -8 AN hard line in the tunnel, plumed the entire car in AN lines/fittings, added a secondary terminal block to run the ignition, fuel pump, oil cooler fan, LM-1, etc, added a Mallory Hi-Fire digital box with e-Series coil, wired in an LM-1 wideband O2 sensor/data logging system with an Aux box... I'm sure there's other stuff I'm missing....
IMHO there is no comparison between what I did to my car and a buying finished, running/driving , show car and changing 2-3 things...
Sorry to see that you got all defensive about a simple question...

How long have you had your car?? You have to give people time and I am sure there will be many changes to come in the future if I keep the car. From what I heard from other people in the club you bought the car and added all bolt on stuff. I could give two shits about having a motor to brag about smoking other cars. I wasn't being defensive about what you said. You took what I said wrong and replied "like what I did? lol" I still say it's mostly bolt on..jk Oh and to answer you first question. I would buy another finished car in heart beat. This is fun if you ask me, go ahead with your reply.

Then I guess by your definition unless you do extinsive body work you haven't "built" a car? If putting a car together from boxes of parts doesn't constitute building a car, then I'm not sure what does.

Lmao.. You having fun yet. I guess I have built a car. "Not For Sale" Thanks for reminding me.

I'm always having a good time
That's okay, to each their own. For me the fun is about equally divided between *building* the car and driving it.

I would love to build a car "from the ground up, including paint/body work" I really just get to frustrated and don't enjoy it.

Paint and body is the only thing on my 55 I haven't tackled yet (although I have on several other cars), but it's in the plans for the future..
Not to mention more power, lol

You guys are funny