Equus Bass 770...its cool but 1/4 million?

     I was reading a fellow bloggers post  here about the Equus Bass 770, as well as one of my friends sending me a text message about the car earlier in the week, which both contributed to my interest of this car. The Equus Bass is a modern twist on what appears most similar to a Camaro to me. The car is rather light at 3640 lbs it has the ZR1 supercharged 6.2L making 640 bhp and 605 lb ft of torque. It has all the handling features you’d expect to find in a car the cost 1/4 of a million dollars. In all I like the car I think it’s an awesome car for the rich to spend their money on. For me the coolness stops there though. As I was talking to my friend about the amount of money to have a modern muscle car that one would be spending isn’t justifiable in my mind. I believe that I could build, obviously with some professional help, a better more bad a** muscle car for a fraction of the price. So that is what I decided to do. I "built" a cooler car just through internet pricing and all that, but it’s completely for fun I HAVE NOT really built this car. Anyways to start I would pick up something like this its perfect because it’s getting a new motor, new paint, new wheels & tires, new exhaust, drive train, etc. So to start I purchased a $5000 Ford Mustang. For labor estimates I am going to make a ball park estimate and  say labor is $40/ hr. I figure it’s a high enough number for the kind of work being done (essentially building a car) and to prove a point in why spending 250 thousand dollars is not necessary. I’m assuming the body of the car won’t need too much work. I figure a day in the body shop would be plenty for this car as I would help in prepping the car in any way I could removing as much as possible to reduce the number of labor hours for the body shop. Anyway a couple thousand dollar flat blue paint job along with this hood in flat black. Also a set of these wheels which I would powder coat flat black and wrap in BFGoodrich drag radials. So far without a motor or tranny or any drive components the car is estimated at $12000.

To be continued