I paid more then all so far, but didnt get it for a show piece. When the concept came out, I was in. I have another short block and have plans to bring the displacement up to 426 in the late fall or early winter. Far from an everyday driver, yet it will see street 99.9% of the time.
I am in the rare posistion to buy a car I can write off in more ways then one. I could not have done that with the manual transmission :-)