Wow....I was hoping it would be under $40k.....

so much for that idea. 

Yeah its a high price, and yeah you can buy a pretty nice Benz for the same price. But can you actually stand out in the parking lot with all the other Benz, Porshes, and other high priced luxury cars? I agree with MPH. Why buy something everyone else sees everyday? Be different, drive something cool, something fast, and something unique. You cannot go to your local restoration shop and build a BAN3 for anything less than 100k. Not with a 700+ hp LS7, all the upgrades, the labor going into the body work, the hard part of finding a usable body, and have a car that can be daily driven. Not to mention a car you can thrash everytime you leave the redlight. Hell you can't got to any dealership and buy a new car with 700 horsepower for 100k. You won't see a Benz owner raising hell down a country road and blowing the tires off through the first 3 gears. Year One knows how to build a great car, and knows how to build a car that can be driven and driven hard. I go to all of their shows that I can, and every year they keep coming up with new ways to improve on Detroit's old technology.  As soon as I win the lotto, the first thing i am doing is I am driving 45 minutes northeast to Year One's headquarters to pick up my BAN3. The hell with Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and everything else you see at the local Starbucks. I'm rolling in an upgraded piece of American and movie history. The Bandit Trans Am.

But you can get the Pontiac 535 IA II Aluminum block in the BAN III Thats pushing 650 +  hp on pump gas. If I had the $$$$$$$$$$$ thats for me--PONTIAC POWER all the way .