....OK, so I was off a teeny tiny $100K plus or minus another $100K, on my project cost guesstimate.....watching too many cheap assed home improvement shows with the wife....has my entire outlook on car projects distorted!!! 
I also think that being a solely Mangusta owner has given me a jaded edge at looking at our cars...with the GOose being so low a survivor from original production, putting any of the remains back on the road for one of those cars is great and I spent/spend a lot of time encouraging others to do so! Now, Goose is out of the picture and owning a Pantera leaves me with some of the same thinking still in the picture!
Then there's the ol' "ya can fix anything" way of thinking too, which I think my father instilled in me a bit!!!! Even rust! 
Hate rust.......
Good comments by all!!!
Merry Christmas!!!!
Steve