E30 - Project Cars Are a Terrible Idea… So Why Do We Keep Buying Them? | Ep. 30

Project cars start innocently enough.

Brakes. Suspension. Maybe paint.

Then the engine comes out, the car is stripped to bare metal, the budget disappears, and somehow another project car appears in the garage.

In Episode 30 of Shifted Opinions, Paul Kramer, Casey Parkin, and Dave Van Epps tackle the reality of project-car ownership—from their own Porsche builds to listener-submitted restoration disasters and expensive decisions.

Casey revisits his Porsche 914 project, including the brake failure that caused him to lose confidence in the car and the question of how much money makes sense to...