I could certainly never afford anything remotely close to the budget for this car. $90k could put several dream cars in my garage. Having a suitable garage would have to be a first priority!
If I was thinking about it I'd want to know that the changes to it would allow it to be driven hard for a few hundred miles in a day across some pretty rugged roads, something that a well maintained standard 1800 can take in its stride. The rear suspension rods and Panhard look neat but the bushings looked as if the compliance factors would be pretty uncompromising. NVH was a very inexact science when the 1800 and Amazon came out but the rubber bushings were adequate for fast touring on poor roads. Even standard sized modern poly bushings have negatives in the NVH department.
Perhaps the owner of this car can put 20k miles on it by this time next year and report back. Notes from a fast trip to New York and back via New Orleans would make interesting reading.
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