the Tony Z story is about a self built car--his largest expense was $35000 for a 401 motor built by a nascar engine builder that was known for racing AMC's in his youth---in fact Tony was so broke on his first race he had to borrow a set of nascar road course tires---so i would imagine he did his car for way less than $100,000---maybe even less than $50,000....bob (639)