Cars like the ones in this thread are my idea of a daily driver, so I'm apparently not a normal person. I've tried and tried to just live with the idea of fixing our '77 up to be only clean and solid, but far from perfect, but then I start working on something, and before I know it, I'm waxing the inside of wheel wells, or spending over a year collecting the finest bits and pieces I can drag out of the salvage yards. Several times, I've bought a part only to find one slightly nicer a few months later, so of course, I buy another and another, all in the name of obtaining perfection.
I'm just the kind of nut job that would spend $20k on one of those cars if it weren't for the fact that I also enjoy the work that it takes to make a car that nice, so buying one that was already perfect would be robbing me of a sense of accomplishment. I like rolling my own.
