A cheap modified car. My view of a project is probably different than what you're used to. It would be better for me to get a car that already has a motor swap and some other basic hard parts and pay an extra $2000 for it then it would be to by a super clean old lady's car. If I bought the old ladies car I would end up spending more than $2000 bucks on the motor and I'd still end up doing all the same work. By project I mean a project race car, not a project show car. I could care less about the old lady's perfect paint and interior. The interior would be gone the day I got it, it's going to get painted anyway, the suspension is going to be replaced (not just coilover, fully replaced) the motor is going to be torn down and built, etc etc.