So I'm sitting on this huge stack of '63 Impala parts, but stuck in a rut on my project. Too many cars? I did what many other self-respecting hotrodders would do, I bought another one.
It doesn't seem like much of a way to get away from one project by getting into another just about like it, but hey, it can't fail.
A week or so after I got the 4 door sedan and parts out of the driveway, along comes this other car on Craigslist, so cheap I couldn't pass it up. Yet another '63 Impala, this one a much straighter, more solid car, in an interesting body style that I haven't owned too many of--a four door hardtop. While putting off the 2 door to work on the 4 door may seem like regression to many people, this one interested me because of the GF's kids. We're always going places, and always using the four door cars we have around here, so what if I had a cool 4 door? Besides, if I ended up not liking it in the early going, I could always part it out, right? That's how I talked myself into buying it.
It also interested me because my standards for it could be lower. It was incredibly cheap to buy, $350 delivered, and I felt like I could work on it without getting too involved, or spending too much money, or trying to solve the kinds of problems I was facing on the 2 door.
This 4 door hardtop showed up on CL for $600, and the ad says it has no engine or transmission, and no bumpers, but is 'solid'. I thought it was interesting, but I didn't jump right away. A couple of days later, the price had dropped to $550, and then to $350. I talked the seller into delivering it to me from about 60 miles away.
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