I have had several folks - including on here, "challenge" me to try having a car which is actually painted and with an interior.
Typical is "Bob" (35 Terraplane) who said "Why not try it - you might find you like it'
Well - it looks like I will be taking one of my projects to a builder who habitually winds up in the Cobo Hall "Great 8"
I have NO idea how long it will take, or what it will cost right now as he has not yet seen it, so we cannot even begin to discuss those details, but he has agreed to take it on.
What will be interesting is: "THEN what will I do with the thing?"
Selling it will not likely be an option as I'd guess that it will cost between 60,000 to 100,000 (I am NOT gonna go for a Ridler contender!) and likely could only be subsequently sold in the $25,000 range. Selling it would force me to admit that I just lost a ton of $$$$ on it, and would reveal just HOW MUCH I lost! I'd rather not know THAT!
I strongly suspect that I will have zero interest in actually DRIVING it.
I sorta suspect that I will totally lose interest in it when it's done and just park it back in the back yard where it is now, to let the sun, wind, dust, mice and etc play with it some more.
Maybe I'll park it under shelter in the shop
I'll probably enter a few shows with it for a year or so - preferably "no-trophy" type shows, but I despise "trailer queens" so I suspect I'll despise this car, too.
Right now it has been sitting in the yard for 7 years. It was "mint" when I got it, with new paint and new interior, needing only wiring and brakes to be "done". As a central interior California car all its life it had zero rust.
Well now, after 7 years of sitting in the yard, (along with my '28 Model A, my '56 F100, my '37 Dodge, my '80 GMC, my '76 Poncho, etc) the paint has mostly crazed and peeled off and there are mice families living in it. I bought a wring harness and got most of the parts for the brakes when I got the car, and piled those "required parts" inside it.
When I got it, I was starting to build my shop, so I had no place to put it under shelter. (Maybe this year I'll actually get the shop done enough to put some of my cars in it?)
This oughta be interesting......
Typical is "Bob" (35 Terraplane) who said "Why not try it - you might find you like it'
Well - it looks like I will be taking one of my projects to a builder who habitually winds up in the Cobo Hall "Great 8"
I have NO idea how long it will take, or what it will cost right now as he has not yet seen it, so we cannot even begin to discuss those details, but he has agreed to take it on.
What will be interesting is: "THEN what will I do with the thing?"
Selling it will not likely be an option as I'd guess that it will cost between 60,000 to 100,000 (I am NOT gonna go for a Ridler contender!) and likely could only be subsequently sold in the $25,000 range. Selling it would force me to admit that I just lost a ton of $$$$ on it, and would reveal just HOW MUCH I lost! I'd rather not know THAT!
I strongly suspect that I will have zero interest in actually DRIVING it.
I sorta suspect that I will totally lose interest in it when it's done and just park it back in the back yard where it is now, to let the sun, wind, dust, mice and etc play with it some more.
Maybe I'll park it under shelter in the shop
I'll probably enter a few shows with it for a year or so - preferably "no-trophy" type shows, but I despise "trailer queens" so I suspect I'll despise this car, too.
Right now it has been sitting in the yard for 7 years. It was "mint" when I got it, with new paint and new interior, needing only wiring and brakes to be "done". As a central interior California car all its life it had zero rust.
Well now, after 7 years of sitting in the yard, (along with my '28 Model A, my '56 F100, my '37 Dodge, my '80 GMC, my '76 Poncho, etc) the paint has mostly crazed and peeled off and there are mice families living in it. I bought a wring harness and got most of the parts for the brakes when I got the car, and piled those "required parts" inside it.
When I got it, I was starting to build my shop, so I had no place to put it under shelter. (Maybe this year I'll actually get the shop done enough to put some of my cars in it?)
This oughta be interesting......