barbee6043
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Please excuse what will probably end up being babble!
I's 74 and I know its time to slow down because I have to. Time to sell off some cars so the wife won't have to one day. Hard to get up and down and my wife is no spring chicken. Hard for the two of us to swap rearends.
I have a couple cars advertised over on the sale site, on FB Marketpace, and some FB B sites. Buts thats beside the point I guess.
I have hunted, saved, restored, sold, parted...you name since maybe '83. All Mopar. OK so one day I dragged home a 67 Camaro 30 years ago..it was cheap!! I always had my "keepers" that stayed around for however long but they always found a new and hopefully loving home. I have had just about them all. I learned all I could about these cares and how to do body/paint, mechanicals, some interior. Because I love learning, I love doing, love driving them, and seeing my results, and I could never justify a hobby that would end up costing me in the end.
I have made some perfect although I have never entered a car in any show. I have made just solid drivers. I have cleaned up some and got them running so the guy that wanted a good project could have such. Years ago I have parted cars that guys would give their left *** for today because no one wold give me a $ for it back then. Who wanted a 340 3 speed 73 Cuda anyway in '94?? for example.
I love the hunt but hate dealing with selling. I always price my cars what I think is fair to me and to the buyer. I want the buyer to love that car I sold him as I do. I know I need to always price higher. Everyone has to haggle. I buy projects that are priced for what I feel they are worth, so that takes finding the right car at the right price, hard these days. That way if and when I sell,I can sell it for what I consider a fair price. Sure everything costs more.
Back in about maybe 95 I bought a pair of 64 slant Savoys. I built one with a 440 4 speed 66 8 3/4 3:55 gear. Added some early B buckets a tach and I thought it was just so cool, way more cool than the 68-70 real Roadrunners Chargers, Bees I had all around. Yea back then those cars were cheap projects and not worth that much totally restored either but a $ went further too! I degress.
I wished many times had had kept that Savoy. Such cool and cheap fun! A good friend put me onto another such Savoy about a year and half ago. I had the intention of that being my last real build. Its a roller and I have done all the body/paint and I thing it turned out pretty good. I don't think I have it in me to finish it.
Back when I was a young guy, I wondered why my old dad would trip and stumble, get down and could hardly get back up... NOW I understand!!! but he was 45 when I was born and he had seen two wars. Well not seen... but fought in them. RIP dad.
I's 74 and I know its time to slow down because I have to. Time to sell off some cars so the wife won't have to one day. Hard to get up and down and my wife is no spring chicken. Hard for the two of us to swap rearends.
I have a couple cars advertised over on the sale site, on FB Marketpace, and some FB B sites. Buts thats beside the point I guess.
I have hunted, saved, restored, sold, parted...you name since maybe '83. All Mopar. OK so one day I dragged home a 67 Camaro 30 years ago..it was cheap!! I always had my "keepers" that stayed around for however long but they always found a new and hopefully loving home. I have had just about them all. I learned all I could about these cares and how to do body/paint, mechanicals, some interior. Because I love learning, I love doing, love driving them, and seeing my results, and I could never justify a hobby that would end up costing me in the end.
I have made some perfect although I have never entered a car in any show. I have made just solid drivers. I have cleaned up some and got them running so the guy that wanted a good project could have such. Years ago I have parted cars that guys would give their left *** for today because no one wold give me a $ for it back then. Who wanted a 340 3 speed 73 Cuda anyway in '94?? for example.
I love the hunt but hate dealing with selling. I always price my cars what I think is fair to me and to the buyer. I want the buyer to love that car I sold him as I do. I know I need to always price higher. Everyone has to haggle. I buy projects that are priced for what I feel they are worth, so that takes finding the right car at the right price, hard these days. That way if and when I sell,I can sell it for what I consider a fair price. Sure everything costs more.
Back in about maybe 95 I bought a pair of 64 slant Savoys. I built one with a 440 4 speed 66 8 3/4 3:55 gear. Added some early B buckets a tach and I thought it was just so cool, way more cool than the 68-70 real Roadrunners Chargers, Bees I had all around. Yea back then those cars were cheap projects and not worth that much totally restored either but a $ went further too! I degress.
I wished many times had had kept that Savoy. Such cool and cheap fun! A good friend put me onto another such Savoy about a year and half ago. I had the intention of that being my last real build. Its a roller and I have done all the body/paint and I thing it turned out pretty good. I don't think I have it in me to finish it.
Back when I was a young guy, I wondered why my old dad would trip and stumble, get down and could hardly get back up... NOW I understand!!! but he was 45 when I was born and he had seen two wars. Well not seen... but fought in them. RIP dad.