great thread Greg.
You finished the car and now you want to sell it ???
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XS22J8R
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I am conflicted on the subject, because I did a ground up OE restoration on my high school ride, a T/A Challenger, that got completed after a 16+ year cluster including years in restoration shop jail in another state, and a less than satisfactory experience after I moved the project to a shop closer to complete body and paint, along with some of the heavier lift reassembly items like the K frame/engine assembly and rear end.
When I went out to retrieve it after that work was done, with someone with a trailer I'd enlisted to help, the paint got damaged when we were unloading the car and the winch failed, a fender scraped against a ramp cable.
Got that fixed, got it put together, and started for the first time just a week before MCACN. Hired a local car hauler to get it there for me, and at setup, I noticed a scuff on the stripe, that he denies he did, but we'll never know for sure.
Which is one reason I get scared to do much with it, fearing it gets damaged again.
Since then its been out to some shows but I don't do much with it, and I feel bad it became a garage queen. It's too nice to drive much, not to mention I'm no fan of the manual steering or the way my left leg bangs the steering wheel when I use the clutch.
I go to cruise nights all the time in our too short season here, and local shows. Over the years I figured out how I like to roll, and that is in my convertible with the top down, or in more recent years since I bought the Magnum, in it with the T Tops off.
I actually have 2 six pack hardtops, and they both mostly just sit. The other one's in storage and I'd like to sell but I got burned out on my failed efforts trying to do that, so may end up owning it until I croak too.
I've owned my T/A since I was a teen so it has sentimental value. No financial motivation to sell it, not going to buying a boat or a plane or something I'd need to raise funds to get.
So maybe it should go to a better caretaker, but I can't see ever selling it even if I should. Gotta get motivated and get it out of the garage this year dammit!!!
When I went out to retrieve it after that work was done, with someone with a trailer I'd enlisted to help, the paint got damaged when we were unloading the car and the winch failed, a fender scraped against a ramp cable.
Got that fixed, got it put together, and started for the first time just a week before MCACN. Hired a local car hauler to get it there for me, and at setup, I noticed a scuff on the stripe, that he denies he did, but we'll never know for sure.
Which is one reason I get scared to do much with it, fearing it gets damaged again.
Since then its been out to some shows but I don't do much with it, and I feel bad it became a garage queen. It's too nice to drive much, not to mention I'm no fan of the manual steering or the way my left leg bangs the steering wheel when I use the clutch.
I go to cruise nights all the time in our too short season here, and local shows. Over the years I figured out how I like to roll, and that is in my convertible with the top down, or in more recent years since I bought the Magnum, in it with the T Tops off.
I actually have 2 six pack hardtops, and they both mostly just sit. The other one's in storage and I'd like to sell but I got burned out on my failed efforts trying to do that, so may end up owning it until I croak too.
I've owned my T/A since I was a teen so it has sentimental value. No financial motivation to sell it, not going to buying a boat or a plane or something I'd need to raise funds to get.
So maybe it should go to a better caretaker, but I can't see ever selling it even if I should. Gotta get motivated and get it out of the garage this year dammit!!!
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