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Offline Nypsy

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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #60 on: November 26, 2012, 11:24:22 AM »
Dream of restoring-building-driving one o these:

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perhaps even a resto paint job..
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #61 on: November 26, 2012, 12:01:19 PM »
my first car was a 1960 mercury marquis 2 door and is now slowly rotting into the ground behind my parents home waiting for time and money for a resto


I would also love to get ahold of a 1939 or 1940 plymouth business coupe
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #62 on: November 26, 2012, 01:15:58 PM »
My Dad has a 53 Ford that looks like it just came off the show room floor, except for the Offenhauser heads and blower on the flat head V-8, plus a few other tidbits in the engine bay.  Runs pretty good.
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #63 on: November 26, 2012, 03:19:26 PM »
My Challenger had the 340 with the 727 slap stick shifter......would love to get another, one day so I guess that would be my answer to the OP

the day I brought it home
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crashed it looking for my missing daughter (The only time I crashed it)
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met a MOPAR guy he did the work on the front end.....he charged me 500$....... :O
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 this was taken at chryslers at carlisle...you can see mine in the background
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it was unbreakable......wasn't the absolutely fastest off the line, it had I think 289 gears in it......but it would do 150 all day long....

nothing have I seen could take what that 340/727 combo could deal with, when I say I put it to the test....you can be sure that is exactly what I did with it.....

man I wish I knew then what I know now.
4th picture down. Signs in the background say "Child's Plaza" and "Adult book and video store"

Am I the only one who finds that slightly suspicious?

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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #64 on: November 26, 2012, 05:01:13 PM »
worked on an old ladys house out in the stick here in vermont a couple years back.  The guy I was working with and I were talking cars, and she comes walking over and asked us if we liked cars, so of course we were like YA.  she takes us on a walk to this barn that looked like it was going to fall over any second, I wouldnt even store a wheel barrow in it.  We had to open the doors and there was a tarp covering something.  She tells us to pull the tarp off, so we started to take the tarp off and once we got the tarp off there sat a 1929 Ford rumbleseat.  MINT!!! you could eat off of the floors, the engine compartment didnt even have a spec of oil around inside.  She was the 3rd owner of it.  back in the early 30s her father bought it off of a family friend, she then inherited it from him. I was in SHOCK AND AWE at the sight of that.

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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #65 on: November 26, 2012, 05:16:51 PM »
worked on an old ladys house out in the stick here in vermont a couple years back.  The guy I was working with and I were talking cars, and she comes walking over and asked us if we liked cars, so of course we were like YA.  she takes us on a walk to this barn that looked like it was going to fall over any second, I wouldnt even store a wheel barrow in it.  We had to open the doors and there was a tarp covering something.  She tells us to pull the tarp off, so we started to take the tarp off and once we got the tarp off there sat a 1929 Ford rumbleseat.  MINT!!! you could eat off of the floors, the engine compartment didnt even have a spec of oil around inside.  She was the 3rd owner of it.  back in the early 30s her father bought it off of a family friend, she then inherited it from him. I was in SHOCK AND AWE at the sight of that.

 and you didn't try to buy it?
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #66 on: November 26, 2012, 05:23:44 PM »
 :rofl :rofl yeah right not being paid what we were being paid, her kids were already starting to fight over who was going to get it, we told her to sell it and treat herself to a good vacation to someplace where she had always wanted to go, instead of worrying about the problem it was going to cause when she passes away

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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #67 on: November 26, 2012, 05:28:45 PM »
:rofl :rofl yeah right not being paid what we were being paid, her kids were already starting to fight over who was going to get it, we told her to sell it and treat herself to a good vacation to someplace where she had always wanted to go, instead of worrying about the problem it was going to cause when she passes away

 THAT is/was awesome advice.  :aok
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #68 on: November 27, 2012, 07:08:15 PM »
Already have done two...

From this...


To This...




And from this...


To this...
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #69 on: November 27, 2012, 07:09:29 PM »
Already have done two...

From this...
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To This...
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And from this...
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To this...
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #70 on: November 27, 2012, 07:16:44 PM »
Didn't see the bus at Bug Jam, did you make it?
You may have seen me they had me driving a golf cart the whole show.

I was there till about noon but the bus didn't make it. I did a trany swap and the rebuilt unit I put in it was no good. First Bug Jam weekend my bus missed in 5 years.  :mad: Had to drive this down...
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #71 on: November 28, 2012, 11:50:43 AM »
4th picture down. Signs in the background say "Child's Plaza" and "Adult book and video store"

Am I the only one who finds that slightly suspicious?

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whats "suspicious" about it?

I was parked in front of the Tat shop I worked at.


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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #72 on: November 28, 2012, 02:02:21 PM »

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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
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Re: Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?
« Reply #74 on: November 28, 2012, 04:30:09 PM »
 :rock

what is it? looks a bit like a Holden version of an Opel ... Ascona? :headscratch:
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