I'll find out just what I bought this weekend

[DCurrent]

Well, my carma must be good.

Our local old time machine shop is nearby and I usually go by and clean his lot with my snowplow as a favor. After all, he always drops whatever he's doing and takes care of my problems right on the spot. Never charges much. Even lets me use his equipment to reline e brakes.

I went in and told him about this car and he told me he'd overhauled a 49 Plymouth motor about 4 years ago. Guy left a deposit to do it and never came back. If I wanted it, I could have it. No charge!

Well, hell yes!

Looks like the old girl will travel again.

Give me a break!! Are you kidding me? This is starting to sound like one of those reality TV shows that are just too good to be true, and we find out it was all just a set up.

[austinsailor]

Huh?? 

[BobT-47P15]

I think he was taking note of your good fortune.........how often do ya find a decent, cheap car then a good motor for

it right in your own back yard????

[DCurrent]

I was just kidding. No harm meant. I am curious when Kim Kardashian is going to make her appearance though. LOL

[austinsailor]

I'll have to say, I'm not a fan of all this reality stuff.  I'd rather watch a story of two real guys doing their best to get an old car running than all this high dollar, fake stuff on the shows mentioned in a lot of these threads. Taking an old car, working their way through the various problem of getting the brakes braking, an old motor restarted and going after sitting for years and getting it driveable is far more real and entertaining.  

 

With real life interfering and trying to keep some businesses afloat and keeping Mama happy, I don't have enough time to work on one very much. But - I hope to fit this in somewhere. If I get lucky, maybe I can get the basics done after pulling the old wiring out of my 53 Plymouth hardtop while waiting for the new set to appear.  Sometime this spring I should have it at least with a running motor. With a lot of luck, and if I can spare a few more hundred $, maybe have the brakes working.

 

The difference in the "Reality" shows is they aren't real, they aren't financially sustainable, and you know the deal is funded by advertisers, not someones commitment and discretionary spending like we have to live with.  Ours are real, done as we find bits of time away from the other "real" things we have to deal with, and a few extra dollars.  Not to mention, after waiting sometimes a long time to locate the parts we need. There is no way we could pull an old car out of the scrap yard, spend a week and get it running reliably, stopping safely, the wiring up to snuff and looking nice in a week no matter how much money we had. And, as I mentioned above, when you got done, you'd have a car worth half what you had in it. How many times would a "real" person do that?  Once, if you liked the car.  A second or third, not likely.

[RobertKB]

A second for  sure. Did my '38 for more than it's worth and doing my '51 Dodge D39 (Canadian) business coupe right now for more than I could buy one that is already done. I just like working on them. Next one, if there is one, will either be a good original or a survivor truck just for fun. Only live once, unless you believe in reincarnation, and you gotta enjoy the journey.