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Originally Posted by Junkman
Many good cars have been turned into parts cars because someone started a "restoration". I have a friend that used to drive an MGA - until he took it apart. It has moved (in boxes) to each of his houses over the last 30 years.
Fix the floor then do the mechanicals as you can. If you get to the point where it only needs paint, paint it. The car will continue to drive for a long time if you only start the process of getting caught up on the service items.
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Dittos. I went hog wild on both the 240 and 300 and tore them apart as soon as they got home and fixed everything that wasn't purely cosmetic. Between them I have 8K tied up, just since September. Yeh they're both on the road and both pretty nice cars now, but they are exceptions to the resto rule.
I have four suzi GT750 waterbuffaloes that were someone else's basket cases and have been my basket cases for 5 years, likely will be fleabayed off a bit at a time. Bit off too big of a project. At least 4k involved collecting these and parts that haven't been used. Only saving grace is that GT750 parts have gone nuts in price and I can get my $$s back.
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Mine: '68 Corvette LS1/4L65E, 83 240D, 2000 GMC 4x4, 08 FLSTC Anniv
Hers: '72 Corvette 454/4spd, '99 MB SLK, '93 Metro vert, 78 240D, '92 Silverado, '65 Fjord Rustang, '59 Fjord Fairlane, '17 Slingshot.
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