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Originally Posted by vwnate1
Yay, it's done for now .
These little weird problems are why no one wants to work on older vehicles ~ it takes a day or two to exceed the vehicle's dollar value .
On the other hand, I love sorting out weird problems as they are teaching moments .
My neighbor had a really clean 1971 Chevy 1/2 ton G - van he'd bought new, the sliding side door was rattling badly and hard to close, I told him if he didn't fix it soon it'd fall off, and sure enough ! .
I asked him if he wanted to fix it and he said no, I'll get $800 scrap value for it.....
Sad IMO as it ran *perfectly* and didn't require smog testing, the cloth interior was still pretty good .
Most of the time I'm like the old Studebaker guys : I'd rather fix than switch  |
I’ll bet he could sell it to someone for that much or more. Plenty of guys are into the “no smog” issue. My welder neighbor long had a ‘74 IIRC pick up that he was restoring. Had a small V-8, he said it was the holy grail of pick ups.
As for exceeding the value of the vehicle, I think keeping this running and cherrying up the body will not be a net loss. I get so many offers for this thing. Well, not cash amount offers but “do you want to sell it?“
And it’s always a question for me, how much would it cost me to get something else that is as useful? No way I’m going to buy a vehicle this good for $2000. But then I said the same thing about 16 months ago when I paid Ky $2000 to rebuild the tranny. It had lost all except low and reverse. I would sometimes drive it around at 15 or 20 miles an hour, 25 an hour when people were pressing me. This for a few months until it was rebuilt. It runs perfectly now. I’m pretty impressed, rebuilding an automatic tranny is like rocket science for me.