Old cars rotting away on your route?

[1BROWNWRENCH]

there's a lot of personal reward in the journey * things don't always have to be valued with a price tag

yes. automotive restoration projects can be very therapuetic...also aggravating and expensive. Similar to golfing at times, so i am told. there are worse ways you could spend your time and money. my father's social life is largely based on it and he has friends from all over the world because of it. without it he would be a virtual hermit

 

[Tiny Panda]

it was shocking to me how quickly cars start to rot there. hard winters and lots of salt. the gas prices were not amusing either.in my time it worked out to $4/gallon for super "benzin" and $3 for regular....and that was when the exchange rate was good! This was 1984, mind you.

Don't come over here now, close to $12 a gallon and that's the cheapest.

 

[serenity now]

gas was 35 cents per gal. when i started driving * i'm not old

 

[Brownslave688]

Not sure how much I can upload into one message. I'm going to do a separate post for each photo. This is all I could get photos of but there are around 100 cars. Guy thinks he's going to restore them all and sell as his retirement money.

 

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[texan]

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Not sure how much I can upload into one message. I'm going to do a separate post for each photo. This is all I could get photos of but there are around 100 cars. Guy thinks he's going to restore them all and sell as his retirement money.

How old is he?

 

[serenity now]

i see a Corvair under the barn * that's a rare bird now; can't remember when i have seen one running

 

[Brownslave688]

I would say he's in his 40's. he's a farmer so we all know he will do that until the day he dies. If I had to guess before he dies he will get 4-5 restored if he's lucky.

That's one estate auction ill be making it to come hell or high water. Lots of chevelles there and that's my dream project.

 

[brownmonster]

Looks like my driveway when all the kids are home. Rusted junk everywhere.

 

[tarbar66]

i see a Corvair under the barn * that's a rare bird now; can't remember when i have seen one running

My Dad used to restore Corvairs. He usually had 2 or 3 in the garage. He liked to find them in Florida in winter and would bring them North in the spring for his summer project. He liked the Florida ones because the bodies had little rust compared to the ones in Pa. When he worked for the Chevy garage he was the Corvair specialist. I remember my Mom voicing her displeasure when he would bring another one home from work that he bought for 2 or 3 hundred dollars in the mid 1960's. He called them the family vacation fund, he would fix them and sell them for double or triple what he paid. He called it easy money.

 

[moreluck]

The 3 brothers pooled their $$$$ to buy themselves a car..........they also offered rides to all their friends who also were attending Kent State. This car ended up versus a city bus........totalled the car. Luckily, injuries were fixable.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Dibs on the Javelin

 

[BSWALKS]

Dibs on the Javelin

Dibs on the barn & land. Always loved big old farms.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

My Dad used to restore Corvairs. He usually had 2 or 3 in the garage. He liked to find them in Florida in winter and would bring them North in the spring for his summer project. He liked the Florida ones because the bodies had little rust compared to the ones in Pa. When he worked for the Chevy garage he was the Corvair specialist. I remember my Mom voicing her displeasure when he would bring another one home from work that he bought for 2 or 3 hundred dollars in the mid 1960's. He called them the family vacation fund, he would fix them and sell them for double or triple what he paid. He called it easy money.

Ralph Nader owes his whole politcal career to that car. Knocking Ralphie, not the car.

 

[texan]

I would say he's in his 40's. he's a farmer so we all know he will do that until the day he dies. If I had to guess before he dies he will get 4-5 restored if he's lucky.

That's one estate auction ill be making it to come hell or high water. Lots of chevelles there and that's my dream project.

How many like that I have seen.

They will not let go of the dream, and then the next they know, they are 87 and
nothing got done. Sad.

 

[texan]

My Dad used to restore Corvairs. He usually had 2 or 3 in the garage. He liked to find them in Florida in winter and would bring them North in the spring for his summer project. He liked the Florida ones because the bodies had little rust compared to the ones in Pa. When he worked for the Chevy garage he was the Corvair specialist. I remember my Mom voicing her displeasure when he would bring another one home from work that he bought for 2 or 3 hundred dollars in the mid 1960's. He called them the family vacation fund, he would fix them and sell them for double or triple what he paid. He called it easy money.

One of many of our family cars was a Corvair. I was very young, but I remember a down poor, a low area
of the road was flooded with 1 1/2 foot of water and no one would go through.

My father gunned that Corvair, and right before he hit the water he turned off the engine.

It went right across. He started it on the other side and off we went.

They were like little motor boats.

 

[texan]

Dibs on the Javelin

It would be nice if it had a 401 in it.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

had no idea they (Corvair)were amphibious! 401s are awful rare.Just get a 390 and bore it out.Shorten the wheelbase and we'll make an AMX out of it
damn splint

note the rambler next to the corvair.that must be the oddball section