RE: old mopars drying up?

[Jeff Adams <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I liked your response Dooner... pretty clever at the end. I've always 
looked at my Polara as a piece of history, wondered where it has been, 
how many family vacations, etc. Sometimes I think it sure would be 
easier and cheaper to build a late model muscle car, but then I think it 
would look just like a lot of other cars on the road. Every time I drive 
mine, I either get a thumbs up or looks from people on the street. I see 
myself as just the current caretake of the car (as mentioned here 
before) and someday when I can no longer drive it, I hope the next owner 
will look at it the same way. I agree that for the most part we are the 
last generation to look at these cars the way we do, and that's a shame. 
The more of these old cars we pull from the weeds and save, the more of 
them on the street, and hopefully the odds of getting some younger 
people's attention will go up. But even if that's not the case, we have 
saved some history, shared, and enjoyed it through OUR lives, and that's 
made the whole trip worthwhile to me! Fell off my soapbox, so I guess 
I'm done now. 

Harold Dooner Funderburk wrote:
> 
> This is just my opinion on ALL old cars dying out.
> 
> Everybody always seems to go the show car or original (worth more $$$) 
> route. Not too many people build drivers. I want mine for driving, not 
> for 
> show or resale.
> Also, I feel that the original route is bad. Let's just say, that one of 
> you 
> guys come up with a bad heart. The doctor says he can easily fix/replace 
> it. 
> You can either choose one of the same year model (same age as you, just 
> taken care of a little better), or you can get a younger, more powerful 
> one, 
> that will last a long time. Which would you choose? Don't you think, if 
> that 
> old car could talk, she would choose the younger more powerful one?
> Then after the doctor fixes you, do you want to go home and have a great 
> 
> life, OR do you want to be put in a nursing home where you and your 
> fixes 
> can just sit there and wither away. I don't think that old car would 
> just 
> choose to be locked in the garage.
> 
> I LOVE old cars. Not for the history, but for the style. New cars just 
> don't 
> have the style that old cars have (why do you think they are trying to 
> make 
> Challengers and Camaros look so much like the old ones). But the old 
> cars 
> don't have the technology that new cars do. So take an old stylish car 
> and 
> modernize it. Go with fuel injection, six speed automatic, four wheel 
> disc 
> brakes, electric fan and fuel pump, and any other modern device you can 
> get 
> on her. Then drive her every chance you get. Drive her around the world 
> if 
> you can. Show her that you really love her.
> And you can be some old wrinkly camel smokin' fart, some fat young 
> pimple 
> faced kid, OR anything in between,...... but if you are driving an old 
> car, 
> you got style.
> 
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> entertain 
> you, OR to get you to thinking for yourself.
> 
> Thank you for listening,
> Dooner
> 
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> From: <chymar01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:39 PM
> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: old mopars drying up?
> 
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I've noticed that as well. Especially the last two years or so.
> > I used to find stuff on a pretty regular basis(I'm in NJ), but the finds 
> > 
> > have dropped dramatically. I think we lost quite a few rebuildables when 
> > 
> > the scrap prices shot up two years ago. Here it was over $16/100lbs. I 
> > picked up an '87 Ramcharger, tok off the bumpers, radiator, A/C 
> > compressor 
> > and evaporator, wheels and a bunch of other stuff and still got nearly 
> > $500 for scrap. One of the local junkyards closed to daily business and 
> > started clearing out the old stuff and anything heavily picked over. 
> > They 
> > made 35k in a month.
> > Seems all I can find now are really nice, expensive cars or completely 
> > trashed projects not worth resurrecting.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Neal" <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "1962to1965mopars" <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 10:19:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: old mopars drying up?
> >
> >
> > Hi all, I have been noticing that here locally there just doesnt seem
> > to be that many old mopars ( or musclecars period) advertised as much
> > or as often as five years ago. Seems like the various craigslists
> > cities here in oregon used to offer up all sorts of mopars, but
> > lately over the last couple years, u just don't see that much
> > advertised. Can we assume that all the old Mopars have been harvested
> > or is the economy making people play their cards close to the chest
> > and hold out on selling hoping for a better day?
> > You guys used to tease me aBOUT HOW MANY mOPARS i WOULD FIND IN
> > OREGON HERE FOR SALE, some of which I bought, but now its a rare day.
> > Just wondering if you guys see this drying up in other parts of
> > the country as well
> > neal zimmerman, eugene oregon
> >
> >
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Jeff Adams
64 Polara


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