Hi list,
Well now that is quite a definition. It seems to me
all old cars are project cars. Everyone that I have
owned needed some type of work. If nothing else
polishing and cleaning can be on heck of a project.
My 55 is nice but always needs more. My street rod
could be called finished, but??? I always have a new
idea. Reversed doors, chop the top, french the head
lights, remove the door handles and washing and waxing
are all healthy projects at my age. My new PT would
look good with a white ghost flame! It never ends!
Even the yard and flower beds are a project.
RC Billings, Montanaaaaaaa
--- David.Whitney@xxxxxxxx wrote: >
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>
>
> Hello, fellow Imperial enthusiasts --
>
> In the interest of getting people excited about
> reading their IML digests
> again while continuing to wade through endless to
> and fro regarding milky
> taillights and leaf spring separators, I would like
> to initiate on the
> topic of the Project (up suitably ominous music from
> background).
>
> Topic 1: What is and is not a "project car"?
>
> Does it have to be a 5? Is it a sliding scale
> depending on the buyer's
> skill and resources? Does it depend on how much time
> it takes to finish?
>
> Are there lines you cross that determine the
> difference between fixer upper
> and project? Body rust? Frame rust? Engine bottom
> end? Tranny rebuild?
>
> Is it the ratio of total cost after purchase to
> purchase price? Buy a car
> for $500 and spend $3000 afterward?
>
> Is it where you stop? If you bring it up to a 3 is
> it still a project, or
> does it become a project once you start moving
> toward show quality?
>
> My car was a solid 3 minus going on 4 when I found
> it. My goal was to make
> it my daily driver. To me, that's a project.
> Happily, bonuses descended on
> us from above and I was able to get the entire
> project finished in a month
> from acquisition to 3 plus fully trimmed. I spent
> $800 to buy the car and
> $2200 in parts, labor and government fees and taxes.
> In other economic
> circumstances it may have taken half a year or more
> to do piecemeal.
>
> Before and after photos coming as soon as I get the
> hood ornament and the
> wire wheel center caps installed. She's not
> perfect, but she's good enough
> for a 100-mile round trip commute and holds her own,
> appearance-wise,
> against anything on the road.
>
> -- David
>
> '91 K-Imperial
> -- you know your car is cool when your 17-year-old
> daughter wants to drive
> it
>
>
>
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