Parting out a car is a long-term full-time job, especially
with the labor to remove carefully & ship the parts...and
when the goodies are sold off, you are left with a 'mess'
on your hands, and sitting....on your property.
Best to sell the entire car to a salvor, if you are not
committed to its restoration.
The interior colors you describe are the "Neutral" scheme.
If the roof is collapsed, restoring it with the correct headliner
material (if it is not recoverable) will be difficult and expensive to
accomplish.
Virtually all of the car's mechanics will need to be refurbished
or replaced, as will its interior (probably).
You have a potentially very rewarding multi-year (and, ultimately)
mega-buk-expensive hobby project, with this non-driveable car,
but, you already know this, from your existing collection of cars.
Your final costs will depend upon the amount of the mechanical
and body work that you can do, yourself.
If you can buy it and decide to restore it, the forwardlook.net
website can help you find the parts and/or subcontractors needed
to renovate your ride.
Good luck.
On 12/15/2013 1:34 PM, Bill Parker wrote:
We think that it is pink and white, but it was really hard to tell. The
interior is dark gold with a beige cloth, again not necessary accurate on
the cloth yet without better light. My '60 Saratoga has dark gold with a
darker tweed-ish cloth, hard to describe, but I think that the cloth on the
CRL is lighter colored. OK that probably confirms for me that it is a 361,
that's what I figured since the 383 of that year was an RB. Once he hears
the asking price, if it is within a figure he has in mind, he plans to take
the chance and do the work to retrieve it, figuring he can come out OK on
the parts if that is what is necessary once we can examine the bottom
regions so to speak.
Bill & Kathi Parker, South Central Indiana, harboring of bunch of old and
newer Mopars
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Eastern Sierra Adjustment Svc <
esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What color(s) was the interior?
White exterior, right?
the 361/4-bbl would have been standard equipment on the car.
No price discussion?
It's probably worth $5k.0 77.5k (max).
On 12/14/2013 8:18 PM, Bill Parker wrote:
After half an hour or so of conversation with the gentleman of the house,
whose wife is actually the inheritor (inheritrice?) of the '59 Custom
Royal
Lancer, and who it turns out was known to me as he ran a restaurant where
all us cops ate back in my early days as a cop, we carried our shovels,
brooms, and lights out to the remains of the barn. I did not take more
photos because it was already approaching dusk.
First the "bad" in addition to the circumstance of the barn collapsed
around the car:
The roof is somewhat caved and probably would have to be replaced for a
nice appearance, as I know it is difficult to work the roof sheet metal
back into factory form. But see the "good" below.
The hood, although we were able to unlatch and raise it, is rusted out in
the forward underhood structure, so that the outer skin up front is
flapping loose. But I presume any hood from a '59 of the same body would
suffice with the addition of the "feed scoop" ornament.
The driver's side frame is mired in frozen mud, as is the front part of
the
passenger side, and we could not see if it is still solid. The part we
could see, further back on the passenger side, looked OK..
The passenger side forward part of the passenger compartment is seriously
rusted out. It turns out that the barn collapsed over 20 years ago, and
the car itself lilts to the right front corner due to the sloped lay of
the
dirt floor, so all water found its way to that right front corner of the
passenger compartment, and the floor, hinge bulkhead, lower cowl
structure,
and of course that area of the front fender, are badly damaged. The
passenger door lower structure is gone although the outer skin, while
flapping loose, is still all there. We figure that a donor from any body
style would supply that lower inner structure to repair the door if a
proper 2 door hardtop door proved elusive. The only proper fix of the
bulkhead structure IMHO would be to obtain this section of structure from
a
donor car and weld it in. My buddy is a certified welder and although I'm
not certified, I am also skilled, so we felt we could accomplish this.
The passenger door is down about 1/2" at the front edge, and about 1 1/2
inch at the latch sill. By wrestling it up into position we were able to
latch it and keep things together.
The "good":
The edge of the roof structure, all around, appears to be undamaged,
straight, and in the correct shape. Hard to believe given the joists
laying over it. All glass is intact and from what we could see with the
lights, the windshield is not even fogged.
The left side of the passenger compartment is solid, the door works
correctly, etc. The floor actually felt solid everywhere but that other
front corner.
Every piece of exterior trim is present except one tail light assembly,
that on the upper right. The large gold colored "lancers" on the front
fenders, the Custom Royal plates, the upper and lower spears, and the
chrome roof surround all look cleanable and useable. The grill work and
heavy chrome pieces that outline the fender eyebrows, and the taillight
pods, are all there except for that right upper pod, but there is mild
pitting in the grill work (those are awesome heavy pieces aren't they...),
on the hood ornament, and heavier pitting in the pods. All the metal trim
is present and straight on the inner door panels although the upholstery
itself is of course getting ragged.
The dash pad amazingly is nice and smooth except for the far right corner.
The "informational": The engine is a B, not an RB, so I would presume a
361, and a single four barrel carb. The trans is a torqueflite based on
the 1-2-D buttons. The car is filthy but may be the pale pink and white
combo, with an interior consisting of dark gold vinyl, beige-ish cloth,
and
what seems to be a perforated looking heavy cloth insert in the door
panels.
Oh yeah, the driver's seat is swivel. My bud had a fine time swiveling
back and forth several times. He's just a young whippersnapper being only
50, and he acted like a kid on a fountain stool there for a minute.
The lady has not completed her research so we are no closer to knowing
what
it might take for him to acquire the car, but he is not deterred by our
examination. At this point he would still like to buy the car and aim for
a #3 restoration by him and me and enjoy driving it. I have some emails
from list members concerning parts if it should come to be parted out and
I
will keep those, but that isn't the plan at least not yet.
Bill & Kathi Parker, South Central Indiana, harboring of bunch of old and
newer Mopars
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