Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
Ok, I'm going to try this car here before eBay (where I will also do my usual video and underbody shots on a lift). It's your chance to score a deal because there are a few weekends worth of work I would do before selling it there, but honestly I'm trying to move some iron so I can concentrate on the Sundance project... And my minivan restoration, and my Mexican Ramcharger, and my house remodel, and.... you get the idea. Time is valuable to me right now. So if you're interested, let's talk about ugly things like price over PM. The number I seek is more than 5, well under 10.
Story: Saw this car on eBay in around 2003. At that time it had 28,000 miles and pretty crummy photos. I gambled, won it, flew out to Oakland, California, had huevos rancheros with the sellers, then drove it home along the coast, through Vegas, Phoenix, etc. Fixed a few little things while I owned it, then a friend wanted to buy it. I sold it to him with "first right of refusal", which he honored and I bought it back around 2014. By that point, there was no saving the dealer-installed vinyl top so I stripped it off and decided it looked bald. But I didn't want to put the vinyl back... Figuring the next owner might not want it. So I painted the roof satin black. Last year I did some more cleaning/fix up. (You'll see those pics below)
Stored it this winter in a warehouse. Prep consisted of removing the battery cable. Yesterday I reconnected it, cranked it for 5-6 seconds and fired it up. Been driving it around since with a big smile on my face. This is one of the best running, most original and overall nice cars I've owned. I had originally thought of popping out the 318 and replacing it with a spare 440 I have... creating an S/43 if you will. But its just such a nice survivor I couldn't bring myself to do it. It has no trouble keeping up with traffic and cruising 25 miles to work @ 80 all the way. It has disc brakes and an AM radio for listening to our one remaining Canadian music station (580 CKWW) and Dennis Prager. Let the photos begin...
Dash does have two splits near the center speaker. Sorry, manual vents.
That's the original white paint still showing...
More pics coming up...
Story: Saw this car on eBay in around 2003. At that time it had 28,000 miles and pretty crummy photos. I gambled, won it, flew out to Oakland, California, had huevos rancheros with the sellers, then drove it home along the coast, through Vegas, Phoenix, etc. Fixed a few little things while I owned it, then a friend wanted to buy it. I sold it to him with "first right of refusal", which he honored and I bought it back around 2014. By that point, there was no saving the dealer-installed vinyl top so I stripped it off and decided it looked bald. But I didn't want to put the vinyl back... Figuring the next owner might not want it. So I painted the roof satin black. Last year I did some more cleaning/fix up. (You'll see those pics below)
Stored it this winter in a warehouse. Prep consisted of removing the battery cable. Yesterday I reconnected it, cranked it for 5-6 seconds and fired it up. Been driving it around since with a big smile on my face. This is one of the best running, most original and overall nice cars I've owned. I had originally thought of popping out the 318 and replacing it with a spare 440 I have... creating an S/43 if you will. But its just such a nice survivor I couldn't bring myself to do it. It has no trouble keeping up with traffic and cruising 25 miles to work @ 80 all the way. It has disc brakes and an AM radio for listening to our one remaining Canadian music station (580 CKWW) and Dennis Prager. Let the photos begin...
Dash does have two splits near the center speaker. Sorry, manual vents.
That's the original white paint still showing...
More pics coming up...
I want it
