What you wished you never did to your "C".

Will do...

Have you reached out to a shop, or anyone in your area to finish up the body work?

I know its been sitting a while.
 
Just curious if anyone else did something they wished they never did or started with their C body. I'll start. I wish I never started messing with the body work on my 68 Newport convertible. I was diving it and having fun going to car shows, but it wasn't pretty. I should have known better than to work on my car with only a carport. What was I thinking? I am not Julian. It's been laid up for months now.

I wish I hadn't taken the word of the seller of my C. Virtually, nothing he said he did to improve the car was done. The valve cover gaskets he said he replaced, the oil / filter change, the new coolant, the rebuilt (twice) carburetor and the gas tank he said was cleaned and restored. . . None of this was done. The valve cover gaskets leak profusely onto the exhaust manifolds, the oil was black and dirty and the original pos Fram filter was still mounted, the coolant was pure rusty water, the gas tank was full of crud and leaking, and the rebuilt-twice carb has to be rebuilt. He said the transmission had been redone, and maybe this is true (I hope-a hope-a), because it shifts fine. . . Now I'm just waiting for the next shoe to drop. . .
 
I don't have many regrets for my 300. In hindsight, I might have started with a little better one, but then again, mine was gone through mechanically and I knew the previous owner well. I think I have a little too much $$ in it... but I have a lot of fun with it too.

Here's a pic from this past weekend.



One thing I've thought about and to some extent have some regrets about is not buying Stan's 67. The timing wasn't quite right for me financially, and I need another car like I need a hole in my head, but I could have done it.
 
I must say your car looks really bad *** in that picture though. Put a front bumper on and drive that sucker or as soon as possible - i can't tell if the windshield is in or not, but it looks good there :)

Thanks Bryan,The windshield is in now. Inching closer to being on the road also.
 
2 things: Wish I had not scratched the hell out of the passenger side rear quarter panel and 2: wished I had not carried the 8.75 third member in my trunk wrapped only in towels. On a big turn it rolled and dented the driver's side rear quarter panel. Sheesh!
 
[QUOTE="Snotty, wished I had not carried the 8.75 third member in my trunk wrapped only in towels. On a big turn it rolled and dented the driver's side rear quarter panel. Sheesh![/QUOTE]

That's what you need a wagon for......... :)
 
I have no regrets with Jazabelle. Although some of it is still a fog.....
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As arrived Nov 2011. Bought sight unseen.




NOW.....
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I have no regrets so far other than not having covered storage for them. They don't build houses anymore with decent garages. I also regret not being able to work on them regularly but I'm sure many of us suffer from that. Ask me in another year and I'll likely say different.
 
The only regret I have with Goldie is having a guy that has probably installed several hundred Corvette top install mine. I am now guessing he has never installed a c-body top. Not terrible but has issue, he scratched my paint and stripped some bolts on the latch.

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Sold it... well not really a C... 1960 New Yorker 2 door... 18 years old, driving a 1974 Imperial that was pretty rough around the edges and purchased pre-wrecked, had to wait around 9 months for the title to clear a silly issue... by that time I was too broke to do anything at all, so I gave it to a friends father who was trying to start a restoration business.

A few years later I tried to buy it back. and just missed it. The NY was in the condition of a 25 year old car that parked outdoors, but not too rusty and no driveline.

I had already wrecked the 74 again by the time the 60 title cleared. The 74 had a bent lower control arm that I replaced with a used one, but had missed the bent stub frame... 2 ton port-o-power to install a 10 ton port-o-power to finally get 1 strut rod bolt into the wrong hole and under great tension... 18 yo dumbass, I drove it like that for some time... one day on a damp brick road I got silly and was fish tailing the rear (drifting for the younger ones) and lost control... I convinced myself that the bolt sheared and the control arm is way I hit the guard rail/curb, but in honest retrospect I think it may have happened the other way around... no matter now. I was a block away from a shop I had worked at, so when I pulled it onto their lot... they let me keep it there a few weeks and rehired me to work for them part time.

Traded the 74 Imperial for a 76 RR that was sitting in a horse field... I had a frame shop quote me $1200 just to dismantle and mount the Imperial... all the money in the world to me as I bought the Imp for $50 and a old drumset...
 
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