Big Red will get 4 stock rims/wheel covers and 4 new whitewall tires...so bye bye baby moons and Hoosier tires...oh, and a new red sibling to share the garage.
Winter Plans For Your C Body
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oliver
Senior Member
I'm afraid not but right now I am just trying to come to terms with the idea of parting with the car; and more work needs to be done on this.
It will be a hard adjustment since I've never been C-bodiless; but it will increase my freedom and reduce my expenses, particularly storage.
Due to merger/reorganization, the writing is on the wall for losing my job within a year; a very undesirable situation at my age. When I'm a bum in the park near the 79th Street Boat Basin, I hope some will throw me chicken bones....., as I grunt and scratch.
In the meantime, I could use some help in the form of strong arguments in favor of letting go of the car. Thanks
67ragtop
Member
Interior interior interior got my new carpet now for the dash rehab
Drive it.....new engine at some point.
rapidtrans
Senior Member
I feel for you. I was layed off at 55. Thought I was set to retire from that company. Downside of a global fortune 500 co. is when they don’t like the tax rate or health ins. laws they can close-down here and move work overseas. A statement a co-worker made during our last day “nooner” always stuck with me. He said most all the guys layed off previously ended up doing better within a year. And that held true. I’ll never be a boss again but i have been able to keep busy. What has happened in my field is no younger engineers are entering the business and guys our age are in demand. Guys have retired only to contract back in after a long summer vacation!
Hopefully things go well and we’ll see back in the “C” body market.
Hopefully things go well and we’ll see back in the “C” body market.
JC68vert300
Senior Member
Those cars are so nice, I'm sure someone will jump on them right away!
JC68vert300
Senior Member
Just replaced all 5 bias ply tires with Copper Trendsetter 1" white wall radials. Just ordered a new trunk mat from Legendary, my old one is there but all cracked, so will give the trunk floor a good cleaning. My AM/FM seek and search radio is inop, so I have to decide on a rebuild or replacement. Heater core is bypassed, it started leaking, so want to replace that and get the A/C working. Get the passenger side window track reattached to the glass, just ordered the rivets from R/T specialties. There's more, but winter isn't that long.
Newport 66
Old Man with a Hat
project for the 66.
Wonderwagon
Well-Known Member
Put wheels back on
Rapidtrans777
Well-Known Member
Let's see...
Replace front subframe,
hang new front fenders,
replace the bench seat column shift interior with the bucket seat console GT interior I just picked up
Replace trunk pan
Get bumpers rechromed
Build and install the 440 sitting on my shop floor.
Or maybe I'll drive it a little longer cuz once I start it's gonna take a little more than a winter, lol
Replace front subframe,
hang new front fenders,
replace the bench seat column shift interior with the bucket seat console GT interior I just picked up
Replace trunk pan
Get bumpers rechromed
Build and install the 440 sitting on my shop floor.
Or maybe I'll drive it a little longer cuz once I start it's gonna take a little more than a winter, lol
I hope you are kidding about the boat basin thing...i'm trying to put my head around the population density where you are with a c body versus myself in suburban Minneapolis and the expense of storage, etc...I hope you can manage to keep it.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Seriously? All of them? At least one has to go to Idaho.
LatPeahy
Active Member
Fix oil and tranny leaks. Rebuild power steering pump. Adjust brakes. And hopefully put dual exhaust on it.
70Tom
Senior Member
Holy crap. You're selling all of them?
It will all be available .....
Last one standing stays.
If none sell, good for me
Last one standing stays.
If none sell, good for me
70Tom
Senior Member
Well, good luck, although I'm not entirely sure what that means in this situation. haha.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Aren't you jumping the gun?
oliver
Senior Member
Thanks, I hope so too. The 79th Street Boat Basin is a park in Manhattan where people can live on their boats year-round if they so wish. I don't have a boat but the park is quite pleasant. In any event, you are much better off where you are in suburban Minneapolis.
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