Jeff
keep us posted
Lots of HISTORY HERE :congrats::congrats:
keep us posted
Lots of HISTORY HERE :congrats::congrats:
Most of us have very good reasons for doing this.Every time I hear this story I have to ask, “what the h**l were they thinking?”
It always goes like this, “I bought a perfectly good old hot rod that would have taken a long weekend and a couple hundred bucks to get on the road and been enjoying driving it for many years. But I thought I just had to restore it, so I took it apart so it couldn’t be enjoyed or appreciated by me or other folks for what it was. Will, I got busy or didn’t have the money or whatever and didn’t touch it for the next however many years that I otherwise could have been enjoying it had I not started "restoring" it. Now ever how many years later I’m going to spend a ton of money on it trying to make it look like it did when I bought it so I can finally get to enjoy it.”
Folks, please just put a battery in them and get the stock brakes working a little. Put a Indian blanket over the seat and a set of take off tires on them and get out and enjoy them. If they really need “restoring” let your grandkids do it after you’re gone. Besides, it takes fifty years to duplicate patina like that and most of us don’t have that long to wait to get them looking that way again !!!
Easy to say, but not always as easy as is might appear.Every time I hear this story I have to ask, “what the h**l were they thinking?”
It always goes like this, “I bought a perfectly good old hot rod that would have taken a long weekend and a couple hundred bucks to get on the road and been enjoying driving it for many years. But I thought I just had to restore it, so I took it apart so it couldn’t be enjoyed or appreciated by me or other folks for what it was. Will, I got busy or didn’t have the money or whatever and didn’t touch it for the next however many years that I otherwise could have been enjoying it had I not started "restoring" it. Now ever how many years later I’m going to spend a ton of money on it trying to make it look like it did when I bought it so I can finally get to enjoy it.”
Folks, please just put a battery in them and get the stock brakes working a little. Put a Indian blanket over the seat and a set of take off tires on them and get out and enjoy them. If they really need “restoring” let your grandkids do it after you’re gone. Besides, it takes fifty years to duplicate patina like that and most of us don’t have that long to wait to get them looking that way again !!!