And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Had a Jamaica Blue Metallic Galaxy 500 4 door sedan in '66 with a 289, 3 on the tree fully synchronized....20 miles to the gallon at a time when nobody cared about gas mileage...great car on Saturday night at the drive in....Traded a '53 Mercury for that car.....wish I still had 'em both....
There are people who will take a wheel and build a whole car around it. All it takes is to go out and find the other parts. I subscribed to Hemmings Motor News many years ago and you'd see cars advertised as "90% complete." Someone pointed out that a Model 'A' had 5000 parts so 90% complete meant that you were only missing 500 parts.
They are still out there. I was going east on GA 110 in south GA this afternoon. I rounded this corner and a tarp had blown off a red car that was in a pole barn. It was a GT-350 front end that I recognized as I passed it. I turned around and went back where I stopped in the road to make sure what had seen. The a voiced yelled "it's a 66 GT-350 and it is not for sale". I ask him if I could see it and he pulled the tarp. It was missing the drivetrain which was in the process of getting rebuilt and it was missing the interior. The owner was on year 3 of his planned 6 month rebuild and he had about $15k of parts to put it back together after he had it blasted and all of the sheet metal repaired and repainted.
New cars do as well, after car payments end. There is a sweet spot where not much maintenance is required, but new(er) car parts can get expensive depending on the model.
Does that hand belong to a survivor or a victim?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the guy in the back seat might be able to lend a hand.
ReplyDeleteNope homeless guy in the back seat.
ReplyDeleteYup. Dirty Mike or one of the boys....
DeleteZombie apocalypse, run
ReplyDeleteHad a Jamaica Blue Metallic Galaxy 500 4 door sedan in '66 with a 289, 3 on the tree fully synchronized....20 miles to the gallon at a time when nobody cared about gas mileage...great car on Saturday night at the drive in....Traded a '53 Mercury for that car.....wish I still had 'em both....
ReplyDeleteThat's Thing in the back...
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of the movie where someone wakes up missing a kidney.
ReplyDeleteThere are people who will take a wheel and build a whole car around it. All it takes is to go out and find the other parts. I subscribed to Hemmings Motor News many years ago and you'd see cars advertised as "90% complete." Someone pointed out that a Model 'A' had 5000 parts so 90% complete meant that you were only missing 500 parts.
ReplyDeleteIt’s always the last 1% of missing parts that kills projects.
DeleteI'd have fun just dragging it out.
ReplyDeleteIt's A four door. Not worth the restoration cost.
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Love to pull that 64 out and get her running. 390FE and all.
ReplyDeleteThey are still out there. I was going east on GA 110 in south GA this afternoon. I rounded this corner and a tarp had blown off a red car that was in a pole barn. It was a GT-350 front end that I recognized as I passed it. I turned around and went back where I stopped in the road to make sure what had seen. The a voiced yelled "it's a 66 GT-350 and it is not for sale". I ask him if I could see it and he pulled the tarp. It was missing the drivetrain which was in the process of getting rebuilt and it was missing the interior. The owner was on year 3 of his planned 6 month rebuild and he had about $15k of parts to put it back together after he had it blasted and all of the sheet metal repaired and repainted.
ReplyDeleteOld cars require a steady diet of money.
ReplyDeleteNew cars do as well, after car payments end. There is a sweet spot where not much maintenance is required, but new(er) car parts can get expensive depending on the model.
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