Steve, I agree with Mike, that you should just keep it going until you
either have time or your kids develop an interest.
I started restoring when I inherited my great grandmother's car. My father
and I restored it together, and it has a lot of special memories. We did it
when I had just finished school, and was working hard, but I made time in
the evenings and on the weekends. My dad was retired by then and he worked
on it during the days. The car was in at least as bad shape as your truck,
lots of cosmetic rust and body damage, but no real structural problems. We
sure learned a lot.
Leave it till your kids are bigger and you have more time. Just keep it
together in the meantime and start planning. Read everything you can.
Fifty percent of the restoration is figuring out what to do and how to do
it.
Regards,
Grant S.
54 3100 (mostly all there)
54 3100 (mostly not there)
55 1st 3100 (mostly rust)
Los Angeles, CA
Steve wrote:
>> I went down to a respectable restoration house that qouted me between 20
>> - 26 K for a full frame up restoration.
>>
>> Is their another route that I should look at so that I can pass this
>> wonderful good running truck onto my kids. It is unfortnate that I have
>> no time to do a restoration. Time barely allows me to fix some of the
>> little things..
Mike replied:
> It sounds as if you're kids are young, maybe best to keep'er going as is
>until they get old enough to grab an intrest in it themselves.
>
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