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From: Ryan Roswell Bird <BirdMan@myrealbox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 18:04:31 GMT
Gee, way to burst my bubble.  :)

This car is not going to be a daily driver, just a weekend 
toy, and a third car in a pinch.  I guess I could have 
bought a car that was already cleaned up, possibly for less 
than I'll put into the car, but where is the fun in that?  
I would love to just drive the car a bit, but it really 
does need to be cleaned up before it is driveable.  Adam 
did a good job of keeping the mechanics up, but he spent no 
$$$ on the looks of the car.  (Well, not much anyway.)

On a more sober note, the actual cost of the cosmetic fixes 
could easily put me into this car a bit more than I had 
anticipated.  Yet, this is possibly the one time in my life 
when I'll have the time to get my hands a bit dirty.  If 
the whole project falls on its face, I'll take it as a good 
lesson, (what was I thinking, anyway?) and move on.  If the 
project turns out, I'll have something worth holding on to 
for a while.

Thanks for the personal insite.

Ryan Bird
67 1600
Santa Ana, CA

> Sun, 04 Mar 2001 Ryan Roswell Bird 
<BirdMan@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > I am the proud new owner of an early '67 1600.  
> 
> congrats Ryan!!
> 
> >...  The car I bought is mechanically sound and has no 
significant
> >rust.  
> [...]
> >   My goal for the car is to have a fun driver car, 
> [...]
> >... I've ordered a complete interior kit, a new dash, 
and a complete
> >weatherstripping kit.  ... and will be taking the car to 
a local Viet
> >auto-body shop for the body work / paint.  
> 
> Well, having been there, done that, I thought I'd throw 
my $.02 in. 
> I _thought_ I had bought a mechanically sound roadster 
3.5 yrs ago. I 
> had my restoration wish-list all put together before I 
got it licensed. 
> The list grew longer the better I got to know roadsters. 
>  HA!! 
>  With emphasis on *IF* you want a driver, I'd recommend 
you don't empty 
> your wallet on cosmetics for awhile.. Drive it for 
awhile, and make sure 
> it's going to hold up. You wouldn't believe the list of 
mech'l/electrical 
> things I've had to do to keep mine running.. But it's a 
DAILY driver too. 
> And worth it (so far.. it's pushing it's luck as of late 
though). 
> 
> dan neff    '69 2000
> Colorado Springs, CO
> WyCROC 
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