"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
06/18/2015 at 10:49 • Filed to: project car hell
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"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
06/18/2015 at 10:49 • Filed to: project car hell | 1
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I’m off school until this fall. Due to work being slower, I have some free time (as evidenced by my increased posting on Oppo) and I’m thinking thoughts that would make my wife feel incredibly frustrated if she was to hear them expressed.
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I feel a need to pull that car out into the yard and wrench on it. Actually, I feel a need to have any car to wrench on. I have limited mechanical ability - the most complex work I have ever really done was a complete (rotors/calipers/master cylinder) brake job on my old Volvo and even then I had to take it to a shop to bleed everything. I want a project car. I need a project car. A cheap set of sockets, some grinder wheels, and maybe some sanding disks would be pretty good therapy for me.
I’m just ranting... But... If I I could get into anything cheap enough...
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
06/18/2015 at 10:58 |
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The cheapest, most fun project cars are also the ones that it’s possible to get most insanely over your head on. Take the Cletus Europa. An excellent candidate for a new from the ground up tube frame, wild and wacky engine options, and a thousand other things. Bought for nearly nothing, definitely something unique. And yet, not something to be undertaken lightly, even by someone very experienced, with time, space, and a significant budget. On the other hand, there are plenty of ordinary 40s-70s American classics out there for $2k-$5k that don’t require much to make drivable, but could take ten yours doing little things on the weekend. It’s all about establishing your comfort zone, and then finding out what you can afford that isn’t outside it.
Needmoargarage
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
06/18/2015 at 11:32 |
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You don’t learn without practice! Buy something inexpensive and not super collectible as you will screw up along the way and don’t want to mess up something valuable. However, don’t just buy the cheapest thing available cause it could be a rusty mess. Make sure there are tons of parts available on the market if you pick up a project. You can have a lot of fun for under 5k. My first full restoration was a huge learning experience and I did it all for under 2500, purchase included. (Made some money and learned so much!)
Youtube and Google got me from this:
To this:
Sam
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/18/2015 at 11:57 |
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Like my ‘78 924. It’s perfectly driveable, but needs a lot of work. The best project is one that you can drive.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Sam
06/18/2015 at 12:01 |
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Exactly. If I didn’t have the resolve to carry on rebuilding my Ranchero from having rebuilt a Rover already and now nearly two years deep with no immediate end in sight, I’d have given up long ago. It’s hard to have a project like that.
Because Racecar
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
06/18/2015 at 12:36 |
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Really I think you should buy up a busted econobox, fix it for cheap and flip it. You’ll learn and make some cash.