Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
...from the Nuthouse.
I bought another car. Yes, after the Imperial. Specifically, Monday night I bought a 1967 Barracuda out of a barn about 30 miles away... for a little more than scrap price.
There's a reason I paid a little more than scrap, and that's because, well, it's scrap. It's been sitting on the ground in a leaky barn for around 20 years, and it's shot. Every exterior panel is junk, with the exception of the hood (and it's not perfect, but it may be savable). The interior looks like a grenade detonated in there, and the unibody? Lets just say I borrowed a couple of small-bolt Rallyes from a friend so that it might just roll... I was afraid that dragging it on to a trailer would tear the car in half. I've dragged home a lot of shitty parts cars, and driven some cars in which you'd be afraid to ride, but of the 70+ cars I've owned over the years, this is easily the rustiest by a damned sight. If it doesn't rip in half, I credit the doors and the roof.
Why bother? Parts. It's an original Slant Six three-speed car that was mid-automatic-conversion when the project stalled. The pedals are still there, but most of the floor-shift/console conversion is there as well. The instrument cluster and dash structure are quite nice, including the original Performance Indicator (vacuum gauge). The taillights look pretty good, as do the hood inserts (if I can't save the hood itself) as well as the front and rear glass... but, then again, it was dark and I may have missed a crack or fogging but nothing jumped out at me. I didn't get a good look at the console other than to note it's sitting in the back seat. The driver's-side grille looks warped but not dinged or dented so it may be saveable, but the other side is shot and both headlamp bezels are gone (though the seller claims they're around somewhere and "nice"). Also supposedly included in the deal are the rest of the original 3-speed setup, which he claimed were "around here somewhere."
Realistically, I don't expect to profit much from this one, but I do enjoy hauling home rusty crap and taking anything good from it. Who knows... if the hood can't be saved, maybe one of the other projects will sport a set of Barracuda hood blisters.
I don't have it home yet; we were going to go fetch it tonight but things didn't pan out. There will be plenty of photographic hilarity once I've got it on the trailer and safely to its dismantling area. We may put it in my co-worker's garage and spend a night or two drinking beer and scavenging. As far as I'm concerned after that it's off to the crusher, but he likes to hang onto crap like that, and may park it next to the '67 Chevelle hardtop and several FJ40 Land Cruisers quietly rusting into oblivion in his back field.
Stay tuned for pictures.
I bought another car. Yes, after the Imperial. Specifically, Monday night I bought a 1967 Barracuda out of a barn about 30 miles away... for a little more than scrap price.
There's a reason I paid a little more than scrap, and that's because, well, it's scrap. It's been sitting on the ground in a leaky barn for around 20 years, and it's shot. Every exterior panel is junk, with the exception of the hood (and it's not perfect, but it may be savable). The interior looks like a grenade detonated in there, and the unibody? Lets just say I borrowed a couple of small-bolt Rallyes from a friend so that it might just roll... I was afraid that dragging it on to a trailer would tear the car in half. I've dragged home a lot of shitty parts cars, and driven some cars in which you'd be afraid to ride, but of the 70+ cars I've owned over the years, this is easily the rustiest by a damned sight. If it doesn't rip in half, I credit the doors and the roof.
Why bother? Parts. It's an original Slant Six three-speed car that was mid-automatic-conversion when the project stalled. The pedals are still there, but most of the floor-shift/console conversion is there as well. The instrument cluster and dash structure are quite nice, including the original Performance Indicator (vacuum gauge). The taillights look pretty good, as do the hood inserts (if I can't save the hood itself) as well as the front and rear glass... but, then again, it was dark and I may have missed a crack or fogging but nothing jumped out at me. I didn't get a good look at the console other than to note it's sitting in the back seat. The driver's-side grille looks warped but not dinged or dented so it may be saveable, but the other side is shot and both headlamp bezels are gone (though the seller claims they're around somewhere and "nice"). Also supposedly included in the deal are the rest of the original 3-speed setup, which he claimed were "around here somewhere."
Realistically, I don't expect to profit much from this one, but I do enjoy hauling home rusty crap and taking anything good from it. Who knows... if the hood can't be saved, maybe one of the other projects will sport a set of Barracuda hood blisters.
I don't have it home yet; we were going to go fetch it tonight but things didn't pan out. There will be plenty of photographic hilarity once I've got it on the trailer and safely to its dismantling area. We may put it in my co-worker's garage and spend a night or two drinking beer and scavenging. As far as I'm concerned after that it's off to the crusher, but he likes to hang onto crap like that, and may park it next to the '67 Chevelle hardtop and several FJ40 Land Cruisers quietly rusting into oblivion in his back field.
Stay tuned for pictures.
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