classic graveyards

[scr8p]

Was that the blue car I saw Scr8p?

yup, that's the one.

[noony]

Man that looks good, hard to believe that the same car!

[longboardnj]

dont get me wrong i really respect and think nice ,fast cars like the one scr8p posted are great. i was really into them when i was younger.now that im older i dont want a car that nice and fast=cops=tickets=less money 4 me...these days im more into kinda stock, kinda rat rod like cars or cars like this

[Halgar]

these days im more into kinda stock, kinda rat rod like cars or cars like this

I'll take a capable sleeper over any high dollar, bling bling rig any day!

[longboardnj]

I'll take a capable sleeper over any high dollar, bling bling rig any day!

plus its nice that this "car" is more capable then most new suvs ..plus you can work on this car

[markt311]

I'll take a capable sleeper over any high dollar, bling bling rig any day!

plus its nice that this "car" is more capable then most new suvs ..plus you can work on this car

x2 thats why I want an early 60's bug to work on

[Halgar]

I'll take a capable sleeper over any high dollar, bling bling rig any day!

plus its nice that this "car" is more capable then most new suvs ..plus you can work on this car

x2 thats why I want an early 60's bug to work on

x3!
If you watch the other vids with that car, you'll see that plenty of work has already been done to it.

[longboardnj]

I'll take a capable sleeper over any high dollar, bling bling rig any day!

plus its nice that this "car" is more capable then most new suvs ..plus you can work on this car

x2 thats why I want an early 60's bug to work on

vw bug was the best car vw ever made..drove my friends in the snow alot when i was younger and a girl i went out with had one. stock with snow tires on it and it had the manual shift auto trans. drove that in the woods and it was great. just dont crash them caust if you get hit by a car you may have a better chance on a bike..heres what i want and what id like to do with it

[Grumbles]

Great posts & I love the resto work Scr8p.

[longboardnj]

grumbles you should start your own "classic rc graveyard" you can tape your rc stuff at your job!!! ahhh i gess i cant really talk, i have my own rc graveyard

[MOmo]

Its interesting stuff.

Im sure many of you have junkyards that you can pull parts off cars (in Or, it was Pick-a-Part) and similar names im sure. I was with a friend getting parts for a car, and he reminded me:

"At one point, this was a "new" car that the owner proudly bought and drove home. The countless trips to the store, vacations, etc. Each one its own story. Now they sit here rusting and picked of useful parts like a zebra carcass after a kill."

Putting it in that kind of perspective, Esp for older classic muscle, and even the model T era cars is depressing. Im sure in some areas its not as bad as others. I know here we don't salt the roads in the winter when it snows, so the amount of "rusted" cars is minimal in that respect. And in 50 years, some of the cars selling now will be rusting away in a yard somewhere.


As for the Cars-in-barns type of find, i wish i was that lucky! (also makes me wish for a time machine to buy up all the valuable cars that are harder to find now days.) Sad that highly sought after cars were a mere 3-5k when they were new and can sell for almost quadruple that or more depending.


MOmo

[Grumbles]

Longboard, remember one man's graveyard is another man's treasure trove .

[longboardnj]

Longboard, remember one man's graveyard is another man's treasure trove .

my rc graveyard is my treasure trove

Sad that highly sought after cars were a mere 3-5k when they were new and can sell for almost quadruple that or more depending.

i just saw a camaro that i could of got for like $1000 about 10 years ago is for sale at $8000!!!

[longboardnj]

my new fav [youtube]OAY7F-8Tzus&feature[/youtube]

[Coelacanth]

I'll take a capable sleeper over any high dollar, bling bling rig any day!

Me too, 100% Halgar! I *love* sleepers. Every vehicle I've owned was/is considered a sleeper in it's time. My '70 Charger, rusted out quarters, puke green but with a strong 383 Magnum blew the doors off a lot of shiny new Camaros & Firebirds and the rare few "high end sports cars" that didn't puss out at red lights. Later it was the G/N I told my father about and he later bought; in the mid-80's, muscle was all but forgotten, and the Regal was NOT the look of a car people expected to be quick. My 1998 Dakota special-ordered with 5.2L RWD, limited-slip rear end & beefier stabilizer bars was a total ricer-killer. And now my 2008 Torrent GXP, best 0-60 of 6.88 seconds...that kind of get-up-and-go from a 4200+ pound SUV is totally shocking! But I've yet to learn a lesson to any ricers yet, I guess nobody figures an SUV is worth racing.