> first. Well I started cleaning mud off the front suspension and desided a
> littlle disassembly would make cleaning it up easier. In two weeks I had it
> down to the frame, with the engine on a rack, and every thing else pretty
>much
> disassembled. I also had a list o things that I wanted to replace. I
>started
Ah yes, the dreaded shipwright's disease.
> looking for parts and found a disassembled parts car in the hands of a
>Corvette
> nut. I could see enough of the parts I wanted to exceed the price he wanted
> for the car, so I bought it for parts. It was TOTALLY disassembled and loose
> parts were included and the car was more than all there, so I abandoned the
> idea that it was for parts for the first car, and started the parrallel
> restoration of both of them.
In spades!
> done!) Meanwhile I found the B, not running in the hands of the original
> owner. I bought it right (he wanted a good home for it) and found the only
>
> I drive it all summer (I've a '66 Dodge Charger for bad weather) and really
> enjoy it.
Having a driver you truely enjoy while doing a frame-up restoration is
the only sane approch, IMO.
Roland "fomer TD owner, disassembler and boxer-up" Dudley
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