Posted on 12/10/2018 9:35:23 AM PST by Red Badger
Between the office, dysfunctional home life, lack of certain resources, and 0 help I’m amazed anything is done at all.
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Roll-over death traps. I had a 1968 that flipped, the guy I sold it to rolled it, and the guy he sold it to rolled it as well. 4.11 gears, 351W with three on the tree and no power steering. It would climb any mountain, but at any speed above 50 you were taking your life into your own hands!!
Cool cars. But for $178,000, I’d expect one that I could keep garaged save for a monthly or bi-monthly exercise run and be almost assured that in 2-3 years I could consign it to Barrett Jackson or Mecum and at least double my money. Watch those auctions and you can see equivalent resto-mods for well under $75,000.
Sure they will, another bragging point for members of the big d!ck club.
That's about the right price for very nice private restorations Like this one
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We IH Scout owners might differ on that opinion, FRiend...
I like that.
Somewhere I read of an outfit selling restored Cherokee Chiefs around 40 or 45k.
For the money, I’d get the Chief.
Time to shut the blazer down. I’ve fumigated the building enough. K5 is at the end of the fix up chain. It gets some attention and resources.
I’m for old school body and looks with modern day insides.
You and my grandfather are of the same mind.
It’s ugly.
>>>Also, check out Revology Mustangs:<<<
A Company in Taiwan manufactures a first Gen Mustang Body. I checked a while back and they were going for about $15,000.
Not sure if Revology uses them as their Parts source.
That is cool.
I saw something similar on Live PD.
Revology Mustangs are in the same price class as some Audi R8, Acura NSX, Porsche 911, Mercedes AMG, Maserati GT, Aston-Martin, and some other models. There are plenty of cheaper replicas/restos, but this is a slightly different market: Wretched excess!
Manual transmissions?
Pretty cool, though I’d rather have a small (150 hp) turbo Diesel.
We had an International Travelall. It was what I learned to drive on. It was a probably a 1975. Straight 6 tractor engine in (400 cu in I think). My dad was a farmer from WNY. He was a IH man. No John Deere crap on our property. We had a 1950’s Farmall Super H. A 1968 Cub Cadet. He bought the Travelall for pulling a camper trailer.
My oldest brother rolled the Travelall with 2 buddies/Literally 360. It was slightly dented. No major body damage. They all walked away. He then hit a deer with it. It broke the passenger side headlight and bent the grill. Killed the deer. The thing was a beast. I remember the brakes were really touchy. It got about 8 miles/gallon. The Travellall was not 4WD drive like the Scout. The Scout were a tough rig. I forgot about those.
My best friend had a 1970’s Toyota Landcruiser. It had a GM 350 engine in it. Much better vehicle IMHO than a Jeep.
After that he had K5 Blazer. We would take the back top off of it and leave the doors on in the summer. It was like a convertible 4WD pick up truck then. Fun to drive around in the summer except when it rained.
One of the biggest rust buckets ever built. After just a few years, most of the quarter panels were gone.
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