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re: Advice on Buying a Car to Fix Up as a Hobby?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:08 am to Shiftyplus1
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:08 am to Shiftyplus1
Sounds fun, but you will need 20K to burn.
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:09 am to TIGER2
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:18 am to TIGER2
And not everything will go as planed. The first engine, I ate a lobe on the cam at start up. Hope to start engine rebuild #2 this weekend. Good luck and have fun if you decide to do one!
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:20 am to Shiftyplus1
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:20 am to Shiftyplus1
An alternative suggestion: Get into autocross. This could potentially be A LOT cheaper than restoring an old muscle car.
If you're in the BR area look up CENLA SCCA. They meet once a month in Gonzalez. Right now is the off season, but it starts back up again in September. Come out to a race, meet some people, and maybe ask for a ride along. Folks are generally very friendly and accommodating to newbies.
Autocross has loads of categories for anything you can imagine, and it will give you a goal and purpose for building your car. You will actually be able to use all of those performance upgrades, and you'll be able to have a focus for how you build the car rather than just throwing money at it.
If you're in the BR area look up CENLA SCCA. They meet once a month in Gonzalez. Right now is the off season, but it starts back up again in September. Come out to a race, meet some people, and maybe ask for a ride along. Folks are generally very friendly and accommodating to newbies.
Autocross has loads of categories for anything you can imagine, and it will give you a goal and purpose for building your car. You will actually be able to use all of those performance upgrades, and you'll be able to have a focus for how you build the car rather than just throwing money at it.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:21 am to DuckShooter
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What would you like to know?
why on earth anyone still uses photobucket.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:27 am to Shiftyplus1
I know you said American, but I restored a 1965 Porsche 356 Coupe over a period of several years and got tons of enjoyment chasing down parts and such. Sold it in pristine condition for a good profit, but sure wish I still had it.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:25 am to CptRusty
It works?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:31 am to Obtuse1
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With that setup, you could shave seconds off the lap times of even a turboed E36 Lightweight. The only negative with the Mustang would be a greater propensity to understeer unless you flare the wheel wells to put more meat on the front.
Now the OP obviously isn't planning to go this deep but I was just showing that a 60s car doesn't have to handle and stop like a 60s car if you don't want it to.
Sounds like a hell of a track car. I just don't have that kind of time/money. I get more out of something I can drive and tinker with rather than something requiring tons of fab work. I think a lot of people don't realize the amount of work involved in some of these builds.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 12:54 pm to Shiftyplus1
quote:'69 Camaro w/BB.
but does anyone else have other ideas?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 7:35 pm to TIGER2
Love it. Awesome ride.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 7:45 pm to Shiftyplus1
It’ll be a money pit buttttttt there is a huge following on YouTube for users who do this. Millions of views on video series.
Maybe find an uncommon vehicle with some nostalgia. Video yourself/the process of rebuilding it, monetize your videos on YouTube....profit?
Hell, people are buying rare wrecked vehicles, rebuilding them, and making BANK just from the videos.
Maybe find an uncommon vehicle with some nostalgia. Video yourself/the process of rebuilding it, monetize your videos on YouTube....profit?
Hell, people are buying rare wrecked vehicles, rebuilding them, and making BANK just from the videos.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:05 pm to TIGER2
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And not everything will go as planed. The first engine, I ate a lobe on the cam at start up.
The very first engine I ever built (that one was self taught) had so much lithium grease and cam shaft assembly lube in it that it took me three oil changes to flush it out, I was deathly paranoid. After all was said and done I bent every intake valve in the first 2 seconds. Despite everything I had researched (pre-internet) said my deck height, gasket, head, cam and piston combination should have been fine. I had to have deeper valve reliefs machined into my pistons and rebuild the top end.
It was a very humbling experience for my neophyte arse.
OH yeah I forgot that on the second startup I melted off all the high temp coating on my headers because I had the timing set so far off. After that it saw ~4Ok and over 200 passes with nothing but a new coil wire every 5k and new points every 10k. Changing the points hammered home the value of a Ford over a Chevy especially when setting the points on a dual point distributor.
Very cool build BTW!
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:05 pm to Shiftyplus1
65 Ford Falcon. Basically the same as a Mustang mechanically speaking. And way less expensive to buy.
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