Title: LIttle Progressives Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Nov 22, 2013 Author:A K A Stone Post Date:2013-11-22 15:52:41 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:7077 Comments:20
We,the people should NOT torture anyone for crimes. If they need to be executed,we should execute them in a humane way,but we don't want to become the very thing we are fighting against.
I just found a 1962 Buick Invicta Convertible. Not bad shape, runs and drives quite well. New top, interior looks great. Factory air. Guys asking $6300. NADA is roughly twice that and they only made them for 2 years.
I just found a 1962 Buick Invicta Convertible. Not bad shape, runs and drives quite well. New top, interior looks great. Factory air. Guys asking $6300.
Sounds like a hell of a buy to me,BUT before *I* would spend 6+ grand on a 1962 car I would go over the body pretty good with a magnet to see how much plastic I could find under the paint,and I would put it up on a lift and look for rust holes and patches from underneath.
A local guy and his wife just spent 21 thousand bucks for a 56 Chevy 2 door sedan that looks great from 15 feet,but you can actually see the bondo under the paint when you get up close. When you get under it you can see the galvanized "patch panels" that were installed using sheet metal screws. The car is a total rust bucket,and 2 grand was too much money for it. They don't care because all they care about is having something shiny to take to car shows,and to people who don't know what they are looking at,it does look good.
If you don't feel competent to do this checking yourself,have a local body shop check it for you,as well as a local garage. They money you pay you can most likely get back by getting the seller to lower his price if you do decide to buy it.
I have seen cars sold that were so slapped together the guy selling them had used newspapers shoved down on the insides of the trunk so the body plastic wouldn't fall right through when he "fixed" the quarter panels using bondo and newspapers instead of spending another 200 bucks to cut away the rust and weld a new quarterpanel in. BTW,check to make sure this car has either a 401 or 425 cubic inch Buick "nailhead" engine in it before you buy it. If it doesn't,it's not an original car,and not worth anywhere near as much money as an original.
BTW,I LOVE nailhead Buick engines. Torque monsters that get good gas mileage,and are just about indestructible.
Yeah,the little valves keep them from making big hp numbers over 6,000 rpm,but they do help the gas mileage and the torque,and I will pick torque and gas mileage over hp any day of the week for a driver.
I had a cousin that used to put them into anything that moved. He used to have a 47 Ford dumptruck back in the late 60's that had a 322 cubic inch nailhead in it,and he used that dumptruck to pull his motor grader around. He later put a dual-quad 425 out of a early 60's Wildcat in the motor grader,and then used that to pull the dump truck. Damn motor grader would run 70 MPH,but he rarely drove it over 34-40 mph. Too hard to stop and it didn't handle real good.
I'm not a purist so original would be fine but it doesn't have to be.
I'm going back and forth between T10 or Tremec 5 speed. I think I'm going with a Chevy 12 bolt rear, but not set on that yet either. Keep looking into custom Ford 9".
I think I'm going with a Chevy 12 bolt rear, but not set on that yet either. Keep looking into custom Ford 9".
Why? All you would be doing is burning up 100 dollar bills. The 10 bolt rear or a 8 inch Ford rear are good up to around 300 hp at the rear wheels,and you won't be making that kind of actual rear wheel hp,and in a street car you won't be hooking up like a drag car and breaking anything,anyhow. Spinning tires doesn't break axles or ring gears. Hooking up when you dump the clutch and don't spin the tires is what breaks things.
I see people all the time that spend a thousand bucks or more on a custom built heavy duty 9 inch Ford rear,when they aren't even making 250 rear wheel hp. It's just a waste of money for a street car with a mild small block.
