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Location: ZH, Switzerland | From time to time (recently more often, almost daily) I'm thinking to give up to work on my Chrysler to save the money I'm actually spending for spare parts and tools. With the amount I'll save I would or could send my Chrysler back to the United States within a year or two. The destination will be a professional restorer like e.g. Stellar Restaurations. Both the body and the frame, both are rock solid. The interior is good, too. The front axle, the rear axle, the engine (sludge almost up to the oil pick up), transmission, wiring harness are more or less in a condition like a ruin. Happy Motoring! Dieter |
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Location: NY & VT | Why not to Sweden - it's a lot closer, and their work is as good as any. Or Italy with Antonello! |
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Location: bishop, ca | Is a mechanical restauration where your undercarriage is so clean that you can eat off of it?
LOL...Dieter!
Your English is a tad better than my Deutsche....
Agreed...somebody in Sweden should be able to Finnish your car.
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | Sweden, Italy, Germany every country has good mechanics. Why to send it to the States? Stellar Restauration restored a 1956 De Soto Adventure. Except of the engine and some parts of the sheet metal the De Soto is identical to the 1956 Chrysler New Yorker. I think in the States is the fountain of parts for my Chrysler. I'm still in contact with Leif (Cedric). He knows a mechanic near Loerrach... I plan to visit him this Sunday. http://www.stellarrestorations.com/1956DeSotoAdventurer/index.php Happy Motoring! Dieter |
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Location: Perth Australia | If you are going to do that, you may be better off selling your car locally and buying another one (done or not) and getting that one shipped to your restorer of choice to make it as you want it.
The freight cost back and forth is money towards your resto wasted
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Not to mention the temporary export and import regulations.... Better to drive it to Sweden and take a plane back to Germany  |
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Location: atlanta | ttotired - 2014-08-27 7:34 PM
If you are going to do that, you may be better off selling your car locally and buying another one (done or not) and getting that one shipped to your restorer of choice to make it as you want it.
The freight cost back and forth is money towards your resto wasted
Man, great point Mick, great advice and another option for him. |
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Location: Perth Australia | Not sure of shipping for him, but if I shipped my plymouth to the states and back, I would be up for 8 to 10 thousand without taking internal US freight and actual restoration costs into it
Hard decision to give up the car you have been caring for, but unless your talking an ultra high dollar restoration where the freight cost becomes negligible, it could be better starting again
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | ttotired - 2014-08-27 9:35 AM Not sure of shipping for him, but if I shipped my plymouth to the states and back, I would be up for 8 to 10 thousand without taking internal US freight and actual restoration costs into it Hard decision to give up the car you have been caring for, but unless your talking an ultra high dollar restoration where the freight cost becomes negligible, it could be better starting again I estimated the shipping cost forth and back at about 10k to 12k. For the restauration another 10 to 12k Dollars. Until now I didn't get in contact with an exporter like Fiege in Switzerland. When I imported my Chrysler the manager told me, that his company offers a country to country shipping with the car in a container and all paper work done. Sven, I just looked at michelin map from Eiken, Switzerland to Goeteborg, Sweden. The journey is about 900 miles - I assume a two day ride with my Chrysler. That would be a great adventure as well. May I PM you? Happy Motoring! Dieter Eiken is the village where the barn is close by. It's a 60 mi/1.5 hour trip each way from my home to see my Chrysler. Under these circumstancies it's not possible to work on my Chrysler anymore. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Sure thing Dieter - just send a PM - remember that "my" town Karlskrona is in the south of Sweden |
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | Hello Sven I just sent a PM. I'm looking forward to receive an answer from you. Kind regards Happy Motoring! Dieter
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Location: Perth Australia | Depending on how you want the resto done, 10 to 12K might only get a paint job
My poly rebuild was somewhere about 5 grand (I did all the labour, thats parts and machining only)
Be carefull how your budget is spent, it can get away from you really fast (without someone ripping you off, just good honest work cost big money)
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Location: Fairfax, Minnesota | ttotired - 2014-08-29 6:38 PM Depending on how you want the resto done, 10 to 12K might only get a paint job My poly rebuild was somewhere about 5 grand (I did all the labour, thats parts and machining only) Be carefull how your budget is spent, it can get away from you really fast (without someone ripping you off, just good honest work cost big money) I agree. Virtually everyone that I talked to about painting my car (No Rust) told me that it would be at least 10K. I am guessing that large flat surfaces that are black might be part of the cost with my 61 Chrysler. Several shops told me that they would give me the price when they got into it- that's like handing someone a blank check. |
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | The color is quite good, but somehow cloudy at the rear quarter panels. There are only small imperfections to paint with a partial painting. An Italian close by did a wonderful job on a 1976 Alfa Romeo 2000 I sold prior I purchased the Chrysler. The main problem IMHO is the rear axle and little bit less the front axle plus the sludge in the oil pan - but absolutely no strange noise from the engine. I'll stay there for few days I guess and we'll discuss what to do and when. I don't want an award winning show car - I would like just to get a quite reliable Sunday driver when it's sunny. Happy Motoring! Dieter IHMO a professional restoration of a 354 double rocker shaft engine could cost easily a 5 digit sum |
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Location: bishop, ca | That 'cloudy' appearance is not fixable; the paint's color pigments have been removed from the paint-base, leaving that
underlying (primer?) color showing through.
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | Finally on Saturday 27th of September early moring I started my journey. First refill was at the Stuttgart area. After a coffee break at about 11.00h the right front wheel tended to lock/ had noticeable drag while I started to proceed my journey. At an exit, Essen area, for a detour, because the Highway was closed (under restoration) on the middle lane I had to brake. I almost lost control over my Chrysler. Thanks to my good reaction I only used a little more than one lane (I was at the middle lane and good luck - not too very heavy traffic). After that I had to hold the steering wheel very tight to balance the heavy drag to the right side (because the rh front brake grabs faster than the LH front brake). A second and a third refill of the gas tank followed. Around Hamburg I saw a Golf 4 TDI with heavy clicker noise passing me. Al little bit later his engine blew (heavy black smoke out of the exhaust, smelling like burning rubber). At Gremersdorf (North of Lubeck) I got a bed. Next morning another 81 mi to the ferry. At about 8.15h I entered Denmark. Through the tunnel to Sweden. At about 200 mi at the partial counter I refilled the forth time. Finnaly at around 2 or 3 pm I met Wizard. Happy to meet him and happy my Chrysler brought me to him with no defects (execpt the behavior of the front brakes) and I didn't had an accident. I used about 2 quarts of oil to refill and around 14 l/100km (17 mpg) for the whole journey. Where I could I rode all the time around 62 mph. Happy Motoring Dieter BTW: IMHO you'll notice why I'm desperately asking for new brake return springs - at least one.
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