Maybe you folks who are so upset over the parting of this car should go and
offer Mel a good price for it, take it home and restore it.
I wish it was a 25,000 mile 60 Savoy he was parting. I would have bought a bunch
of stuff from it.
My 2 cents.... probably worth a lot less, but they are mine. :-)
Don
MARK J HASH wrote:
> >
> >
> >....Well guys and gals, this makes it more of a challenge, huh? There is
> >more to a car than just low miles. Which poses a question, I see more and
> >more ads with "original miles" that are really low. ie, 60,000 on a 1957
> >car is 1,428 average miles per year. Unless it was put on blocks as a late
> >model car 35 years ago, this low mileage sure seems highly unlikely. More
> >likely 160, 000, which is still only 3,800 average for a '57.
>
> > MEL BOHNENCAMP WROTE:
> >There are no floors and there is no frame. There also in no trunk floor.
> >there are no fenders front or rear. Now you tell me what do you do with a
> >car like that. You sure as heck dont restore it weather it is a 2 dr or
> >4dr]
>
> A few years ago I bought a '66 Olds Toronado with 38K "original" miles, and
> the car was cherry. . .not just no rust, but also things like driver's seat
> showed very little wear, not a lot of road grime on the engine, paint not
> flaked or faded, etc. Same with a '63 Chev Impala 4dr I bought with a
> supposed 75K miles. Very very nice cars, and you could believe the mileage
> was actual because of the overall condition of the car.
> Another car I ended up NOT buying was a '64 Chev Impala SS (yeah, I was into
> Chevs about 10 years ago). They claimed 50, something thousand miles, but
> there was heavy rust in the quarters, the seat was torn to rags and sagged
> to the floorboards (must have been owned by a heavy guy), and the engine was
> black with grime, and also barely held its own when trying to make it run,
> among other various problems. If that car really had 50K or so actual
> miles, then they were the hardest miles any car ever had. I would doubt the
> reliability of any moving part that came from that car, simply because they
> more than likely would have been totally worn out by the time someone pulled
> the parts from the car. . . .
> Mark mjh
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