If you put $30,000 in that car you would have a great $5,000 car.
David Wallace
58 Fury
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 57 Plymouth rot issues
> Well, so far it's 2-1 in favor of sending this thing to the crusher
complete
> with the replacement grille, because of a little surface rust and maybe
> needing to put another roof on it. Never mind that there's not another
one
> this solid within a 300 mile radius of me - I can find another top, but
the
> rest have no rockers or floors or lower quarters, and even those are damn
> hard to find. Is the paint on the car invisible? I'm not seeing things
> where there's black paint everyone else sees more surface rust? Surface
> rust makes the glass, mechanical, steering, suspension worthless?
>
> I'll take note of the consensus - this car won't get scrapped, but I'll
know
> if I want to buy a junkyard out what cars to just haul to the crusher to
> regain my investment back. It explains for me now why I think the one
yard
> even crushed the '57 Dodge convertible a few years ago along with about 2
> dozen other forward look cars, as they cleaned out the old stuff. Kind of
> too bad, I'd have saved a top and a fender for this had I known it would
be
> out here 5 years later.
>
>
> Sooner or later enough will be gone guys will be grateful to find one in
> this shape, no big deal. Might take 30 years and about 90% of the cars
> built to be scrapped first, but hey I can wait.
>
>
>
> Bill K.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JLSAVARD@xxxxxxx>
> To: <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 57 Plymouth rot issues
>
>
> > In a message dated 10/23/2003 7:42:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > There is a second set of the photos up at
> > www.angelfire.com/ny5/classicauto/57plymouth.html with a good close up
of
> > the rusted area.
> >
> > Opinions?
> > Bill, I hate to be blunt, but I agree with "The Clown". There is so
much
> > surface rust on every surface that I see, including the frame, that by
the
> time
> > you sanded it off the sheetmetal would be paper thin. The interior is
> > basically shot, and I noticed that the rear bumper is peeling its
chrome.
> >
> > There comes a time to let go.
> >
> > Sorry, but you asked for opinions.
> >
> >
> > Joe Savard
> > Lake Orion, MI
> >
>
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