Thanks for the advice to finish the restoration to
make the car more saleable.
My biggest puzzle is that I wasn't planning on
painting the chassis or the underside of the car. But
the B-J "chassis camera" and, of course, a high paying
buyer, will look at the underside and form an opinion.
The B-J commentators seem to vacillate from praising a
car with a patina of road rash to criticizing a car
with undersides that were only sanded with 600-grit
and never got the 2000-grit wet sanding.
My own goal is to drive my cars as much as I can, and
I scarcely worry about the appearance of the engine
compartment, let alone the undersides and chassis of
my cars. But this 58 New Yorker wagon just might have
to be the exception to my rule, in order to minimize
the loss on it. As I said to the restorer when I
stopped him from going any further, I'll have to sell
the car just to raise the cash to pay for what he's
done most recently, and never mind the loss of the
money I've spent up to now on it.
I did have a laugh, though, in a form of Murphy's Law
meets gallows humor, when I thought I would sell one
of my Brand-X cars to pay for the 58 Chrysler work. We
started to finish off those little last minute details
that have lingered for a few years, only to discover
that the body shop neglected to repair the rear frame
cross-member and body mounts, which now allows the
rear bumper to waggle up and down as the body and
frame fly along in close formation. They also managed
to paint the doors off the car and got a "flip" in the
metallic, so there's a color mismatch. The current
body shop's advice is that there's no guaranteed fix
and the only sure solution is to repaint the whole car
(again). So, there goes my idea of selling another
member of the herd to pay for the Forward Look
extravaganza.
Dick Woodside
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