Dick -
Finish the wagon. forget what you can get for it. Think of yourself as a
long distance runner. Would you quit when you're so close to the finish line
?
Regarding the mismatch between the doors and the body, body shops have tons
of tricks where they can 'blend in' the doors to the body. Once it's clear
coated, you won't see the difference. What do you think they do on modern
cars, when someone has collision damage on a new or relatively new car ?
Detailing the undercarriage is relatively easy. If nothing else, carefully
brush it with POR-15 semigloss.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Woodside" <rwoodside@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:53 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] Unfinished Restoration of 1958 Chrysler Wagon
> 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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