New Airplane Toys?
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Lawreston
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It's the next thing to being a cream puff -- or it will when the mill gets into it.
My Dad bought it -- a 1966 -- in 1968, with 15000 miles on it; $2195.00. The recent accredited appraisal on it was scary.
HR
That license plate has been on it since 1968; and before that it had been on a 1960 Austin Healey from 1961. The folding top and roll-down windows surely beat stowing the "side curtains" and the top in the "boot."
My Dad bought it -- a 1966 -- in 1968, with 15000 miles on it; $2195.00. The recent accredited appraisal on it was scary.
HR
That license plate has been on it since 1968; and before that it had been on a 1960 Austin Healey from 1961. The folding top and roll-down windows surely beat stowing the "side curtains" and the top in the "boot."
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That car looks darned near like new. With the new motor it's going to be a lot of fun.
TangoWhiskey
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Wow, both the car and the new engine are beautiful!!!!
Cameron: "You don't understand--he never drives it!! He just rubs it with a diaper!"
Ferris: "A man with sensibilities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile."
Cameron: "You don't understand--he never drives it!! He just rubs it with a diaper!"
Ferris: "A man with sensibilities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile."
Lawreston
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A bit of history is in order. Dad put new floors in her in the mid 70s. Then he put 4 new steel fenders on(while parts were readily available) -- she's aluminum up through the middle.
Then one of my high school classmates(1962) painted her in 1979 -- "red, same as my other one," Dad said.
Even though always garaged, paint crazes with age; and I inherited her in 1998, she not having been run for several years while Dad was ill. In 1999 I almost bought a nice Cessna C-150, seen in the photo with the Healey. I had forgotten her original color, so used was I to the '60 Healey when I was in high school.
2001: new upper ball joints, new exhaust system, other mechanical updates/replacements. Then a total strip; complete set of body rubber parts, new top, new carpets, new trunk liner -- Moss Motors sold me a lot of stuff. But when the best
paint shop in Brunswick took off the door panels and the glare shield there was no red paint ----------Healey metallic blue, so she's back to original. After the painting was done I asked how long I should wait before waxing her, thinking back to the days of lacquer which needed time to cure. The paint maestro laughed and said, "Why wax it? She has eight coats of clear coat and is next to bullet proof." But a year or so later the #5 connecting rod went right through the block. It's been - - - - - - well? But I'm as excited as hell. I did one car show -- 2nd place; beat out by a spectacular
1955 Studebaker Hawk. Sorry about the photo size; it was the first time I used a new scanner.
HR
Then one of my high school classmates(1962) painted her in 1979 -- "red, same as my other one," Dad said.
Even though always garaged, paint crazes with age; and I inherited her in 1998, she not having been run for several years while Dad was ill. In 1999 I almost bought a nice Cessna C-150, seen in the photo with the Healey. I had forgotten her original color, so used was I to the '60 Healey when I was in high school.
2001: new upper ball joints, new exhaust system, other mechanical updates/replacements. Then a total strip; complete set of body rubber parts, new top, new carpets, new trunk liner -- Moss Motors sold me a lot of stuff. But when the best
paint shop in Brunswick took off the door panels and the glare shield there was no red paint ----------Healey metallic blue, so she's back to original. After the painting was done I asked how long I should wait before waxing her, thinking back to the days of lacquer which needed time to cure. The paint maestro laughed and said, "Why wax it? She has eight coats of clear coat and is next to bullet proof." But a year or so later the #5 connecting rod went right through the block. It's been - - - - - - well? But I'm as excited as hell. I did one car show -- 2nd place; beat out by a spectacular
1955 Studebaker Hawk. Sorry about the photo size; it was the first time I used a new scanner.
HR
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