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Re: To Restore or not to Restore, that is the question...
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2012, 10:11:24 am »

Bay window is better! (o;
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Re: To Restore or not to Restore, that is the question...
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2012, 11:33:24 am »

Celly come on man, thats just the bottom plate.
As long as the channels and pans are good the rest is easy.
look at my super its way more gone than this one and im putting it together.
Marc look at it like this,
what do you have into it?
What do you think you need to put into it?
And if you put it back to driveable can you flip it for the bus you really want?
I just saw one in worse shape that was driveable go for $2300.
But thats my  2@cent
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Re: To Restore or not to Restore, that is the question...
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2012, 07:27:11 pm »


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               Every car could use some tar!!!!!





                                         

 You got it buddy!    thumpup)-




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Re: To Restore or not to Restore, that is the question...
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2012, 10:13:52 pm »

Celly come on man, thats just the bottom plate.
As long as the channels and pans are good the rest is easy.
look at my super its way more gone than this one and im putting it together.
Marc look at it like this,
what do you have into it?
What do you think you need to put into it?
And if you put it back to driveable can you flip it for the bus you really want?
I just saw one in worse shape that was driveable go for $2300.
But thats my  2@cent

Marc,
     I feel ya, debated long and hard on this, I know that my welder and self taught welding skills are not up to the job of replacing a framehead.  I'm ok with the batter tray and rocker, but not the frame head.  I don't think the car would be safe to drive untill the frame head is fixed, while the 74 would be fun, if I am going to recover something that far gone, it will most likely be some sort of bus.  Some decent splitties out there...

And thanks to everyome for the input!  &^beer&  clap2-*
  
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