Hi All,
Just want to post some pics of a really sick studie that my dad and I have just started to restore. It's a 1964 Daytona 4 door.
My grandfather and dad bought it brand new together from a dealership in Kingston, Ontario. When we moved to Manitoba in the 80's my dad brought the car out west with us. It was restored in the 80s by my dad. He drove it daily and I started to drive it once I got my license in high school. I drove it for the first 2 years of university 60 miles every day. I even got my first speeding ticket with her (if you can believe that). I never had any problems with it even with our -40 F days that we have here.
Unfortunatly our winters are pretty nasty and driving the car year round was hard on the body. It started to rust so in 1999 we parked it in a farmers barn so it would be out of the snow and rain.
The car sat for 6 years unseen until the farmer called us and asked us to pick the car up because he was going to be renting out his entire barn. When we went to pick it up in September it was pretty sad sight. The mice got into the car and wrecked the interior, it smelled, it was dirty, the tires were flat, and worst of all the car was sunk in mud at the side of the barn. Apparently the barn wasn't as dry as we hoped and the mud was wet year round. The drivers side rotted out pretty bad. It took a great deal of work to get it out of the mud.
We ended up towing the car back to my dads garage with his 1962 Studebaker champ. In 1982 or 1983 my dad purchased the abandoned truck from a farmer and we towed the truck from the farmers field with the car. I was 7 years old at that time. It was a wierd feeling having the truck towing the car this time.
We plan on doing a complete restoration on it over the next few years. We've started to rip it apart and I've included some pictures. It's in pretty rough shape. Needs new rockers, some new floors, new trunk floor,fener work, door work, frame work, new interior. On the plus side of things the engine should still run since it was running when it was parked. Thats one of the few positives.
I'm taking a autobody course now at the local college and just purchased a mig welder. My dad's done restorations in the past and he thinks it will be challege. Should be both fun and painfull!
Here are the pics.
In Tow
In Garage
Rocker Panel and Floor Rust
Trunk
I'll keep you posted on the progress.
Take care
Just want to post some pics of a really sick studie that my dad and I have just started to restore. It's a 1964 Daytona 4 door.
My grandfather and dad bought it brand new together from a dealership in Kingston, Ontario. When we moved to Manitoba in the 80's my dad brought the car out west with us. It was restored in the 80s by my dad. He drove it daily and I started to drive it once I got my license in high school. I drove it for the first 2 years of university 60 miles every day. I even got my first speeding ticket with her (if you can believe that). I never had any problems with it even with our -40 F days that we have here.
Unfortunatly our winters are pretty nasty and driving the car year round was hard on the body. It started to rust so in 1999 we parked it in a farmers barn so it would be out of the snow and rain.
The car sat for 6 years unseen until the farmer called us and asked us to pick the car up because he was going to be renting out his entire barn. When we went to pick it up in September it was pretty sad sight. The mice got into the car and wrecked the interior, it smelled, it was dirty, the tires were flat, and worst of all the car was sunk in mud at the side of the barn. Apparently the barn wasn't as dry as we hoped and the mud was wet year round. The drivers side rotted out pretty bad. It took a great deal of work to get it out of the mud.
We ended up towing the car back to my dads garage with his 1962 Studebaker champ. In 1982 or 1983 my dad purchased the abandoned truck from a farmer and we towed the truck from the farmers field with the car. I was 7 years old at that time. It was a wierd feeling having the truck towing the car this time.
We plan on doing a complete restoration on it over the next few years. We've started to rip it apart and I've included some pictures. It's in pretty rough shape. Needs new rockers, some new floors, new trunk floor,fener work, door work, frame work, new interior. On the plus side of things the engine should still run since it was running when it was parked. Thats one of the few positives.
I'm taking a autobody course now at the local college and just purchased a mig welder. My dad's done restorations in the past and he thinks it will be challege. Should be both fun and painfull!
Here are the pics.
In Tow
In Garage
Rocker Panel and Floor Rust
Trunk
I'll keep you posted on the progress.
Take care
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