Yesterday, a great friend and SDC member had a fatal heart attack. He was in the middle of a complete body off, eat off the chassis rotisserie restoration of a 1958 Silver Hawk. After completely replace the floor pans and truck to the point of using the factory welds, I helped with him mounting the body back on including all the rubber to chassis to body placement.
As with most of us, as the work is being down, he would change his mind about interior, paint, drivetrain, etc. It is currently a nice red/white top, and black fin color. As he always said to me "well, I need to save a few more dollars to do this or that.
Right now it is way too early to go and take pictures, but I do know his wife will not want to do anything further, nor keep the car. Really all it needs is upholstery, drive train and reassembly.
This is like posting the what color should I paint my car question but just to give his wife and sons an idea, what is the car worth? It started as a 6 cylinder car but has been upgrade to V8 components, turner disk conversion, and upgraded Saginaw steering gear from a later Lark. I cannot stress about how much he was willing to do to make the car right. One of the few last conversation he has with me that he was itching to be able to drive the car soon. Sadly, not going to happen
Bob Miles
Tucson AZ
As with most of us, as the work is being down, he would change his mind about interior, paint, drivetrain, etc. It is currently a nice red/white top, and black fin color. As he always said to me "well, I need to save a few more dollars to do this or that.
Right now it is way too early to go and take pictures, but I do know his wife will not want to do anything further, nor keep the car. Really all it needs is upholstery, drive train and reassembly.
This is like posting the what color should I paint my car question but just to give his wife and sons an idea, what is the car worth? It started as a 6 cylinder car but has been upgrade to V8 components, turner disk conversion, and upgraded Saginaw steering gear from a later Lark. I cannot stress about how much he was willing to do to make the car right. One of the few last conversation he has with me that he was itching to be able to drive the car soon. Sadly, not going to happen
Bob Miles
Tucson AZ
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