After all the flack I took for parting out a few Avanti's, I decided to save the one I'm working on now. As you may recall the PO spent 18K on the car, and it was still a turd, needing paint and interior. The reason I hate to do rough cars, is one thing leads to other. i.e., installing a interior from a parts car, meant swapping the dash. Swapping the dash exposed the need for a wiring harness, the new harness meant a alternator swap from a GM single wire to factory, factory meant a new voltage regulator.
With all new wiring, why not fix the clock, tach, trunk light and miscellaneous lighting issues and install new red bulbs ? Then I started to fix much of the work done by the "restoration shop', i.e., the vacuum for the upgraded Cruise-O-matic was hooked to the float vent for emissions on the Edebrock !!!
After a few months of playing, the car runs great, the AC blows cold, and at least the PO's brake rebuild was done right. I replaced the dry rotted tires with 4 new radials. Now that I've gone this far, I'll rebuild the steering bell crank to tighten up the steering and see what comes up next.
The bottom line, a car I paid for $4500 for, and could have parted for 10K, I'm now in $6000 and lots of labor and will be lucky to get 6-7 K for, but its saved. It's now a running, driving turd with a decent interior.
With all new wiring, why not fix the clock, tach, trunk light and miscellaneous lighting issues and install new red bulbs ? Then I started to fix much of the work done by the "restoration shop', i.e., the vacuum for the upgraded Cruise-O-matic was hooked to the float vent for emissions on the Edebrock !!!
After a few months of playing, the car runs great, the AC blows cold, and at least the PO's brake rebuild was done right. I replaced the dry rotted tires with 4 new radials. Now that I've gone this far, I'll rebuild the steering bell crank to tighten up the steering and see what comes up next.
The bottom line, a car I paid for $4500 for, and could have parted for 10K, I'm now in $6000 and lots of labor and will be lucky to get 6-7 K for, but its saved. It's now a running, driving turd with a decent interior.
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