Survivor vs Restored

[COPO]

Scott,

So sorry to hear of your Dad's passing, but sounds like you got his love for muscle cars and that will continue on. Regarding your TA, having visited MASCAR a few years ago, I'm certain you guys will do a terrific job documenting the build and it will be a terrific example upon completion. While I appreciate there are some strong opinions about what to do with this car, ultimately it's YOUR car.

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[RST]

I LOVE EVERYBODY [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[Steve Shauger]

The intent of this forum is to discuss and promote unrestored cars. There is a restoration forum where restorations should be discussed. As the saying goes &quot;you can restore a car over and over but they are only original once&quot;. Some us like them bruises and all.

Please keep restoration discussion in the appropriate forums moving forward.

I love and own both restored and unrestored cars, but when a car like Skip's orange 69 Z, was found it blew my mind. To me there is nothing like a well preserved time capsule. Factory quality, flaws and all, they just get me excited.

[Postsedan]

Scott,

So sorry for your loss.....that is great advice you give. I spent all day with my parents yesterday. I taking nothing for granted, cherish these days.

May Dad RIP.

Dan

[KenMaisano]

She's original paint. I had it posted here for sale Forever. A couple of years ago, and No One would write a check for her in the $60K range. I finally sold it with a combo of carsonline and ebay. I believe it traded hands again last year. for the same $60K.

Kenny

[Pusher_Man]

never saw it, but probably before i got on this site. post your for sale link on here, if you don't care, or pm it to me.

depending on the other details on the car, i very well might be interested now, and would have been then.

[RST]

Paceme .... I am a bit confused ... the title of this thread is &quot;Survivor or Restored&quot; and we were discussing that ... we will not be posting any restoration photos, or discussing the cars restoration... we will however share original photos of the car to assist anyone that wants to see original documentation that may be helpful.

Cheers.

[Steve Shauger]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RST</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Paceme .... I am a bit confused ... the title of this thread is &quot;Survivor or Restored&quot; and we were discussing that ... we will not be posting any restoration photos, or discussing the cars restoration... we will however share original photos of the car to assist anyone that wants to see original documentation that may be helpful.

Cheers. </div></div>

I Guess the rub is we are discussing the preservation of unrestored cars, your comments have been about restoring 11k mile 73 SD (and documenting the disassembly).

Now your partner Ken posts looking for his old unrestored 69 silver Z to restore. It's interesting when he was selling the car Z he echoed my feelings for unrestored cars &quot;I have driven this car, it's amazing, I have lots of fully restored cars and I must say, this is the best driving muscle car I have ever driven! It's fast, fun and solid!&quot;

I understand you're in the restoration business and you want cars to be perfect, in fact I looked at some of your amazing restorations at MCACN.

Unrestored cars are not perfect, but each assembly imperfection and the bruises each owner put there have a story to tell.

Look forward to following the restoration process on another forum...


BTW the Boss Cougar at MCACN really caught my eye....


Best,

[RST]

Pusher Man ..... Kens Z 28 was a very cool Survivor, however the paint was not very good .... and the interior smelled horrible [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

Mostly rust free though and very cool. It was sold about a year ago ... we are looking for it as it would be a great car to restore and needs it ... lots of spot painting, etc.....

[Charley Lillard]

Silver paint on 69's never did hold up very well. They tend to look like crap.