4:31 PM 6/26/96
>Hey now, > Looked at a '59 today here in Austin (I believe it was posted to >the list a few days back) and it has some hardcore cancer. Down by the >jackpoints (or where the jackpoints are on a baywindow, I'm assuming they >remain constant) there are holes about 2-3" wide. This is on the >crossmembers that the floorpan rests on. Hardcore. Seems to me this is real >difficult to repair, any thoughts? The fellow has done a decent job on the >interior, it's in pretty fair shape, just a few spots with water damage. >Cute paint job too, real hippied out. The wife loves it, but I'm afraid >it's beyond me since I can't weld. Ah, a topic I'm taking more interest in as I look at more splitties (and I though California was the rust free state?). It depends on the asking price of course, most of the parts you would need are available as repair sections, but it would be a big one to take on with no welding experience .... The thing is, the good paint job and the interior are probably going to have to be redone if you start cutting, grinding, welding and painting to fix the floor, wheel wells and chassis.... I saw a 21 window deluxe in much the same condition. The paint was new, and the interior had just been redone - nice bus you'd think. I crawled underneath it and it was literally rotten (the guy had put in new floor section so it looked alright from on top but the belly pans, chassis, wheel wheels, inside rockers were just *toast* and I mean *toast*). Talk about doing it all the wrong way round. He was asking $6000! and really you'd have to do it all again if it was salvageable at all. I did tell a young guy who was talking serious deal with the owner while I was crawling over it to have a look underneath (is this bad form ?). I hope that noone paid over a grand for it (someone probably did methinks) - it disappeared from the paper about two weeks later ............... Rob K.
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