I thought I would post this up since it kinda breaks up the monotony of the euro scene. Here's a little back story on the car.
My great grandmother bought it new in 1966, my dad and uncle both learned to drive in this car. When she passed it was handed down to my grandfather who would drive it every now and again, it was not a DD pretty much never saw snow, and was parked in an indoor parking garage. My grandfather passed away back in March, and up to that the car had probably not been driven or run for a solid year due to his declining health. I've been meaning to get it on the road all summer, but have just not had the chance to toy with it at all. About 2 weeks ago my grandmother passed away so we are in the process of moving things out....
Anyways, the car has been in our family it's entire life. It has 41k original miles on it with very minimal body rot. I went to try and get it running the other day, but after airing up the tires and charging the battery I found that the carb seals have let go from sitting so long. Trying to crank it over just SOAKS the engine bay in gasoline. I've gotta dig in the back of my mind to figure out how to work on stuff this old, I spent a solid 25 min looking for the hood release inside the car....
I just ordered up a carb kit, point, condenser, plugs, etc to get her running again. Today I went out and pulled the carb and took a few pics. They didn't turn out too well since I can't really move the car (Pushing that thing by hand alone is tough haha) but the parking garage is soooooo dark.
My plan is to obviously get it going, which won't be too hard. Clean it up, thing hasn't been washed in who knows how long. Really just go to town on the detailing. Then try to drive it some before the snow flys. I don't know what we are going to do after that. I really don't want to sell the car at all, but at the same time we have absolutely no where to put it, I already have 3 cars... I know it's not worth a ton of money, but it has a lot of sentimental value to me.
My great grandmother bought it new in 1966, my dad and uncle both learned to drive in this car. When she passed it was handed down to my grandfather who would drive it every now and again, it was not a DD pretty much never saw snow, and was parked in an indoor parking garage. My grandfather passed away back in March, and up to that the car had probably not been driven or run for a solid year due to his declining health. I've been meaning to get it on the road all summer, but have just not had the chance to toy with it at all. About 2 weeks ago my grandmother passed away so we are in the process of moving things out....
Anyways, the car has been in our family it's entire life. It has 41k original miles on it with very minimal body rot. I went to try and get it running the other day, but after airing up the tires and charging the battery I found that the carb seals have let go from sitting so long. Trying to crank it over just SOAKS the engine bay in gasoline. I've gotta dig in the back of my mind to figure out how to work on stuff this old, I spent a solid 25 min looking for the hood release inside the car....
I just ordered up a carb kit, point, condenser, plugs, etc to get her running again. Today I went out and pulled the carb and took a few pics. They didn't turn out too well since I can't really move the car (Pushing that thing by hand alone is tough haha) but the parking garage is soooooo dark.
My plan is to obviously get it going, which won't be too hard. Clean it up, thing hasn't been washed in who knows how long. Really just go to town on the detailing. Then try to drive it some before the snow flys. I don't know what we are going to do after that. I really don't want to sell the car at all, but at the same time we have absolutely no where to put it, I already have 3 cars... I know it's not worth a ton of money, but it has a lot of sentimental value to me.
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