Build it as a custom. There are 7 others.. It troubles me that folks are afraid to customize (or just drive) a car because it's rare. It's far off-topic, but a friend of mine has a '67 Country Squire with a 428 /4 speed and an XL interior. It's a 1 of 1 from Ford and required the approval of Lee Iacocca to be manfactured. My friend *is* a stock restoration nut, but after getting this one running, he just drives the **** out of it, Ohio rust and all. Jan
Custom cars have a better respect now more than ever. I think that the car done as a taistfull custom would be the better attention getter. Prolly be worth more, It takes some balls to customize somthing like that. You know what your doing around customs. You know what it would take to make it right.
Dare to be different. It would cost you more to restore it then to custom it. I have seen yer work and the creative mind at work comng from the past cars. Then again, if it was that rare, you would be the only one with a customized one. I say go for it!!!!!!!!!!! KNUX!
if it was the last one left on earth, i'd say restore it. but since there are several others already restored go all out on it. if i go to a car show its not the restored cars i look at, even if they are rare. its the one off customs that draw the crowds.
1. Welcome to the Hamb! 2. I introduced you to my girl friend at the sf show she was impressed at how down to earth you are/the nice guy thing 3.I say let a restorer have it! With the talent in your shop you could take a coupe and turn it into a convertible custom and in the end the rare car would survive and and nobody is going care if you started with a rare covertible or a coupe? Just my 2 cents LTR Dave
Put it out for the restoration freeks to buy. Give them 30 or 60 days to come up with the goods. If they don't bite, Gable-ize it and when someone *****es, they had their chance! If it were mine, I wouldn't sweat the restoration. If those guys wanted it bad enough, they should have beat you to it. No matter what, it is your car and you show that talent is not lacking in your department! Me, I can't even photoshop!
cut it up ! drive it to pebble beach and do burnout`s ! with all the little piece`s you cut out ,tied together, draging behind the car ! then may the other 7 owners will bring them to you to fix ? ha
You know that was a beautifull car in its day, that was probably exactly the kind of car that inspired a lot of those early customizers to do their thing on Fords and Chevy's. Make a poor man's car look like a high roller's car. I say leave it be, let a restorer bring it back to it's original beauty and let it inspire someone to chop up a more common car.
OZ a FNG now thats funny! welcome to the H.A.M.B. bro you gona be in Sac? if so see you and coyte there!
Tough call. If it was almost any other shop doing it I would say restore it but when it's in your hands I think I would lean more towards a custom. Your cars are always so cl***y and clean that I think it would be an unbelievable car when you were through with it.
Yes, customize it, your work is world famous. Who knows if there even is a restorer who wants that car, and what quality of work is he capable of having done? There are some so called restorers out there who turn out absolute junk. Make that car beautiful while you can!
If it was average Joe asking i would say sell it, but since i´ve seen your work i say customize it, make it cl***y!
Don't be a pus, you have a vision for it already, go with your gut. You'll make a *****in car and it will still be worth $ when you get rid of it.
You'll be pissed when you sell it to a "restorer" and he sticks it in a barn and lets it sit for 30 years, or worse yet takes it somewhere else to get it customized
So where are all these coupes? You think the conv is rare? I'll say it again...it's "rare" for a reason. Hey a Packard LeBaron is rare too but nobody would consider cuttin up a million dollar car. It's the wrong "rare" to be concerned with. It wasn't a big seller in it's day. Kool for sure and screaming for someone with VISION to make it interesting, ***y, timelessly styled, and a pleasure to see. So, a little over an hour ago a 56 Olds 98 brought $330000. It was a HT. Oh wait...it was a world cl*** kustom. Never mind.
I'm getting way out voted this one. But I do know of a couple of coupes 35-36 packards and lasalles they are out there. They are not that rare or even desirable as a one of eight or whatever roadsters on the planet . All Im really saying is if you customize that car or a more common coupe the way OZ will do it "which will be bad *** I'm sure" what will the difference in appearence be? OZ could take a coupe turn it into a bad *** custom roadster a making it look the same as this radster could be. Or will it just be bragging rights that he has cut up a super rare car? Im all for cutting it up if its to a point where a resto isnt practicle. I was just trying to give an objective opinion thats all. We all know how sad it is to to see an old custom with history like a Barris or Burtolucci car get street rodded with some dumb *** pastel graphic ladden paint job and 20's on it. Isnt this kind of in a way the same thing? **** in 30 years somebody will be ruining all the OZ cars that are being built now. I was just trying to be objective thats all. Customs and original restored cars can all be cool in my opinion. LTR Dave
I think Dave studhud hit it on the head if it was a westergard car or a vintage indy car would you mess with the integrity of the car no way..a week ago Cab boughta 3 window 36 and everyone was giving him props for keeping the integrity of the car now your screaming cut up a 1 of 8 car ?? even Boyd would make no sense of that!!!! He would build a coupester as he has before on his show..unless you own the other 7 it is stupid and as a car guy $ is not my motivation to do this work the love of cars is...I love kustoms but this is not kustom material and integrity of the craft would honor that..not a pay check...
CUT IT UP!!!!!!!!! heres my 41 caddy coupe,,,,a pretty rare car,,,caddy purists are not happy,,,but i tell them i'm fixing the "caddy design flaws"..... now its even more rare,,,,probably the only 41 caddy 3 window coupe in existance,,(maybe not,,,but i TRIED to be original,,hahaha)
ha ha nice try i would cut that too!!!!1 that 41 isnt even close...Randy has a sweet 36 packard convt I rode in the car a paso the hydralics are wild but he kept the cars integrity thats what makes it so kool....And we all know its way easier to make a kustom than to restore..
The reason I bring up $$$ is because, at least where I come from, nothing is free and in the world of collector and kustom cars it's just down right expensive. Even if you have ALL the skills to pull it off it takes big $$$ to do it right, restored or not. studhud, I wasn't flamin ya. Just makin a point. True they only built so many but it's because it was a dog in the showrooms. The Packard 120 was kickin it's *** and was cheaper. If they didn't want it then what's it worth today? The same adjusted for inflation. Again the money thing. Not one person on this board can logically claim to be finacially irresponsible by choice. It's that real fact of life that gets in everyone's way. Why spend nearly $100K in labor and mat'ls to have an authentic car worth maybe $80K to the absolute right person. I possess all the skills to do either except the sewing (cuz I hate that ****!) and realize those skills are valuable. I'd kustomize that car in a New York minute and NEVER look back. How do you feel when you look at D'Agostino's "Gable"? I admire every line myself. It looks like what Darrin thought he was building.
I'm chopping up a 38 zephyr 3 window coupe right now the resto guys are probably way pissed but oh well! They made 5,100 37's 2,600 38's and 2'500 39's people have estimated that only 10% have survived if thats the case then there are only about 260 38's left. Thats rare but not one of 8 left rare! Maybe my thinking is way off but in the end why not do a coupe into a roadster? A coupe is way cheaper to start with I would think? LTR Dave
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