I might have to settle for a muscle car

I want a falcon soo bad but can't find a 2 door early 60's one i also like muscle cars but they are still hard to pick up i have just found some that are more in my price range then late 50's early 60's cars and the reason is if i don't find a car i might not have a place to work on it. I also want a 2 door and those are harder to get then four doors well i will still keep looking and if any one on here has a car and lives in b.c. Canada tell me. Also only having like 1500-2000 to spend kinda ****s

 

Here ya go, perfect project.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...m=170145210821&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=007

Even withshipping, this may be under your budget. Looks to be complete, and you'll have no rust to deal with.

 

I have a 1960 Falcon 2 door. Super solid body, floors, trunk, frame, sub frames, etc. Runs but has been sitting for 20+ years so it will need to be gone through. It has a clear Ohio ***le. $2000..

 

Kool but then i have to spend 1000 bucks to transport it then tax at border and lots of paper work so at the end of it all about 3500 bucks and then i'm broke and can't afford insurance but thanks for trying to help.

 

At the boarder there is only GST. You out one form called "Form 1". That is it. Its about $600 to get a car transported to Port Huron from Ohio.

 

Have you checked on the price of insuring
an old car with a beginner driver ?

 

It sure sounds like you've got a bunch of reasons for not making this happen. What deal are you getting on what muscle car where this stuff doesn't apply? You're 17? Get two jobs and save your money. Get a paper route, too. I made a ****ton of money when I lived at home by not having to pay rent and having two jobs, which accomplishes two things:
1. You get two paychecks.
2. You don't have time to spend the money.

Also, you might wanna get off the two-door tip, especially for a first car. They're expensive to buy and more expensive to insure. Think about it, while all the people you go to school with are driving their ****box Hondas with the fartcan exhausts, you can be driving 8 of your friends around in a sweet 50s car. So what, it's a 4-door, you gotta start somewhere. We got a 4-door hardtop '58 Olds for $875 running. You roll both windows down and the roofline's REAL close to a 2dht at a tenth the cost. Noone's gonna hand you a 2-door '49 Merc for that kinda cash, but you gotta remember that ANY 50s car is gonna be WAY sweeter than anything your cl***mates are driving. And, if you do a good job on the car, you can later sell it, combine it with another $2-4000 you made having two jobs and not paying rent or a mortgage and have something really cool. But, you gotta be patient and you gotta work your *** off. If it was easy, everyone would be driving chopped '49 Mercs with built flatties. People SETTLE for tuner cars. Don't let em tell you any diffferent...

 

I don't really know where to begin here. Are you looking for a "car" or a "project car"?

Is this solely a project car for you? Can you honestly say that it won't inconvenience you (or your immediate family) if the car is disabled for days, weeks, months (years) at a time? If so, disregard most of what I have to say.

If you are thinking about this as your one and only ride, needing to get you back and forth to work, school, everywhere... then I think you are headed for problems no matter what. This isn't to say it can't be done, but it's going to be tough -- especially if you are new to this stuff. Here are just some random thoughts:

- 50s era stuff is just plan harder to find parts for. Little mechanical bits that eventually wear out will involve ordering/waiting for delivery. This is a serious pain in the *** if you need the car to get you to work the next day. On the other hand, the 60s era stuff is almost invariably sitting right there on the shelf at any half decent parts store.
- The stuff that you can't order, you'll have to track down used. This can either be a lot of fun, or an incredible pain in the ***. If you're pressed for time... take a guess which it will be.
- Whatever you get, regardless of era... don't kid yourself. I've never owned a car where the original purchase price wasn't a rounding error in the total cost of ownership. If you can't afford to buy it, or if it takes up your entire budget.. you can't afford to fix it/drive it. If that is where you are at, then buy a beater for a daily and start saving while you look for exactly what you want. It ****s to have a cool project, and no money to be able to work on it.

Either way I look at it, I can't get past the point that you're 17 and just can't expect to fall directly into the car of your dreams. When I was that age, I really dug 32 Ford 3 windows-- and I still do. If I had held out for one, I would have been walking everywhere for the last 20 years. Start with something less ambitious, something you can get parts for, and something you can learn something from.. stick it out for a while and move on. You have a lot of time ahead of you, don't get impatient.

 

Theres still lots of cool early 60's cars for cheap. Falcons/darts/valiants are CHEAP and have lots of potential to be a nice hot rod.

 

two quotes that SHOULD NEVER BE TOGETHER......

 

That is very true mabe i will check out this four door falcon for 999.00 and maybe one day work up too a two door. Who cares how many doors it has as long as it's cool an old.

cheers thanks for all the help again and you guys will be the first to know when i get my first car.

 

You want to know how many decent cars I've bought for under $1000 in the last 2-3 years? Not all of them ran, but there were a lot that wouldn't have taken much - a few weeks of work and a $500 beater donor vehicle would do it. Some of them are even coupes. I had two chances to pick up a mid-40's Stude sedan and p***ed it up and kick myself now because the car is a '42, my buddy got it, and it's solid as they come - just needs a donor car to build. It would have cost me like $200. Being a Champion, some kind of 6-cyl 4-lug RWD car would have been the ideal donor - those are cheap anywhere.

But it's not like I need it with all the other cheap cars and projects laying around. Even with a $1500 budget it should not be that hard to find one you can get in and drive.

My friend there has a pair of Falcon coupes he'd sell cheap. $500 would take the pair away. The better car has some frame rail rot where the rear bumper mounts, but has all the floors in it. It needs a hood and trunk lid now - we sold them once to a guy and he took those and a carb. Even though there was a loose carb in the trunk. The ****py car, the rearend is falling out of, but it's a manual trans car and I think the hood and trunk will fit both (one a 60, one a '62). No one wants them, if we really had to get rid of them they'd have gone to junk by now.

Something like a 6-cylinder late 50's Chevy or Canadian Pontiac 2dr or 4dr sedan should be cheap, you just gotta poke around a little. a 6-cyl Ford would be cheap too, about two years ago a guy had a pair of '58 Ford Six tudor sedans in the paper for $600, one he claimed it ran and drove... I never did go look to see how rotty they were.

Like someone said, look in the cl***ified.

And if you have to settle, get yourself an S10 with a V6. Not because you want to do the minitruck thing, but because when you find a $200 late '40s pickup with a fairly decent body, you have a ch***is and running gear you can drop the cab and bed right onto. A local guy has like a '40 Chevy cab channeled on an S10 frame that he drives all over - it gets like 28 MPG and is so light it will spin the tires in 3rd gear. The S10 frame can be made to work under a 49-52 Chevy or Canadian Pontiac (115" WB car) too.

 

i reckon i would take the hit and settle for a hemi powered superbird or cuda if they got one layin around cheap up there! its not exactly what i want but us americans need to do whats right international relations and all and relieve the great white north of their muscle car surplus

 

very true and s10 frames work with 30s chebbie pickups and can be used on some willys body kits as well and the list of mods are endless , im not just a S10 frame fan , im also a client

 

Get a 4.3L one if you can. The 2.8's are gutless.