Have you ever asked yourself "What have I gotten myself into?"?
 

I just did. I just took in something very different from what I'm accustomed to.
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This project was started about twelve years ago in Maine. It's been passed from one shop to another with not a lot getting done other than take it apart and cut it up (and bill the owner). I've been negotiating this job for about five months. It finally arrived...........in pieces.

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It will be a complete "frame up" restoration. Also going to be ridiculously expensive.

Great! Keep us posted as to the progress.

For those of us that don't know what it is....what is it?

1953 Mercury 4 door w/Flat head V8 and Auto trans.

My God, what have you done?

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Umm... I can see why you may possibly be thinking that...

But I'm sure some logic came into the purchase decision :)

Not a purchase on my part. I'll be on the "getting paid" side of this transaction.:cool:

Every damn day.

But not for the reasons you're likely to soon be asking that question. Welcome to the club. I feel your pain bro.

Kevin: Looks like a lot of work. Hope you got a healthy deposit........

Not with a car...


In a slightly related note, I just came back from a Cub Scout Committee meeting... ;) :eek:

The biggest single deposit I've ever made ! :D

Been there done that...

Like anything in life - big projects are like eating elephants...got to do it one bite at a time.

Yup... See the link in my signature on my Corvair restoration. I'm two years and almost $50k into it and I'm only about 65% done. Good luck! Above reply is right... One bite at a time.

To answer the original question, yes.

It involved agreeing to go to the wedding of my girlfriends cousin. The wedding took place in a 'church' that looked like someone had put a roof over a couple doublewide trailers in Pontiac, MI. There was a forging plant of some kind just up the street, and the floor would shake when the gigantic presses would come down. The music was played on a cassette deck that required someone to hold down the play button. Later, at the reception, the groom was nowhere to be found for the first dance, because he was out in his Camaro smoking a joint....with his dad.

I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise up and down the road....

This should be a long thread....keep us updated please ;)

Yes, many many times.....

The better question - why is the owner paying the money for a frame off on that car?

With that car it has to be something the owner is sentimental about.

Original question - I ask myself that a lot about the Volvo that I'm almost finished restoring. Mostly regarding the f*king soundproofing material that makes the interior almost impossible to put back together.

I remember thinking exactly that as I looked at my 911 after I had removed the entire rear suspension. I was wondering how I could ever get it back together and on the car. The front suspension was easy.

I always wished I had a local shop I could go hang out at and watch and learn how to do that sore of restoration work.

BTDT too...we'd make outstanding JWs....spreading the word about our church of rebuilds and restorations!

That's John Walker btw ;)

My problem with restoring something so ordinary as that 4dr object, is I just can't get enthused about it. Why did I take this in? Best to bail now before regret sets in.

Make it into a 2dr.

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