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Yes ...spend as much as you can afford up front, both my Chevelles were "finished" when I bought them, and still I manage to put lot's of time & money into both of them....because finished to one...isn't always finished to another.
Also...if you don't know a lot about old cars....find someone that does and have them with you while your looking at the cars.
What motors are in your car?
my buddy just bought a '71 Chevelle (ugly front sexy rear lulz) with the orig 307 in it but its not staying.
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I bought a goldfish, named it after my ex-girlfriend, and let it die. It's really the little things in life.
Then you are one of the rare ones that bought the car and left it alone. Most people cant help but tinker.
"Ohh look, we can swap in a new MSD ignition and make it look prettier! Or new valve covers. Hey look, it could use new rockers! Wait, why not just replace these heads? Damn, these pistons look a bit dirty, lets just rebuild this rotating assembly. Hey wait a second, a stronger first gear and an OD would help a lot, lets swap in a five/six speed!. Man, now my hood wont fit with this high rise intake/air cleaner, gonna need a new big block style hood. Huh, I need more rubber to put the power down, lets step up to some nice 17's. Damn, now I need more suspension to hold the car down......"
Its not necessarily a money pit because of things breaking (only managed to break a single flange on my vette for example.. nothing else has gone out), but because nothing is ever finished. You keep adding and changing and trying new things and sooner or later you've dropped an extra three grand just tinkering around.
How hard is it to find after market parts likes these for an older car?
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Procharged 10psi and lots of other goodies.
most of the stuff for the mainstream classic cars is easy to find. camaros, mustangs, chevelles, goats and things like that. many have companies that you can basically build a car from the ground up out of their catalogs. its just as easy, if not easier to find parts for most of these cars than it is for your late model mustang.
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1994 Mustang GT, just a few minor appearance mods, engine mostly stock (for now)
Then you are one of the rare ones that bought the car and left it alone. Most people cant help but tinker.
"Ohh look, we can swap in a new MSD ignition and make it look prettier! Or new valve covers. Hey look, it could use new rockers! Wait, why not just replace these heads? Damn, these pistons look a bit dirty, lets just rebuild this rotating assembly. Hey wait a second, a stronger first gear and an OD would help a lot, lets swap in a five/six speed!. Man, now my hood wont fit with this high rise intake/air cleaner, gonna need a new big block style hood. Huh, I need more rubber to put the power down, lets step up to some nice 17's. Damn, now I need more suspension to hold the car down......"
Its not necessarily a money pit because of things breaking (only managed to break a single flange on my vette for example.. nothing else has gone out), but because nothing is ever finished. You keep adding and changing and trying new things and sooner or later you've dropped an extra three grand just tinkering around.
haha yea i hear you on that one. trust me i WANT to tinker but the car has been in the family since '72, is 90% original (repainted and new seat covers in '75/76), and has never seen snow as it was in arizona half its life.
hell the thing only has 30k miles (with papers to help back it)
Finding parts for a SBC is probably the easiest thing you can do. You need something in a hurry? 90% chance that autozone or a similar chain will have the part in stock. You know all those ugly dress up things you can buy at those chains? Most are for SBC's. You need a new carb? Intake? Cam? They are likely all sitting on the shelf on display at those places.
Now car specific parts can be hard to find in a store, but there are literally hundreds of resources on line for it. ebay works great as well as craigslist if you want used parts.
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parts are soo easy to find for old cars, mustangs anyway. as stated you can literally build one - the chassis out of a catalog. I'm going to be buying one in near future, going for a clean body and frame, and a smaller drive line because I'm going to dump my money into that and the suspension.
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