Re: [Amc-list] Sunday drives

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 07 August 2007 22:23:01 adam young wrote:

> Your right Tom- Being 28 and a 7 month old in house it will make it tough
> to have $5grand to toss at my car. also time is  factor. so it it'll be
> $100 at a time and manybe 2 hours a week and if i am really good when bonus
> time comes around i might toss $1,000 at some seats and interior.
>
> luckly i have my wife is on board. She is definatly warming up to the idea
> of spending our sunday afternoons driving to car shows.

Well there you go!

> plus is there anything better then crusing in the fall? the leaves turning
> and the cool air in the window. Nothing to worry about except enjoying a
> nice sunday drive.

When these cars were ordinary "old cars" (5 - 10 years old), driving one 
around with terrible paint, bad interior and engine problems was, to be 
blunt, embarrassing to me as a car nut. It's one thing to be poor and not 
afford to fix it, or not poor and to not care! But if you are a car nut, 
and/or capable of fixing cars, to drive one in consistently overall bad shape 
is embarrassing.

I still feel that occasionally when I drive something like the 63 American 
(for a total of two days :-) -- but in fact there's absolutely nothing 
ordinary about a 40+ year old car resurrected from the grave, moving under 
it's own power down the highway. The twinge of guilt is just old habits. 
Right now in California I doubt there's more than 10 of the things driving 
down the road, period.

People are amazed and jaw-drop shocked to see a strange old thing that looks 
like nothing they've seen before. Even rough-looking the style and (today) 
alienness shines through. Even most old car people don't know what the hell 
it is.

So get it reliable (stopping not requiring a tree or abutment) and drive the 
thing! I bet if you scrub that exterior, while it still won't look good, it 
will look OLD! ANCIENT! It is ancient. It's a different sort of wear than 
neglect of a say 5 year old car. Old car nuts will recognize it. Non-car-nuts 
don't get why you don't want a new Honda, there's no pleasing them.
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