I'm so glad I found your site! This is going to be a little longish...
I'm in the market for a "new" car and went to a classic car place to look around. I fell in love with the 1960 black hardtop w black/white vinyl interior, power windows, AC/Heat, all mirrors, power steering/brakes, and odometer reads 2543. The dealer knows the history of the car and says the engine only had 5000 miles put on it in the past 5 years. This elderly couple restored the car as their retirement project. When the wife passed away he sold it. This dream car has had two owners in between. I drove it and had a couple of issues. As it's been awhile since I drove an older car, the brakes seemed like I had to really press down to stop, steering a little loose, window got stuck while trying to roll up, heater got stuck on and I noticed a coolant leak. He had already told me about the exhaust leak in the manifold and that it needed a new compressor. He said that he would fix all of these problems and include it in the price because he had to fix them anyway. All of the problems I found, he said were minor. Were they? I plan to use this car as my daily driver. I realise that fuel efficiency is out the door, but are these cars easy to work on and get parts for? There's is nothing out there that comes close to the beauty of this car, at least in my price range. I'm thinking that the trade off for possible malfunctions is that the insurance/repairs are going to be cheap....I've had many people tell me that it's too much maintenance but the car is calling my name!
All of you lucky owners out there plz give me your two bits!
CG
PS I'll be bringing a mechanic with me when it comes back from the shop...
I'm in the market for a "new" car and went to a classic car place to look around. I fell in love with the 1960 black hardtop w black/white vinyl interior, power windows, AC/Heat, all mirrors, power steering/brakes, and odometer reads 2543. The dealer knows the history of the car and says the engine only had 5000 miles put on it in the past 5 years. This elderly couple restored the car as their retirement project. When the wife passed away he sold it. This dream car has had two owners in between. I drove it and had a couple of issues. As it's been awhile since I drove an older car, the brakes seemed like I had to really press down to stop, steering a little loose, window got stuck while trying to roll up, heater got stuck on and I noticed a coolant leak. He had already told me about the exhaust leak in the manifold and that it needed a new compressor. He said that he would fix all of these problems and include it in the price because he had to fix them anyway. All of the problems I found, he said were minor. Were they? I plan to use this car as my daily driver. I realise that fuel efficiency is out the door, but are these cars easy to work on and get parts for? There's is nothing out there that comes close to the beauty of this car, at least in my price range. I'm thinking that the trade off for possible malfunctions is that the insurance/repairs are going to be cheap....I've had many people tell me that it's too much maintenance but the car is calling my name!
All of you lucky owners out there plz give me your two bits!
CG
PS I'll be bringing a mechanic with me when it comes back from the shop...
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