Thinking about buying a 49 chevy 2 door car

[Zach B]

So I already have one project already that I have not even purchased body parts for and now I'm thinking of a second. My 47 chevy half ton is a project I have that is stalled for a little bit because I have my last year of high school to go through. With school I only have weekends and a few hours after school to do anything with the truck so I really need something I can tinker with to keep from loosing my mind. The car is in a lot worse shape than the truck so in my mind its perfect for this. I personally think I have stumbled on a good deal that I can't pass up. My uncle actually owns the car and was talking about scrapping it. I figure I can pay the scrap price for the car and I'm doing it a favor just by buying it. I'm saving it from the crusher and it Gives me something to tinker with when I have no time to work on the truck. Now the catch is getting the money when I have no idea how much scrap goes for but I'm figuring at least $200. The body is actually very strait for something we pulled out of the woods 5 years ago and all that is wrong with it is some rust out on the drivers side rear fender and a caved in passenger side fender. That's what I really want to tinker with because I have a plan for this car. I have a 66 292 I got from my auto tech class I can modify and turn into a hotrod engine. It's something g you don't see a lot so its different and brings that look back into the old cars where all they had were flathead v8, inline 8, and inline 6 engines. What made me think of this was actually an article in an old newspaper from the 40s I have talking about how people were racing with 216 engines with over 200 horses in them. It got me to thinking how back in the day you just figured it out. You didn't take a 350 and place every good brand of racing parts on it to make it go fast. You looked at the engine and said I wonder what I can do to make this thing faster and you played with it burning up a few engines along the way until you had it right. The truck is going original because of a rarity to the year but I see these cars all the time. I'm not going to modify it to the point that bringing it back is to difficult but I want to see what it's like to drive a modified car like that not much different from the days of the moonshine runners. I will be sure to post if I buy the car. I'm confident that I will but it may be a few months.
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