Atleast I get a rise, knowing there are so many idiots on here wasting their time hating on my car.
I can't speak for anybody else, but personally I just feel a bit sorry for your car rather than "
hating on" it. It's the victim in all this.
I don't understand the "restored" and "saved" type comments. It hasn't been restored and it has been transformed from one guise of ill-advised and badly performed personalisation to another. Modifying a car to a very personal and apparently somewhat random fashion just before putting it on the market doesn't seem to make any sense. In any home makeover show they'll tell you that a blank canvas is easier to sell, and that goes for classic cars too. If you are going to modify/customise, you need to do it to an accepted theme or classic style if you expect to pass it on to another owner for the best return. Most of all, you really need to
do the right thing by the car.
But what worries me - not for you, but for the next owner - is what appears to be a big gap in the story. We didn't see any of the repairs to the structural areas and the worryingly extensive areas of decay that were evident when you started chipping paint and filler off of it. You shared quite a lot of photos of your own work on the car, but then it went away on a flat bed truck for a long time and it all went quiet. When the thread came back to life it was as though a few pages had been skipped. You are talking about a "full restoration", but where's the evidence of it?
I'm thinking back to photos like these:
At the very least I'd expect lots of welded patches being let-in and fabrication required, with a fair skim of filler over the top to make good. Nothing wrong with filler, but it really does need to be on top of sound metalwork. Somehow I don't feel confident that this is the case in the tricky areas evident above. If I was a potential buyer I'd want to see how that was repaired.
Original photos of the engine bay from further back up-thread tell their own story:
Fairly grotty, wasn't it? How has that been tackled? Without talking the engine out (quite apart from a "nut and bolt" restoration requiring an engine rebuild...) I can't imagine it was easy or effective. If it's just been wire brushed, degreased and rattle-canned it doesn't really match the sales hype, does it?
Good photos of how the repairs were done, and done properly, might shut some of us up a bit as well as offering some reassurance to potential buyers.
