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Originally Posted by Hydrae
I love hot rods as much as anyone but if that thing is mostly stock, you have to restore it. I will someday inherit the family 1924 Oakland that my grandfather pulled out of a barn in '59. He worked on restoring it (still has the original motor and some original interior material even) and my dad and I have been re-working it the last couple of years. Were all set to take it a show last year but had an oiling issue on a couple of cylinders that seized the motor so we are rebuilding yet again.
My siblings all know me and my love of hot rods and tried for a long time to convince my dad that he shouldn't pass it to me (the oldest) because they were sure I would turn it into a street rod. While it would look great that way and certainly be unusual, there is no way I would do that to a piece of automotive history like that. If it was a rusted hulk in a field, absolutely do what you want. If it is mostly stock, it should be preserved to pass along history.
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It's all stock, but at some point someone robbed whatever was left of the interior out of it. It was parked in a storage building left over from when the family owned the telephone company and it just sit there for decades until the foundation popped and I needed to tear it down. Put a 5 gallon bucket on the plywood floor, popped it in neutral, and pulled it down the road a few blocks to its new dust collecting home a few years ago.
The motor will roll by hand, but I didn't go any farther than that. The metal is all there and decent but the top is just a flimsy shell as it had the panel top and supports. The guts of the trunk are rough but it looks like you can damn near buy every piece of these coupes.