restoring a old roadster back to stock. Seattle

[40 Deluxe]

Originally Posted by 700rpm

Why not try for show car? You've got a lot of work ahead of you, so you may as well go for the top.

Good luck, and keep us posted.

My thought would be to forget about the 'show car' thing. You are in for a lot of work (but enjoyable work) and will feel justifiably proud of it when done. So now you would take it to some show and have a bunch of self-proclaimed 'expert' nitpickers criticizing little details?? Why lay out huge dollars for the correct cotter keys in the brake linkage or the original air in the tires?! Plus getting a sore butt from sitting in a lawn chair all day! Just make it a 20-20 car and enjoy driving it!

[700rpm]

Originally Posted by 40 Deluxe

My thought would be to forget about the 'show car' thing. You are in for a lot of work (but enjoyable work) and will feel justifiably proud of it when done. So now you would take it to some show and have a bunch of self-proclaimed 'expert' nitpickers criticizing little details?? Why lay out huge dollars for the correct cotter keys in the brake linkage or the original air in the tires?! Plus getting a sore butt from sitting in a lawn chair all day! Just make it a 20-20 car and enjoy driving it!

Sorry. I don't agree. "Good enough" seldom is, and he (or someone else) will end up doing it over. In Hitchhiker's case, it sounds like he has the time and interest to do a good job, and I think it is worth encouraging that attitude. It doesn't take that much more to do a job right.