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I know someone has their eye on it. I've seen quite a few pics of it.
 
cjltlc said:
I thinking about sending my nephew to look at it, (if he answers my email) I have to go out there with a trailer in a month or two, and I think it is illegal to haul a trailer back across the country empty. (especially when mostly rust free Cruisers are available)
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Interesting...say this one sells, and you have an 'empty' trailer, what would you charge to bring back a cruiser, or a tub...say from CO, or AZ, or CA?
 
Well I talked to the guy and I think a deal has been made. I'll be hooking up the car hauler this weekend and heading out. Nice thing about three day weekends, plenty fo time to head a state or two away a pick up items. Map Quest shows going up north and then cut across the Rockies. I thinking it might be better to take I40 and then head up the east side of the Rockies. What do you guys think?









































































Hope you guys didn't take me serious.:lol: Remember this is the chat thread:grinpimp: I'm finally getting a garage built up at the cabin. If I were to go and buy another cruiser now I would be lucky if I was able to still have the cabin so I could live in the garage. More than likely the locks would all be changed by the time I got back:rolleyes: The 1961 I just bought put me way over my limit:whoops:

Serious this looks like a cruiser worth saving. I know Dean also found another one that looks like a good find just a little to new for me. If I had unlimited funds and space I would be buying this all up and then opening up a business to restore them all:cheers:
 
Living in the Past said:
Well I talked to the guy and I think a deal has been made. I'll be hooking up the car hauler this weekend and heading out. Nice thing about three day weekends, plenty fo time to head a state or two away a pick up items. Map Quest shows going up north and then cut across the Rockies. I thinking it might be better to take I40 and then head up the east side of the Rockies. What do you guys think?


Hope you guys didn't take me serious.:lol: Remember this is the chat thread:grinpimp: I'm finally getting a garage built up at the cabin. If I were to go and buy another cruiser now I would be lucky if I was able to still have the cabin so I could live in the garage. More than likely the locks would all be changed by the time I got back:rolleyes: The 1961 I just bought put me way over my limit:whoops:

Serious this looks like a cruiser worth saving. I know Dean also found another one that looks like a good find just a little to new for me. If I had unlimited funds and space I would be buying this all up and then opening up a business to restore them all:cheers:
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Is this what you are building...except for cruisers --> Another Road Trip ...cause then you'd have more room :lol:

Man, that place is awesome!!!

John, check your e-mail :hillbilly:
 
No Dean I said if funds weren't a problem. I would probably need more room than that guy has since all mind crap needs to be restore not just stored:frown: I wouldn't mind having a early camaro or GTO. But would have to sell all my cruisers just to get one. That's not going to happen. Might make the better half happy:rolleyes:
 
Living in the Past said:
No Dean I said if funds weren't a problem. I would probably need more room than that guy has since all mind **** needs to be restore not just stored:frown: I wouldn't mind having a early camaro or GTO. But would have to sell all my cruisers just to get one. That's not going to happen. Might make the better half happy:rolleyes:
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Ha, funny you should say that...my wife would rather I had an old '66 GTO, or an old Camaro SS. Actually, one of my dad's friends has a '66 goat, 6pack and rag top...very nice car!!!
 
I've been able to delay finishing my wife's Cruiser for a little while.
That is until she gets bored with the 84 Monte Carlo SS, I got her for a Birthday/Christmas gift
 
Several months ago I offered up my 25 for someone to finish my wife's 40.
No takers.
So when she get back from her third deployment she will have a new toy, just not a Toyota.
Is there something about people that have LC's (some unwritten law or a chemical imbalance in the brain) That requires us to have a dozen unfinished projects going simultaneously
 
cjltlc said:
Several months ago I offered up my 25 for someone to finish my wife's 40.
No takers.
So when she get back from her third deployment she will have a new toy, just not a Toyota.
Is there something about people that have LC's (some unwritten law or a chemical imbalance in the brain) That requires us to have a dozen unfinished projects going simultaneously
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If I was closer, and thought I could do it (it's one thing when you do work for yourself) I would have taken you up on your offer :frown:

Hope she likes her new toy :beer:
 
Another unfinished project. Can't raise the ducts? Do a chop and channel on the furnace.

Fortunately, the Sawzall, 6# hammer and speedi-dri are never far away when you work on rusty leaky Cruisers.
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Jim is that the suppy and return ducts both going into the top of the furnace? That is something I'm not used to seeing. The whole basement thing is something I'm not used to seeing. I told you I was just a plane ticket away. Wouldn't know what to do with that much room to work with. Out west if it's not on the roof they put it in a tight closet or in the attic. I'm lucky the air handler for the heat pump is a little smaller then the electric furnace I'm taking out of a small closet at the cabin. After I'm finished I'll even be able to change the filter without bending and twisting to get it out.:bounce:


I probably would have gotten that out without having to cut it up. Out west our cruisers aren't all rusted up. We need porta-powers to straighten things. Can't just form things back in place by hand like you guys in the rust belt. :rolleyes: A couple of porta-powers and I could have lifted the whole house off the furnace:idea:
 
Living in the Past said:
A couple of porta-powers and I could have lifted the whole house off the furnace:idea:
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Ha, you would have had to, the ducts arre tight up against the floor joists. I cut the furnace because I didn't want to disturb the A/C. :eek:

I fought a wet basement for years, finally built a front porch and it went away. :lol:
 
Looks like a early 64 to me. Lack of the high post on the B pillar and the latch and hook to hold up the windshield were a 64 model change. The VIN is FJ4019530. There should be a number to start the VIN, either a 3 or a 4. Curious what VIN is on the frame is. Dean what does your VIN start with? Is this one's VIN higher or lower than yours?
 
Living in the Past said:
Looks like a early 64 to me. Lack of the high post on the B pillar and the latch and hook to hold up the windshield were a 64 model change. The VIN is FJ4019530. There should be a number to start the VIN, either a 3 or a 4. Curious what VIN is on the frame is. Dean what does your VIN start with? Is this one's VIN higher or lower than yours?
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This one would be a couple thousand older than mine, so that would make it what...at an average of 450 per month (making mine a mid Oct '63 to early Nov '63) this one would be around a June '63 manufacture date. This correct? Seems pretty old to have the short posts!
 
I guess the high post and latch for the windshield could have been a mid year change. The transmission was for sure a mid change. I have a catalog from SOR from 1991 somewhere. The price pages in the back had a better month/year break down than now. But even back then the three speed transmission was just listed as a mid change no month. I now wonder if the soft top model change mid year too. Most early soft top models seem to have a 61 or 62 production date.:hhmm: The more of these old cruisers that pop up gives us a litte better clue to what happened when. Seems I read a tread somewhere on Mud that the early cruisers in australia didn't have their VIN plates stamped. This maybe why the VIN plate didn't have the first number:confused:
 
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