Ray asks:
>One option would be borrowing. If you find a real gem, are
>there ways to finance it? Home equity loans are obvious, but not everyone
>has a home or a large equity. Are there other ways to finance a collector
>car? Has anyone on the list tried going to the car loan department of his
>or her bank and asked for money to finance a 30 year old car? After they
>finished laughing, what was the answer?
> Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
When I purchased Lady Chatterly ('72 Silver Shadow) a few years back I
used the Collector Car Loan Company. They specialize in ONLY collector
cars (albeit their name :-) I could look through my files at home if anyone
was interested in their phone number.
I was willing to spend the extra money (read: monthly payments) for the
roller
because the car was (apparently) in such great shape. In all fairness
to the PO, I did not have to refinish the wood... but I found out that
getting
bondo off of an aluminum wing can get pretty ugly =8-O
Some of you may remember my recounting how to rebuild an SU with
a piece of cardboard and vice grips during a maiden voyage across
Kansas. As it turned out, this was only the beginning of an intense
relationship that her engine and I got into over the next year and a half.
Of course the engine was nothing compared to rebuilding a brake system
that shared it's hydraulics with a self leveling suspension. Of course
while
the brakes were out, those wheel covers were getting a bit tatty... but
we all know where that leads... :-)
Scott (I'd probably do it all over again) Currier
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