I sent the following message earlier this week, and have received a lot of
requests for
photos. I decided to post them to my website to make it easy for those of
you interested
in the car to view. They can be seen at skyboom.com/mcinns
Mark
> I just recently found the Roadster Page while searching for roadster
> websites. I've owned a '69 roadster 2000 for about 10 years. I bought
the
> car in Colorado as a basket case, and dreamed of putting it on the road.
> When I bought the car, I was told the engine was good, but the car had
> "transmission problems". I proceeded to have the engine cleaned, and
found
> out that the car in reality had engine problems. The pistons were all
> cracked. After having the head rebuilt, new pistons bought, new oil pump,
> new tensioner parts, I found that some timing gears were also cracked. I
> put it back into storage, and its been there since.
> My brother suggested I put a newer engine in the car since the body panels
> are
> in such good shape, but I have not found much information on the subject.
>
> What I do know is that there aren't many roadsters in this part of the
> country, and most that are, are rust ridden.
>
> Since I am a novice about cars, I am now wondering how to find out the
value
> of the car parts, if I want to just part out the vehicle. I looked at a
> Ralleye site, and it appears the parts may be worth more than the whole.
> Any comments? If anyone is interested in the body, or other parts,I can
> take
> some digitals and e-mail them.
>
> McInns-Iowa
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