Ever just want to walk away from the old car thing?

great analogy ( is that the word?) moparmat2000. worth re reading s everal times and give it all time to soak in.

rrvolare, your car needs to be comfortable for you to enjoy it. me, I love manual steering and 4 speeds. but I have had them off and on for decades. sometimes these old cars are not what people invision them to be.

way back bout '90 I had a pasture full of old mopars. some , my keepers, some, for sale of trade. guy calls me, he was my age. I had bought a new 69 runner, 1969...... then got promptly drafted. he only got to drive it a few months. someone gives him my phone number, he wants another one. this is now 21 years later than his "original" purchases of a new runner.

yep I have a complete runnin, drivin 69 B5 blue runner, 383, all original, 4 speed even. it is typical I tell him. old 21 yr old paint and somewhat woreout interior. needs qtr, floor patches, runs down the road, needs RESTORED! he comes and look, w e drive it 10 mi down the road and back, he buys it.

can I recommend a body shop that will give it what it needs, not too expensive, and etc etc. yep I have a guy I recommend. and so there the car goes. he starts calling me every week wanting to know when his car will be done, this starts after the first week! I tell him to call the bodyshop, he does not work for me. he is his own guy! 6 weeks later, it has perfect paint job. great. this guy will quit calling ME! LOL

he comes and picks it up, drives it 60 miles to Kansas City where he lives, just about there he gets stuck in road construction. that very afternoon, when he gets home, he tells me how it started running hot, the seats are uncomfortable, it smells, the manual steering is a pain, shifting is work......IT just isn't like he remembers his old runner being like!!!!!!!!!!!! wants to sell it.....says changing the spark plugs would be rocket science for him......

I told him, like I told him in the get go, it needs restored to be like new, its 21 years old. and NO it is not as MODERN car. fresh paint doesn.t affect how it drives???????? I told him run an ad and sell it if not happy!!!!!!! he s ells it....... some things are just not meant to be?????????