What car do you regret parting out?

Just remembered another I parted out and regretted later. It was a 1941 Mercury coupe. I bought it for $1.00 (that's right, one dollar) and drove it home. Very nice and complete: no rust, mint interior and glass, no damage. But no title. Had scruples then, would be different now. Friend had bought it from a farmer in Maine to get him home from college (to Philly) and had no further use for it without a title.

Drive train went into my 1941 Ford convertible, rest went to "Honest Joe's" junk yard in Chester, Pa. What a place. Could have bought a good motor from him for $10, but had a lot of fun roaring around the neighborhood after we lightened it up by removing all unnecessary sheetmetal. Neighbors and my Dad not too happy....especially when we took off the exhaust manifolds and ran it around the block in the middle of the night. It was as it looks in these pics taken earlier that day. I was driving it, but my buddies got the best look with it coming down the road with no lights on and fire coming out of the exhaust ports on the block.

Blew up the original motor in that 41 convertible when we put the heads back on with no had gaskets to raise the compression. It was a 24 stud version and with a good liberal schlopping of thick aluminum paint, ran like a beast...... for a little while.

This is the way it looked right before we pulled it in to yank the drivetrain.



Here's the convertible a coupla years later after I put the 54 Olds drivetrain in it. Then my brother put water in it and didn't drain it back out while i was away at college. OOPS. History.........

 

Oops, my tags were in my pants and they went into the washer.

My dog ate my tags.

My tags were abducted by aliens.

I loaned my buddy my tags and his wife threw them away.

The tags were the victims of a freak electrolysis accident

I'm glad he wasn't cloning a car.....just retagging a stolen one.:laugh: :laugh:

Seriously though, it doesn't bother me...... just having fun. :TU:

 

That's happened to you too, huh ??? o No:

 

The past looks so much more nostalgic in black and white.

What today's kids' children going to think when they see their parent's childhood on Hi-Def DVD?

 

No offense taken. He actually had a "salvage title" because the car he had was plucked from a scrap yard. State law wouldn't allow him to register it for street use. At the time he bought the parts it looked like his car should have been returned to the scrap yard.

 

He then bought a minted 318 Coronet to rebody his salvage car for your parted out tags.

The circle of life continues.......:laugh:

 

http://www.biddingatauction.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=818017884


This one? $8k seems cheap for this.