<VV> "RESTORATION vs FIX IT UP" my ramblins again

[Mark Durham]

Karl, its a restoration for sure. There are different levels of
restoration, and well, Concour is tough, but I want my car as close as
it can be anyway, yet still allow me to drive it for another 20 years
or so. So, from the outside, it will look like the same old 62 2 door
coupe. Inside, the same, there is no intent to do anything accept
maybe put in three point shoulder harness seat belts in it.
Engine bay, there will be a 78 amp alternator, converted carbs (to
throttle bodies), but they will still look like carbs for the most
part, and a few sensors. It will have a harmonic instead of a pulley,
and the fuel pump and distributer will be gone, holes nicely plugged.
Nothing will look out of place to the casual looker, certainly we will
notice, but thats OK. I'm happy with that. Am I doing a restoration?
Yes, plus some upgrades. Only the purists are going to be naysayers.
If I wanted to do Concours, I could, and I respect those who want to,
but I don't. My car gets driven when the weather is nice.  Enjoy the
journey! Mark Durham

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Karl Haakonsen
<cityhawk at sprint.blackberry.net> wrote:
> Of course you are correct, technically speaking, but I count myself among the abusers of the word because there isn't another word in the english language that's quite appropriate.
>
>  I fixed up my 1963 Chevy pickup when I was in college -- built a 283 SBC with high compression heads, complete with Corvette valve covers, brazed sheet metal over the rust holes and smoothed their surface with a liberal amount of bondo and gave it a two-tone paint job of my liking. That's fixing up (with mods).
>
> "Fixing up" is way too casual for the work I intend to do to my Corvair. I am stripping the car down completely, putting it up on a rotisserie and cutting out and replacing all rusted metal. Overhauling the original 110 engine and PG transmission. I plan to paint the car factory original color and retain the black interior and top. People here have seen my rants about tires-- I want to keep the stock 13" 66-69 style hubcaps, etc and so forth. Yet I will inevitably make some mods for safety/drivability/urban security. I will take great care to make these mods as invisible as possible.
>
> Is this a restoration by definition for the purist? No. But there isn't another word that conveys the attention to detail and the thoroughness of the job than restoration, so I'll continue to use it, thank you very much.
>
> Karl in Boston
> 1966 Monza Convertible
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