hey guys welcome back its retired at 40 if you didn't catch our episode last
week I bought a storage unit it had a 34 Ford coupe hot rod in it oh my god
and I had a bunch of other stuff that I was gonna sell off and try and put an
engine in the the hot rod with that money in the meantime I've actually had
quite a few people that have responded to my classified ad for the the coupe
and had a lot of offers for trades nothing for purchase but a lot of
interesting trades so let me catch you up to speed real quick
so I've got the coupe all snuggled in here safe and sound and I just listed it
for sale about 20 minutes ago and I've got someone on the hook already for
another hot rod trade and we're gonna go look at it right now because it is sweet
hey how's going
it's a sharp little car
well it is a balmy 10 degrees here in Colorado this morning and as you can see
the Roadster deal didn't work out I've still got the car and it's been a couple
weeks and just as I was starting to get a little bit discouraged someone reached
out to me through my classified ad and it was actually the guy that built this
car originally which is pretty cool he gave me tons of information on it and
really added a lot of value to the trade or the sale of this car so the coolest
feature really about this car is the amount of work that they put into this
chassis this rear suspension is off of a c3 Corvette which means they had to do
quite a bit of modification to the to the original chassis to get that to fit
in there nice but I just I love this little cool arch suspension
it's got disc brakes all around and then he also told me that this front end is a
combination of c3 and a c4 Corvette so it's got Corvette suspension all the way
around the other thing I found out was this the shell is a Corbin out of
Atlanta Georgia and I looked him up and they sell for about 6500 dollars just
for the shell the chassis came from Honest Charley Speed Shop in California
and these are about ten to twelve thousand dollars just for the chassis so
I updated all the information that I had on the classified ad in this car and now
I have two people coming to look today one guy has a 67 Ford Fairlane that's
been pretty well upgraded it needs a little bit of stuff still
and the other guy has a 55 Ford Fairlane which is real real nice
and it basically needs nothing but he wants a little bit of extra on top of
the trades so with any luck we can do a little trading up hopefully and really
ideally what I wanted to do with this car anyway is trade it up for a lesser
car that was road worthy and ready to drive so I am absolutely no expert as
far as buying and selling cars but I've done quite a few and the one thing I
know especially on old cars is you have to know when to say when
and you always let someone else put all the expensive stuff into the project as
opposed to you because that's where you're gonna spend tons and tons of
money is paint and a motor and all that stuff is gonna add up really really fast
someone could easily dump twenty to thirty thousand dollars into this thing
before it's done so my thought is trade it for a car that's a little bit less
desirable car but it's Road worthy and it's ready to go you can be driven that
way I can either trade that car or I can drive it for a while and enjoy it and
then send it down the road to the next person and work on my next project
all right just as fast as it got here it's going away and now here's the new
67 Ford Fairlane I didn't even have the other guy come and look because I as
soon as I saw this I needed it so it's got a bored and Stroked 302 quite a bit
of upgraded stuff in the engine here it's just in primer there's no paint but
it's got new wheels and tires the interior is all freshly redone and
really nice shape
it sounds good it runs good it drives nice someone stuck a whole bunch of
money into the thing and I'm just gonna take it to the finish line which
shouldn't be too expensive so after selling off most of the other stuff
in the storage unit and trading off the 34 Ford I've basically got $2000 or $3,000
into this car and it's running and driving I can enjoy it or I can sell it
or trade it again and move on to the next thing
but there'll be more to come on this car I'm sure in the meantime this is retired
at 40 remember to live life simple and I'll catch you next week