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It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
Today I'm going to help you answer the questions, should I buy a
classic car now lately a lot of my customers are thinking about getting
classic cars because they say hey they're simpler they're easier to fix
there's not a lot of computer crap on them and of course that's true on this
Lincoln that's almost 50 years old the old carburetor went bad I was able to go
and buy a brand new one the same day at a local auto parts store there's still
parts available and there's only four bolts holding it on and that sure beats
the heck out of working on a variable valve timing fuel-injected modern engine
that can have thousands of dollars of parts instead of just a simple
carburetor to make it run and here lies something that you should understand if
you think about buying a classic car you want to buy one that there's parts that
are readily available for like this Lincoln it's a Ford there's many common
parts lot of them are still made and there's plenty of them lying around you
don't want to buy a Ferrari or a Lamborghini where it's going to bankrupt
you just buying the parts and let's face it
modern cars we don't have any style they all pretty much look the same with
plastic aerodynamic parts to get good gas mileage but really look there's no
Chrome everything's just painted the same color as the car though things like
chrome everywhere Landau roofs the old cars really have a
style of their own and when it comes to classic cars you don't have to be a
fanatic we're all the serial numbers match and you spend a small fortune
making it exactly the same as it came out of the factory you can do classic
cars economically if you want now sure they're not going to be worth what a
pristine original showroom car is going to be worth but they can be a lot of fun
and you don't have to throw out all that much money if you're careful now if you
are looking at a classic car here's one thing to beware of don't buy one that's
a Hulk of rust check for a lot of rust before you even think of
buying that particular one now this Lincoln may be 50 years old but look
when you crawl under and look around it's got one solid frame there's no
rust on it at all now it's easy for me here because this is a Texas car so it
doesn't have any rust so if you're really looking for classic cars you
might take a trip to Texas or buy one that's from Texas that comes with
pictures all around before you buy it to make sure it doesn't have problems now
being from Texas this car still has a factory a/c on it still does work but
don't expect to have working anything on most classic cars unless you're willing
to spend a whole bunch of money just doing the whole air-conditioning system
over or if you don't mind buy one without AC and put an add-on kit
on now since classic cars are a lot simpler you can do a lot of the work
yourself have fun get the enjoyment of doing that and still save a whole bunch
of money when you really think about it because when you consider the price of a
modern car versus an old classic that isn't a completely redone one it costs
thirty forty thousand dollars for a decent modern car and then you can find
classics all day long for a lot less than that and speaking of money if you
buy brand new $40,000 car after five or six years it's worth maybe one third of
what you paid for it but a classic car it might even go up in value over time a
much better economic choice there so if you're thinking about buying something
it has a little more class and certainly is a lot more fun you might think about
buying a classic, and remember if you've got any car questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer Channel
and I'll answer them as soon as I'm done driving this car.