I like to restore cars as a hobby (expensive habit #1) and I sometimes purchase older vehicles with the dream of fixing them up (questionable habit #2), but then run out of time (really bad habit #3). So I've finally decided to sell some of my "habits". They run 18 to 48 years old. I'm not looking to get antique prices for them, I just want these vehicles to go to someone who is interested in either restoring them or using them as parts cars for vehicles which have been restored. Price range: "$0.00 to $makeoffer" and come get it. DON'T ASSUME anything is priced out of your reach, CONTACT ME! Take one and you can:

• Fix it up and own a transportation vehicle with NO COMPUTER to fail, a real metal timing chain, actual rear wheel drive (NO constant velocity joints), and relaxed smog requirements.
• Own one replacement for every part on a more important car you are restoring or driving. You can own a spare transmission and axle, or you can be rebuilding one engine while driving the car, then swap engines when the time is right. Use just a few parts and it will be like getting the rest free.
• Sell the parts you don't want and keep what need. You can get your spare parts stock and make money too.

1) 1976 Buick Century, Custom. With original factory manual! Driven regularly until it was parked just a year ago. High mileage, but burns no oil. Needs

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copper starter washer that always goes bad in GM solenoids. No problem .... brand new starter furnished ... and they are a breeze to install on the 231 cu. in. V6 because the bolts go in straight upwards. Almost new, professionally rebuilt Turbo 350 transmission replaces the original ... it's the heavy duty V8 transmission with the extra clutch plates, cost $350.00. Guaranteed good. Plastic timing gears have been replaced with all steel gears and chain. Good radial tires and the nice chrome Buick Custom wheels: 2 good, 1 damaged but fixable, 1 really damaged but fixable by someone with rim straightening equipment. Body has rust holes around rear windshield, naturally, and water has rusted the trunk, but no holes. Some dents, but body parts are all salvageable with varying amounts of effort. Power steering and new power brake unit. Factory A/C w/radial compressor does not work. We even have the original "damage proof" fold over hood ornament that was held on by string. According to Peterson's, this model has one of the longest hoods ever put on any production GM car, similar to the classic Chevy Monte Carlo.

2) Two Toyota Corollas 1979, and 1978. With original factory manual! The 1979 was wrecked in a head on collision, but it's solid design saved the life of a family member who received only bruises. The only straight body part on the car, the trunk lid and lock, were damaged by the idiot cop who pried the trunk open (without a warrant) because he just couldn't figure out why I wanted it towed home instead of to the junk yard. This vehicle is free to the person who buys the 1978 which was virtually identical in design. Lots of good swap parts.

Want to have some fun? This little Toyota is an almost perfect platform to build your own electric/gasoline hybrid vehicle. A mechanical engineering student at the University of Florida borrowed my air chisel and did exactly that with a similar car. (Now he designs Hewlett Packard printers....sometimes I'm struck by the similarities :-) If you have either one of these Toyotas then you know what a replacement transmission or axle costs. How would like to have two spares for next to nothing. Both cars available to the right party....CHEAP. Good tires, both are towable with the front end lifted.

3) 1983 Toyota Celica. With original factory manual! This sporty Toyota 5 speed needs a clutch. Not to worry....brand new clutch, including re surfaced flywheel and pressure plate, furnished...just put'em in. This hot little 4 cyl. has an overhead cam and STEEL internal timing chain. Factory tachometer in the dash. Rear wheel drive like God meant cars to be :-) Has not been driven in several years. The engine is good, but needs a front crank oil seal....a fan belt disintegrated and the fiberglass reinforcing wrapped around the crank behind the balancer chewing up the seal. Can be replaced from the outside and the new seal is furnished (pull the balancer and radiator, of course). Expensive factory mag wheels (see photo) with lug nut locks (yes, you get the key). Nifty heater below the carb to prevent puddling makes this engine start like a dream in cold weather.

This vehicle got raves from the auto magazines when it first came out and was so well built that many put 200,000+ miles on the odometer before a rebuild. One big rust hole in the left rear fender that you can stick your fist through....formed after the car was parked. Fixable, like the mildew on the vinyl interior that formed as a result. I recommend this as a parts car for the aficionados that plan to keep their beloved Celica running forever. But this car is restorable by the right person. Has something like 140,000 miles on it (didn't check before I started writing this). Purchased used, but I only put the best Valvoline Racing Oil in all my street vehicles, so it burns no oil and the bearings are good.

4) 1965 Chevy Bel Air 4 Dr. (No manual, but who needs one?) Haven't you ever wanted a great classic road car that wasn't loaded with failure prone computers, smog devices, exotic carbs, or a distributor with vacuum hoses leading off in all directions? Something roomy, powerful, and easy to fix by the roadside if anything goes wrong? You could cruise all over the US in such a car and see the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Vegas, Colorado's high mountain passes, and even Mickey Mouse. I dream of such things mostly at tax season. That's what I had planned for this car. I hate to sell it, but I just don't have the time to restore it. Put halogens in that four headlight array and I promise those folks who never dim their lights will take notice. You could also easily spot a deer standing in the road 1320 feet away.

This car needs a lot of work. The 283 (2 bbl) engine is sound, but it ought to be replaced with one of the larger Chevy stove bolt series engines. The Powerglide 2 speed transmission might make a good boat anchor or an authentic spare for someone with a true collector car. This vehicle will accept virtually any big engine/transmission combination Chevy has produced and still qualify as "stock". I'd put in a Performance Automotive Warehouse 350 (http://www.pawinc.com) with a Crane Energizer cam (http://www.cranecams.com) and an Art Carr street/strip transmission (http://www.artcarr.com). I like those stunned looks I see in the rear view mirror as other drivers realize they're floored and I'm effortlessly pulling away from them (and that nice little tire chirp going into third gear). To enjoy such good clean fun, the new owner of this vehicle will have to redo the interior, fix some rust, do a little suspension work, and put some muscle under the hood. In return, he'll have a vehicle that's reliable, a joy to maintain, increases in value, is exempt from smog controls, qualifies for low cost antique license plates, and will stand the "Stoplight Grand Prix" crowd on their collective ears.

Bring it back and give me a ride and I'll treat the buyer and a friend to the best dinner in town :-).

5) 1952 Ford Aircraft Engine Oiler. (Manual? You must be joking.)Now listen up folks, this is something really unusual and interesting from several viewpoints. This nifty little tanker was designed to park under the wings of large propeller aircraft and pump warm oil into the engines in freezing weather. It heats the oil by forcing it (closed loop)through a pair of huge pressure relief valves with a truly massive engine driven hydraulic pump....thereby generating heat. The tank appears to hold perhaps 1,000+ gallons of oil. A welded ladder leads to the flat tank top which is designed to support aircraft service personnel. The under carriage is extremely heavy duty. A roll out hose assembly contains a nicely made (non sparking) brass filler nozzle and there are a variety of gauges to monitor performance. All wiring is routed through copper tubing with flared ends and brass fittings to explosion resistant housings. This could easily be the last truck of it's type in existence.

This truck's last hurrah was delivering diesel oil shortly before I obtained it. So far as I know, everything works including the flathead V8 engine, but I have never run it. Restored, this truck would be perfect parked on a dirt runway under the wing of a vintage bomber owned by the Confederate Air Force. The film industry pays big bucks to rent such movie props for stories about the Korean war, exploration of Alaska, or the cocaine war in Bolivia, etc. Or, someone who needs to operate heavy diesel engines could make real use of this truck for refueling. A truck is a truck....give it a modern engine and put it back to work. You might even use it to blend fuel grade alcohol with other fuels using the pump (I would bypass the relief valves). Such vehicles just aren't built anymore and it would cost a fortune to custom produce one with these features.

I saved this little Ford tanker truck because it would be a shame to see the last of it's kind cut up as mere scrap. I'm hoping someone out there will have an interest in restoring it.

Finally: Why restore them? Because the design lifetime of a new automobile is approximately 7 years. After that, it was literally designed to fail in ways that will deprive the buyers of everything they invested. If any other investment performed that way the public would be standing in line to sue those responsible. And every time it happens, society suffers a terrible price. Not only for the pollution, but also for the labor costs, energy expenditure, and dwindling resources necessary to manufacture another vehicle all over again. Car restorers break this damaging cycle and often manage to preserve their initial investment as well. Where would you put your money?

I've owned these vehicles for years, I'm not a dealer. I'm more interested in finding someone who can use them than in profit. If you're interested in acquiring anything, please make arrangements to see them or make an offer. After a few offers, they're gone.