"WindsorFox<SS>" > wrote in message
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> On 7/11/2012 15:42, john wrote:
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>>> Would you buy it?
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>>> http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2...-2/?refer=news
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>>> Patrick
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>> tires have to be new, they would have rotted,
>
> The current tires on my Thunderbird were purchased in about 1980 and
> still holding air.

I sold a Chevy 1965 barn find that had been sitting since 1985 still had air
in tires except one, but the tires were full of splits could not be driven
on the highway. I have another barn-find a 1963 Jag that is still sitting
since about 1986, all 4 tires total flats to the rim. Even a 93 mustang I
had,(ex cop car) the tires were way too hard 10 years later.

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>> the car must have been on blocks for 30+years
>> How did they keep it from rusting inside for 30+ years ?
>>
>> Engine bay was painted probably the rest of the car was too.
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>> All the wiring would be stiff as heck, brittle.
>
> Most of the vast majority of the wiring on my Mustang is not nor is my
> Thunderbird.

the 93 mustang I had some of the wires would crack open if you bent them,
but not all wires.

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>> looks like aftermarket steering wheel
>
> Looks right to me, but if it is, someone went way out of their way to
> get that Ghia thing in the center...
> http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_...0122_large.jpg
>

you are right, looks sporty

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>> gas system will be full of gunk
>
> Where are you getting all this? It hasn't been driven enough to get
> water in the tank.

If the gas tank was full or 1/2 full it would get water in the tank over
time just due to atmospheric pressure changes. I stored a motorcycle once
with 1/2 a tank full (no water) and 1 year months later it had about 2 cups
of water in the bottom, rusted the inside of the tank. A stored car will
pull in moisture from the air, it condensences as water inside the tank, we
used to store cars on blocks when we went out to sea for 6 months or more
(Navy) and would drain all the gas out.

I think the gas in the tank keeps the water from evaporating back out again.

Its easy to check it on the above car, just pump gas from its gas line into
a glass gallon jug and look at it.

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>> HP is far too low for me. Rather have a
>>
>> I buy performance, not how rare something is.
>>
>>
>> rather get one of these and put a 5.0 engine in it (with blower) no
>> mufflers;
>> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/4...bb765c0d10.jpg
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