Restoration Withdraws

[Mopar426power]

Well it is late January and I think I am having restoration withdraws. Have basically spent the last three years restoring my Cuda, there was always something to do, decisions to be made, parts to chase...etc. The car was finished last May and is great. The summer was awesome cruising, going to car shows, just being able to enjoy the car. The were many of summer Saturday evenings I would back the car out of the garage just to sit on my porch, work on a six pack while frequently getting up the wipe this, check out that, fiddle with this...

But when it has below freezing for a couple weeks now, one morning was -16 in Northeast Ohio last week, not too much car watching gets done, let alone car driving. Now I know what "long hard winter" means, not necessarily the weather, but months without a muscle car!

On the bright side is the wife's Duster is next on the list....but probably need another year or two to recover from the Cuda $$ and build up some Duster project funds.... Not sure anyone has heard but restoring these cars is not necessarily cheap.....

 

[don selleck]

If it gets real bad I'm in Michigan about 40 miles north of toledo,

 

[Tom's EK2]

Well it is late January and I think I am having restoration withdraws. Have basically spent the last three years restoring my Cuda, there was always something to do, decisions to be made, parts to chase...etc. The car was finished last May and is great. The summer was awesome cruising, going to car shows, just being able to enjoy the car. The were many of summer Saturday evenings I would back the car out of the garage just to sit on my porch, work on a six pack while frequently getting up the wipe this, check out that, fiddle with this...

But when it has below freezing for a couple weeks now, one morning was -16 in Northeast Ohio last week, not too much car watching gets done, let alone car driving. Now I know what "long hard winter" means, not necessarily the weather, but months without a muscle car!

On the bright side is the wife's Duster is next on the list....but probably need another year or two to recover from the Cuda $$ and build up some Duster project funds.... Not sure anyone has heard but restoring these cars is not necessarily cheap.....

Well it is late January and I think I am having restoration withdraws. Have basically spent the last three years restoring my Cuda, there was always something to do, decisions to be made, parts to chase...etc. The car was finished last May and is great. The summer was awesome cruising, going to car shows, just being able to enjoy the car. The were many of summer Saturday evenings I would back the car out of the garage just to sit on my porch, work on a six pack while frequently getting up the wipe this, check out that, fiddle with this...

But when it has below freezing for a couple weeks now, one morning was -16 in Northeast Ohio last week, not too much car watching gets done, let alone car driving. Now I know what "long hard winter" means, not necessarily the weather, but months without a muscle car!

On the bright side is the wife's Duster is next on the list....but probably need another year or two to recover from the Cuda $$ and build up some Duster project funds.... Not sure anyone has heard but restoring these cars is not necessarily cheap.....

I'm with you on "all that". 6 years on my AAR, finished, I mean on the road in Oct of last year. Now I have a whole new list of to do stuff. Minor things but a list of stuff. Wipers, new flasher for updated lights,hood seal for fiberglass hood, alignment, oil leak,redo exhaust,(back to original exhaust manifolds?),radio,trunk lid bumper stops and spring loaded hood wedges.
We had the same weather here in Indiana minus something stupid.
Love the cars and always something to do !

 

[gran coupe john]

Had to put off an alignment, due to a foot of snow. These cars are never completely finished. We are never satisfied.

 

[Xcudame]

I still don't know how you guys live where it's so friggin' cold! My hat is off to you! It was 22°F here this morning when I was walking the dogs. You all would probably love it that warm where your at! But I was freezing my a$$ off and I kept thinking how much I miss my desert summer dry heat in the 100s! Last week I had to add a heat lamp bulb to my well pressure switch to keep it from freezing! Any temperature below 20°F and it use to freeze up! No water sucks! Minus 20°F! That's 52° below freezing! I'd have to have a huge wood fire place burning a cord of wood to even consider visiting a place that cold! Keep the Mopar faith my friends!

 

[gran coupe john]

Got the garage up to 65 degrees today. Used up some wood doing it. Was worth it, because got the new break light wiring harness routed. The bad thing is, it doesn't work. Bought a new one because the old one wouldn't work. Don't know if these wires have anything to do with it?

 

[1972 AAR Cuda]

What do you know about the wire - where was it on the car, trunk, dash, engine compartment? I would expect it to be a power wire with the inline fuse and color, and an accessory since any fused standard component wires would normally go thru the fuses in the fuse block...
It looks to be orange from the picture which I have normally found to be tied to accessory lighting of some sort, usually under the dash, but the connector is throwing me off.

 

[340challconvert]

I know how you feel; it was -1 degrees (real temp) in New Jersey last week. I just got my A66 rebuilt 340 installed and needed to fine tune how it runs. Too dam cold to work on getting it running correctly!

 

[Mopar426power]

One good thing is the first couple of really nice days in April / May make it really cool....like having a new girlfriend again....

 

[gran coupe john]

Disregard those wires, they are not e body parts.

 

[michiganhotrod1]

I am privleged to have a garage to keep my stuff warm, etc. But I need to re-engineer the Dr. Diff disc brake conversion on the Cuda. On my back. On cold concrete. With daily highs forcasted in the teens. I thinkI will do some work on the 1917 house restoration instead!
Mark

 

[Xcudame]

You show state guys are tough!

 

[KlsCuda]

we hit -20 F here in Maine a week or so back. I just pack the Cuda away in the garage until spring. check it for mice once a week or so but otherwise we hibernate until April.

 

[Challenger RTA]

Not sure anyone has heard but restoring these cars is not necessarily cheap.....

Yeah. When it comes to buying parts. When walk out of the garage. I think of the three houses I keep paying taxes, material and work! I hear a narration. "You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop—The Twilight Zone." " It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. My garage! " So I turn around and go back into the garage. And I get the parts!

 

[Xcudame]

let's see. -20 is 52 below freezing. Add 52 to 32 is 84. I will never complain about my triple degree summers again!! And here I thought 14 degrees was freaking cold!

 

[Mopar426power]

-2 in Ohio this morning.... And I checked on my car this weekend also, checked the battery tender then pulled the car cover back down. Is it May yet?

 

[gran coupe john]

A little warmer in southern Ohio, 8 this morning. Still cleaning up tar on the splash guards in the house where it is warm. Next week looking good to put them back on car, in the garage.

 

[Challenger RTA]

Hang in there. There is a heatwave coming. 20s and 30s. Then it's all Slide, slide slippy slide ride, it's short winter ride to high times. Id rather see feet of snow than any bit of ice. On the flip side. How are the mates from down under doing.

 

[Challenger RTA]

When you get hit so many times it just doesn't seem to mater. You ignore it or make something of it.