tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37353682.post5302952367210168912..comments2024-03-28T19:12:11.348-07:00Comments on Just A Car Guy: Tom Lieb bought his 1929 Ford, this very Model A roadster, when Eisenhower was in office, it just takes a while sometimes to get around to finishing some carsJessehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429349943129907930noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37353682.post-19121480520793659572016-09-17T21:55:48.966-07:002016-09-17T21:55:48.966-07:00wow... you should take and send in this note to a ...wow... you should take and send in this note to a magazine, with a photo or two, and get it published for money. Try Hagerty magazine. You're right, we can't keep them all... and it sure is cool though, that you kept your HoldenJessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18429349943129907930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37353682.post-83649564028836669202016-09-17T20:13:41.087-07:002016-09-17T20:13:41.087-07:00When I was 16, The car to own(as far as I was conc...When I was 16, The car to own(as far as I was concerned) was a 1964 EH Holden Premier sedan. Lowered, bombed up with a couple of webers, four speed, chrome and stainless, It was to be the road racing bomb. <br />I looked for two years before finding the car I wanted for next to nothing. They were always popular.<br /> <br />The problem at the time was that 60's cars were cheap, and redily available. It was often cheaper to buy another, than restore the one you already had. So, I would part out some and get distracted further with others.<br /><br />Many makes and models have come and gone since. All the big brands and some small ones. V8,6, and 4 cylinders. I wanted to try them all. Webers, strombergs, holley's, there was no end in sight, I was hooked.<br />Meanwhile the Holden kept waiting patiently for its turn.<br />I inherit from an old friend, a 1937 Dodge Roadster Ute.<br />The Holden sits.<br />I buy a house.<br />The Holden sits.<br />I wanted a Hotrod. The A roadster was born.<br />The Holden sits.<br />I think you can see a pattern emerging.<br /><br />Many times I had tried to convince myself and others. I was going to sell the Holden and enjoy the space it occupied. But I fought hard to keep it this long, and there is a point of which it starts to become more a member of the family than the dust magnet in the back of the shed. <br />To this day I still walk into the garage and see the Holden I wanted as a young fella, it just needs some work. It needs a little bit of the two things that never co-incide. Time and Money. <br />When I had the time, I didnt have the money. <br />And when making money, never had the time.<br /><br />I see red leather inside and metallic Roebuck Pearl with Fowles Ivory top outside. <br />It has all the best period correct bits to make it one hell of a neat package.<br />I dont see the surface rust, the shelves full of old parts, or the cob webs and flat tyres. <br />I can still hear and smell what that motor wants to be.<br />Its a tangable part of my past and represents another time and place.<br />I don't really know how it's managed to still be here, but I dont plan to let it go anymore. <br />Some times I take a cold sherbert with me and sit and look at it for a while, or dust it down once more and run my hands over it.<br />I still own the Dodge, I've only had that 20 years and still not sure what to do with it. Theres some sentiment attached, but it is a bit of a basket case and we can't keep them all. Can we? <br />It may have find a new home this year, or next.<br />And The A completes the stable. Full fendered, red hot 360 and 727. Owes me a fortune, but I accept that its money long parted.<br /><br />They represent a lifetime of buying and selling, the people the places and the blood spilt maintaining a garage fund from retrieving old parts from rusty wrecks. All while going to university, getting married and buying a home. Not easy work on a budget of fist all and nothing.<br /><br />I have actually thought before that the Holden chose me. <br />I never set out planning to keep it this long, it just kinda happened that way. Believe me, there have been others I wish I kept. '71 E49 Charger, '65 Prince Skyline GT, 350 Bathurst Monaro, or my beloved '59 pontiac! What the hell was I thinking? Why didnt I keep one of those?........you idiot.<br /><br />I figure, although Im reluctant to spend the night on the garage floor these days, Im not dead yet and stranger things have been known to happen. So.....<br /><br />The Holden still sits.<br /><br />And Yes, Im jelous of the R/T.<br />Some times it really doesnt matter how long it takes when they just look good sitting there.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br />Burkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00384997392394742133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37353682.post-53939717359890230782016-09-17T11:08:29.109-07:002016-09-17T11:08:29.109-07:00wow... I'm 46, and have been through a lot of ...wow... I'm 46, and have been through a lot of cars in those years, I never found the car I will hang onto until 2002. I don't drive it much, but I have hopes that someday I'll be able to afford to put enough money into it to make it right, my 1969 R/T. Whats your car?<br />Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18429349943129907930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37353682.post-68017222531658181952016-09-17T02:19:05.675-07:002016-09-17T02:19:05.675-07:00I have a car im my garage I started when I was 18....I have a car im my garage I started when I was 18.<br /><br />.....its getting there.......<br /><br /> Im now 47.<br /><br />I won't have it be said that I rush my projects!<br />Burkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00384997392394742133noreply@blogger.com