Coronet 440 drug out of woods...part or get running?

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Why would the car be scrapped? It looks pretty complete and solid from the photo.

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Let's pretend I said part instead of scrap.

To answer your question...time/money/storage space. Running/driving cars like this one don't sell for $3500 and this car needs to be brought back from the dead. I'd hate to do it but really don't need a ninth (or is that tenth) car to insure/garage/drive.

It's a neat car I like the column shift for some reason.

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I see no reason to part that car, unless you are hurting for money and want to make some off of it.

Once you scrap it, it will be one left in the world... I say save it... Or hook someone up who wants to get into the hobby and it looks to make a great starter car.

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Didn't you scrap a valiant?

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I see no reason to part that car, unless you are hurting for money and want to make some off of it.

Once you scrap it, it will be one left in the world... I say save it... Or hook someone up who wants to get into the hobby and it looks to make a great starter car.

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Didn't you scrap a valiant?

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That car is considered rust free where i live.

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10-fur...

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That is why we call it the Rust Belt

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Very smooth WIW post

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I am kind of offended by that. I have no interest in selling this car or it would be in the For Sale or WIW section. If you look at my history the one car I ever tried to sell had a WIW post.

All I am trying to do is decide what to do with it and now I know thanks to the constructive responses in this post.

I'll clean it up and get it running. We have more than enough spare parts to get it on the road. Thank you all for the motivation. The floors are looking a little thin from the top side but so far no holes. The spare tire well surprised me too. The masses have spoken.

and to my friend Tom for rescuing it for us.

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All I am trying to do is decide what to do with it and now I know thanks to the constructive responses in this post.

I'll clean it up and get it running. We have more than enough spare parts to get it on the road. Thank you all for the motivation. The floors are looking a little thin from the top side but so far no holes. The spare tire well surprised me too. The masses have spoken.

and to my friend Tom for rescuing it for us.

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Yes!

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I'll clean it up and get it running. We have more than enough spare parts to get it on the road. Thank you all for the motivation. The floors are looking a little thin from the top side but so far no holes. The spare tire well surprised me too. The masses have spoken.

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As a 66 owner I have been told on this forum that it has basically no value. You know what you're doing, that car is not worth restoring unfortunately. Get what you can from parts for it.

Sheldon

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Keep in mind that, in the moparts WIW section, typically any E-body, '68-'70 B-body, Hemi or multicarb car is considered uber-valuable and everything else is considered worthless. The real-world answer lies somewhere between the two extremes.

The internet has allowed us to be exposed to vehicles that we never would have seen or heard of otherwise, and therefore gives the impression that good deals are more plentiful and easier to get than they really are. This gives some people the impression that, since they saw a cherry original paint non-popular model go for dirt money, all vehicles of that model and in lesser condition are worth less-than-dirt. This is really prevalent here.

If somebody has told you that your car has no value I think that should be taken with a grain of salt. Your car looks pretty darn good to me.

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any E-body, '68-'70 B-body,

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Ahh the woodgrain years...and you are right on the pricing of things.

I gave some thought to the post above calling me out (on what I'm not really sure) and it is important that all of you realize the following things:

1) The inside of the floors of this car were COVERED in rust scale. Big, ugly chunks of it too. The pine needles filled up the cowl vent and this car got it's fair share of rain/snow sitting on the Eastern edge of the Cascade Mtn. range.

2) The car was sitting on four completely flat tires sunk into the earth when it was found.

All of that said when we talked of parting the car out we had not jacked it up and looked at it very close at all. I was leaning towards getting it running but figured I'd ask the opinions of other car folk before I started another giant project. I filled up my 5 gallon shop vac with rust scale from just the floors...all rust scale. I figured the floor pan would be totally gone but it's not. Same with the frame rails. I figured I'd find a spot somewhere on the cars and never did ( )which is very out of the ordinary in my experience.

On the subject of people's opinions of WIW on these sites I think generally the guys trying to "dictate" market value of cars a) use examples that are not comparable because they have never seen either car and b) wear their emotions on their shirt sleeve. The WIW section is largely a popularity contest these days. Say something another member doesn't like or agree with and your car just lost half of it's value in the WIW section.

To all of you guys that are telling me about rusty cars in Ohio, etc I understand. When my new boss in Oregon asked me why I wanted to transfer from WI I told him it was because Oregon doesn't use road salt. I got a funny look on that one...

Anyway, I did some google image searching and came up with a silver Coronet with a black top. Neat looking car don't you think?

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In Ohio that would almost be a new show room car.Here if its not a Flintsone mobile you are lucky.Rocky

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So true, so very true

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In reference to the picture above - I am wondering if the steering column is original to the car. Maybe a line worker had a liquid lunch and mistook blue for black?

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Floors are prepped for a top coat. I had to patch over a few small holes but overall not too bad.

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I used some light gauge steel and formed it to the two area's where the floor was a little thin with a ball peen hammer. I then used a heavy weight epoxy and glues the patches to the floor. It's not the best way to go but the metal is too think to weld (I think?) and the biggest hole was only the size of a quarter and not enough to replace the floor pan. I keep reminding myself not to go overboard on this one.

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I will try to remember when I get back out there after work today. Are you looking for anything specific?

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A few updates!

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Thanks!!

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You made the right choice.

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You'll have more fun with it than with a nice restoration.

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Good work! Never done upholstery before. Looks time consuming!

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Very Sweet ride you have .. i had one some time ago. this is what i id to the car. and yes i did sell it . why i don't know why.

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I like it! What was the car originally?