i have a 64 olds f-84 4dr with a 394 in it and it has been sitting in my garage since i has little and it has little surface rust adn the paint is faded. also the interior is well for the most part "weathered" and i was wondering how much it was worth as is and how much it would be worth if i restored it

 

It is difficult to say how much the car is worth without seeing it in person. Don't put any money into it if you plan on making bundles of cash. A 64 F 85 4 door isn't the most sought after car; therefore, you will be lucky to make as much selling it as you put into it. I suggest you build it how you want it and just drive it.

 

its not a cutlass f-85 i dont think im going on here say of my dad i just wanna make the thing run and look nice its my first old car

 

I'm restoring mine and it has a 330/250 5.4 Liter engine. I don't think yours has a 394. I found mine in a Dallas museum in decent condition. Drove it from Dallas to Houston the day I picked it up. Paid $6300 for it simply because of condition and it will haul six big people easily. New shocks, sway bar, tires, hoses, belts, ball joints upper and lower, now about $7500 into it. Will have it painted original colors, minor body work, only one small rust thru in rear quarter panel. Interior like new, just old. Will probably have $10,000 in it when completed. Where can you go buy a solid heavy car for that kind of money? Finished vaule estimated to be about $13,000.00 based on comments from show goers.

 

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like a nice car.

Just one thing: Seeing as how we can't read your mind through the interwebs (yet), would it be possible for you to write in comprehensible English (I can passably read Spanish, Italian, and German if English isn't your favorite)?

I honestly have no idea what the sentence above means.

- Eric

 

Didn't seem so hard to follow; the fellow was suggesting that he was going on "hearsay" from his father initially when he said it was a 394 equipped F-85.

 

Oh. I see.

I was parsing that section as "It's not a Cutlass F-85. I don't think I'm going on here. Say of my Dad," which seemed nonsensical. I read it over a number of times, and never picked up on the presence of the word "hearsay."

As I said, intelligibility can really help you get your message across.
Little things like capitalization and punctuation can be amazingly effective at increasing intelligibility.

Call me what you will, I have no patience for crap like that - if you can't write a coherent sentence, then go apologize to the teachers you spat on when you were a kid and ask if they'll help you.
Or maybe go read a couple of books.

Obviously, Aliens, this is not directed at you, but at all of those who feel as though they can regurgitate a string of indecipherable characters and it's MY job to decode it all.
Newsflash: I don't work in the Puzzle Palace breaking codes for a living, and it's THEIR job to write according to the conventions of the language that they so sanguinely butcher.

[/rant]

- Eric

 

Your rant reminds me of the time I saw an old guy in a supermarket screaming at his companion because she put Corn Chex instead of Wheat Chex in their shopping cart (I doubted that was the real cause for his outburst either).

 

When I was in college I screamed at a fellow student for buying skim mozzarella instead of whole milk mozzarella for our house meal that I was scheduled to make.

She later committed suicide...

... 2 years later, so I doubt I had anything to do with it, but I freely admit that I can be an obnoxious SOB, whether in print or in person.

It's a cross I must bear.

Bottom line, though: If you can't communicate in writing, don't post in a written forum.

And before the egalitarian brigade gets mobilized, this isn't about class or even education.
My grandfather never graduated from high school (I suspect he dropped out at about 15), but he was very well spoken, when not cursing a blue streak. Years after he died, I was cleaning out his desk area, and found a number of "vocabulary enhancement" books from the 1950s.
In order to get a better job, he had studied, practiced, and memorized thousands of words.

If he could do it, while working full time and raising a family, so can these clowns.

I have no sympathy and even less forbearance.

- Eric

 

Eric and aliens I have been in this very situation my self . Things like this imo should get a pm to the op. Im sure anyone who has corrected others in threads like these means for it in the best of way's ., But when you do it like that it's like calling them an idiot . We all like busting each others chops here but sometimes emotions tone of voice etc. cant be expressed in a post some people might tend to take it the wrong way .

 

Good advice.

If I may offer some more, a dictionary or grammar text shoved down the front of one's pants will inevitably result in some chafing.

 

And, in fact, I have done, Copper, to explain difficult fine points to some of our foreign posters, who have worked very hard, and do an excellent job in communicating in a language that is not their own.

This guy, though is American, and is not making errors, so much as he's too lazy to press those little buttons with the "," and the "." on them, expecting us to do the work of figuring out what he means, rather than him doing the work of explaining it... And all the while asking us to do him a favor.

I have great patience for those who perhaps just don't speak the language very well, whether foreigners or not, but that degree of laziness just gets my goat.

I'm sorry for having started this (and I do admit to having started it), but I feel very strongly about it, and wonder how someone who expresses himself in writing this way expects to earn a living in the modern world, in which ditch diggers have been replaced by heavy machinery.

- Eric

 

... But it will protect one from the inevitable kicks in the area to be anticipated after p'ing off the other people on the forum .

(flame suit is at the cleaners... )

- Eric

 

The original post was made four years ago and the guy hasn't been here in at least that long. Why is anyone worrying about it now, when OP is long gone and probably does not care?

 

Well alrighty, then.

I just saw the "January - February" jump between the two messages and didn't even look at the year.

Guess the guy didn't care too much anyway.

" Never Mind "

- Eric