needs some advice

Well I've run in to a snag on my chop top and I was wondering. what I should do. I have until April 1 to do something with my chop top or the city's going to start fining me 100 dollars a day until I do something with it. As I see it I have 4 choices.

1. Get one of those portable garages to hide it in so the city can't bitch about it.
2. take it to work and put it in there storage lot.
3. If I can get an engine for it try try and convince my brother to let me use his garage so that I can it running
4. Scrape the car.

Choice 3 would be my first choice but I don't know where or how I could afford an engine right now. Choice 1 would be the next best it would allow me to work on it but I would still have to buy a portable garage. The cheapest one I've found was at Sam's Club http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=141687 for just under $200. Choice 2 wouldn't be all that great because I wouldn't be able to work on my car but it would buy me some time till I could figure what to do with it. Choice 4 only if I can do nothing else with it and is definitely a last resort.

So know I don't know what I'm going to do. I was wondering if you guys have any Ideas or advice for me.

Space seems to be a major issue with a lot of us at this point.... Wish I had an answer and more space.....

cole,

what do you need.

i know you have rods, pistons and heads correct?

if u can get a motor in it will they stay off your back?

How often do you plan on working on it? If your schedule is busy, just store it at work for now. That could also give you more time to get a motor ready for it. Just my opinion..

Well for that motor I have I'm going to need all new gaskets and piston rings. also need at least new lifters and I'm not sure what else.


I should be able to work on the choptop a lot more now since I'm out of school. The problem is that now that I'm out of school and have time to work my projects the city has an unrealistic time table set for me.

How big is the shop where you work at? I would try to store it there if there was a space that was out of the way and not being used.

Well I wouldn't be able to store it in the shop but they have a fenced in area that I might be able to store it in.

or let it go. live life, work, have fun, make money and then buy another one and chop it up when you have the place time and cash to do what you want. not having space for stuff only causes hi blood preasure to go higher. moving old cars from one place to another over and over gets old real quick

RebStew wrote: not having space for stuff only causes hi blood preasure to go higher. moving old cars from one place to another over and over gets old real quick

thats good advice there....

magicman_1968 wrote:

RebStew wrote: not having space for stuff only causes hi blood preasure to go higher. moving old cars from one place to another over and over gets old real quick

thats good advice there....

Not only that, but if it is out of sight, it falls on the list of priorities. If you stumble over it and see it everyday, it haunts you.

Well the chop tops not going to get the blower motor anymore. What I'm thinking is makeing the chop my daily driver and put a blower motor in the Elky I'm driving right now, and make it a good street/strip car. I know that I should probally just get rid of the chop top but I don't know when or if I would want to under take a big project like this again but since I've already started this one i think that I should at least try to finnish it. I'm going to see how my money situation is this weekend and I'm going to try and buy that portable garage.

did'nt one of the members on here have a Garage for Rent? That may make a 5th option. Another option or thought, most City Ordance state a vehcle can not sit for a perio

d of more than 30 days with out being moved. OT make a long story short I had a neighbor during our first year that had 3 junk carssitting making a nice eye sore for myself and another neighbor.

We could ge no help because they would actually move the vehicle around by pushing them. Thus the City of Independence and our home owner association stated they were doing nothing wrong because the cars were being moved reguardless of not running or condition.

They no longer live next door Thank Goodness

Moral of the Story either you have a pissy neighbor ( like I was ) ( Was ) or find out what exactly the city ord. is reguarding vehicles. Get a few guys and mov ethe vehicle even if it is intoo your driveway or something for a few days.

Just my 2 Cents worth

Bill :pirat: