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Originally Posted by RunningRioT
viper.. why in storage?
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It is in storage for the winter/fall/spring. The Viper is a 1994 with 4,000 total original miles on it since my uncle bought it. It's a fun car, but a PITA to drive around. It goes for Pizza and Chinese food and that's about it. People try to sit in it or touch it all the time, they try to open the hood (which if you don't do it just right it cracks), if there is the slightest bit of water on the ground it hydroplanes like crazy, and it is in absolutely perfect condition (well, it doesn't have cats or a stock muffler anymore). It is pretty much only a summer car (as the mileage shows). I've put a ton of pictures up on here from when I drove it the first time. If you want I'll put them up again, but I think everyone else would shoot themselves in the foot since they saw then 30 times already.
The '32 isn't quite finished yet. It is a real 5 window model B that my uncle had since he was 18. He sent it to a '32 rebuilder to do most of the ground up restoration (as he will make it a 100 point car) and he brought it to his painter to paint it. All that is left is some of the air conditioner work, the interior, the door handles, and bolting on the fenders and running boards. It is going for interior next week and we should have it back within a month. I'll get some pictures when we go to put all the other stuff on. When it is done it should be worth $130,000 or so. Not bad for a car he paid his aunt $300 for. When he drove it as a kid it had a 400+hp 327ci engine with over 13:1 compression piston and duel quads, a 3-spd rock crusher, and a 6.13:1 or so rear. When he used to race with it nothing could touch it stop light to stoplight, the car would roast the tires from a stop in third.
The '73 Lincoln Mark IV was owned by my grandfather. It was Lincoln's version of the Thunderbird, but had a lot more options to it. Including a 460ci big block, which is the largest factory engine produced by Ford. I was going to get it running again, but it needs a new radiator, gas tank, all hoses, fuel pump, water punp, ect. Too much work for right now, we will work on that after the '32 is done. It does have one of the first car phones in it, which will be kept when it is fixed up. Not too many people have seen a rotary dial car phone.