Interesting Website

Stumbled onto this site while looking for C/K wheel skirts.... (It's hard to look for one thing on the internet when everything is so distracting)

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Some of the project cars are pretty neat...
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This was done on that 'Chop Cut Rebuild" TV show...
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But my favorite car for sale is.....
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Jeff Rice
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That is an interesting website, thanks.

The owner of this Cord ought to be sentenced to driving 85 Escorts for the rest of his life...

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Jeff DeWitt

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j.shavish

I liked this comment about the Ampicar they are working on...

"This is a meticulous restoration of a rare automobile. The Amphicars were designed to drive and swim and were powered by two rear mounted propellers when in the water. When restoring one of these you want to make sure that you have found all the holes in the body."

Since that car is also boat finding all the holes in the body seem like a REALLY good idea!

Jeff DeWitt

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Jeff DeWitt

Interesting note about Amphicars... Back in the late sixties/early seventies I used to ride in Amphicars every few weeks. There was this place in East Dundee (IIRC) called Santa's Village. Kiddy park with a holiday theme. They had a pond and they had Amphicars..all painted different colors.. You bought tickets and each ride took so many... I used to go and buy a bunch of tickets...ride the Tilt-A-Whirl, and go on the Amphicars.. I used to ask the guys to go chase ducks with the Amphicars.. I think the guys got sick of seeing me in line .. Jeff (almost next to Meadowdale Raceway) Rice

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Pat Drnec

Santa's Village has closed. I wonder what happened to the Amphicars? MikeW

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Mike Williams

No kidding? What about Adventureland at Medinah and Lake Street, or Riverview in the city?? Just kidding you Mike. I was born and raised there and only left a few years ago.. Jeff (Don't know about the Amphicars, though) Rice

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Jeff Rice

Jeff, I am old enough to remember going to Riverview! LOL Rode the Fireball, the Silver Streak, the Bobs. All long gone. By the way the city of Dundee is trying to figure out a way to reopen Santa"s Village. Probably on Tax Payer's money. MikeW

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Mike Williams

The owner of the Guild occasionally writes an article for the Canadan newpaper "Old Autos". Since he deals on a regular basis with rich/important/powerful (warning: some or all of these words may not apply in all cases) people, he tends to be circumspect about people's choices, but unfailingly direct in a carefully chosen words supreme court judge sort of way on bad workmanship. He tends to have a dry understated way of describing things; I take it as read that that is what he is getting at with especially an Amphicar, getting rid of even of the tiniest holes (the ones you can't see) is crucial, since the unrestored or incompletely restored ones are as waterproof now as cheesecloth, and they rot terribly even if they look solid on the surface.

If you are going to use the Guild, and you have to ask how much, you aren't rich enough. They do an excedingly thorough job, though, and produce restorations that look, act and feel like new cars, and if you wanted to, you could drive them just as hard. They specialize in making parts of Unobtainium.

Jim Bartley on PEI

*win a big lottery, and I'll ask him to do up another 56 Packard Caribbean convertible, this time for me.
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