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NutmegCT

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Hi all. I've been fighting the desire to get another LBC. Yes, I'm completely nuts, especially after just buying a 1730 farmhouse and slowly doing restorations.

Please shoot me.
Tom a/k/a Mr. Low Resistance
 
OK, I'll bite: What are you looking for?
 
1950s, "character not horsepower", interesting history, maintenance records, roadworthy not trailer queen. PM sent.
 
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JP - you are a great help! And I didn't know you had such bad teeth ...

:jester:
 
Well, you do know we're nothing if not great enablers...
 
I'd feel even more enabled if the enablers sent money. *Lots* of money ...
 
Just use some of that money you saved by doing the home renovations yourself.
 
Renovations? Spent all summer re-roofing the workshop building. Also just finished kitchen remodeling (updating) last week. Replaced clapboards and painted. Replaced 30 year old furnace with a Buderus, And just yesterday installed new toilet. Toilet replacement went just fine, except for the tiny issue of the water supply line pipe bursting and flooding the bathroom.

Other than that ...

Some Before/After photos attached.

Anyway, I miss driving a car that has no computers, black boxes, and "alerts".

T.
 

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Lotsa work! And nicely done. I'm yet to replace the toilet here, more plumbing and wall re-arranging involved than just the toilet though. argh.

NutmegCT said:
Anyway, I miss driving a car that has no computers, black boxes, and "alerts".
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Massive agreement on that point, Tom

...and you've the same stainless sink we put in a couple decades ago. Only difference is a we opted for a center, single handle mixing valve (Delta). Now time to replace that unit.
 
Doc - any thoughts on Humbers or Morris Minors?
 
My shop partner has a sweet 1960 Morris Minor convertible, old English white with red interior and top. A fun little car. Not sure how you can say Morris and Hummer in the same sentence though. Oh wait, you're talking about the English Hummer, right?
 
Humber!

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A 1956 Humber Super Snipe
(in reality, much smaller than it looks in the advertising!)
:rolleyes:
 
So, toilet - inside or outside? :bananawave:

Yes yes yes Humber!!! what a great looking car! A Stately conveyance.
 
LOL - toilets are inside; "necessaries" are outside!

Doubt I can afford a Humber, as I'm getting a bit long of tooth to do heavy work, and don't want to pay $200/hr for a 3 year restoration.

hmmm - how 'bout something like ...

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Wonder if any BCF'rs have experience with these critters.
 
Keep going, life is too short to drive boring cars! šŸ˜. Older Rovers are nice, P series.
 
Update - getting close to Lift-off. (Or maybe Abort! Abort!)
 
Live it, don't give up. Can't take the money with you, it is too late for us older car guys to worry about it.
 
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