Fresh 240SX
03-28-2002, 08:45 PM
I was reading something in the Tech forum about a member who wants to replace his dash..... and...LOL it reminds me of a funny story......
Last fall..... my neighbours got 2 new cars and they said to me do you know anyone who would buy our old car? 1988 Chrysler Lebaron.... I was joking and i was like sure ill give you $100 for it.... so long story short I get this car.... it was in Mint condition but that dosent matter cuz its a lebaron long story short... my plan was to clean it up.... sell it for like $1000... obviously that would be a good idea considering i paid next to nothing for a Mint condition car that had no problems... so one day im feeling upto doing so work so i get some tools and head outside... I thought well ill take the car apart and clean it up better than it is so it looks real nice for then the sucker comes to buy it.... anyways... I gutted the interior.... Dash, Electronics, Seats, Carpet, Headliner,Trim, Door panels... ALL GONE..... stripped down to the bear metal...
took me a long time to do it.... so at the end of the day i put most of the parts in the trunk and the rest in the garage.. i was tired so i would clean the parts the next day.... well that next day never came till like 3 months later.. i took the car apart when it was like fall/winter but it was really mild.... then like a week later we had a bad storm and it was cold up untill about a month ago when i put it back together.... so i rent a upholstery cleaner and clean the seats and carpet and clean up the trim and re assemble everything... so when i took the car apart i threw all the screws in a jar... now the car is reassembled and i have about 25 screws left and everything looks fine to me LOL.... oh my....
BTW i bought the car for $100 canadain... spent about $100 to clean it and sold it last week for $2800!!!!!
Whats that infomercial program, Motormillions?
Im in the wrong line of work aparently... thats like turing shit into sold gold.!
but point of the story..... what to do with all these screws...
Last fall..... my neighbours got 2 new cars and they said to me do you know anyone who would buy our old car? 1988 Chrysler Lebaron.... I was joking and i was like sure ill give you $100 for it.... so long story short I get this car.... it was in Mint condition but that dosent matter cuz its a lebaron long story short... my plan was to clean it up.... sell it for like $1000... obviously that would be a good idea considering i paid next to nothing for a Mint condition car that had no problems... so one day im feeling upto doing so work so i get some tools and head outside... I thought well ill take the car apart and clean it up better than it is so it looks real nice for then the sucker comes to buy it.... anyways... I gutted the interior.... Dash, Electronics, Seats, Carpet, Headliner,Trim, Door panels... ALL GONE..... stripped down to the bear metal...
took me a long time to do it.... so at the end of the day i put most of the parts in the trunk and the rest in the garage.. i was tired so i would clean the parts the next day.... well that next day never came till like 3 months later.. i took the car apart when it was like fall/winter but it was really mild.... then like a week later we had a bad storm and it was cold up untill about a month ago when i put it back together.... so i rent a upholstery cleaner and clean the seats and carpet and clean up the trim and re assemble everything... so when i took the car apart i threw all the screws in a jar... now the car is reassembled and i have about 25 screws left and everything looks fine to me LOL.... oh my....
BTW i bought the car for $100 canadain... spent about $100 to clean it and sold it last week for $2800!!!!!
Whats that infomercial program, Motormillions?
Im in the wrong line of work aparently... thats like turing shit into sold gold.!
but point of the story..... what to do with all these screws...