$1,000 wish list - what would you buy first?

I'd invest it in a some stocks to create a retirement portfolio and turn it into $200 with some bad stocks then buy some used parts at the swap meet that I didn't need and nobody wants.
That way, I would be right back to my happy self.
Actually, I'd buy an interior for the Whips.

 

strippers

 

Get my wife an all day pass at a spa.

<---------- Running 140 motor for that.

Door panels for my '60 sedan

Enough Crown royal to get through a clutch and reseal job on my white Corsa.
Regards,
Mr T.

 

finish my motor rebuild and if there was anything left over...lunch at taco bell...lol

 

a quickchange from Spadaro's...well it's not enough but I would find the rest somewhere!

 

The Chevelle would get it's long needed heater core and I would have the driver's seat reupholstered.
The model A would get a new red vinyl or leather interior.
The '32 would get painted ( waaay more than a grand).
And last would be the '36 for new headliner, door panels, carpeting and fixing a few cracks and waves around the roof and lower tail panel.
Well...........I'm thankful they all run exceptionally well but none are pretty.

Guess I need more that $1000.

 

one of three..

welder, lincoln 180c and a bottle of 75/25
plasma cutter, probably a thermal dynamics cutmaster42 theyre about $950
hit up an auction and try to score a bridgeport mill/bridgeport clone, or a clausing 8520, 8525, 8530 or an old cinncinatti toolmaster

 

Patch panels and a welder. Any money left over would go towards new door panels.

 

Enter our contest and you can pick $1,000 tool!

 

fill the tank on the car

 

Ok, I know I said Wides all around..........BUT, I just came into a grand and bought a Plasma cutter instead. Not an impulse buy but I really, really, really wanted it.

 

One of those low mileage chicks that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch

 

710-15 Wide White Walls for the cruiser

 

Hang out with Charlie Sheen for a day!

 

All the odds & ends needed for my roadster project; doors, radiator, exhaust, windshield, and tires

 

either towards a tig or plasma cutter

 

A grand isn't enough if you're gonna go for the required amount of coke and hookers.....


I'd start fixin' some of the damage done to my old cutlass that the damn tweeker who stole it caused.. Probably start with a header panel, and a straighten out the front fenders.. close up the mangled hole where the trunk lock was, and prime that stuff.. That's about a grand I think.. Then pony up some extra and knock the creases out of the doors and the quarters on both sides.. smooth out the roof seein' as they tore my vinyl top and the trim off.. (factory body work was crap).. and have that all primed...

then save up for paint..

 

The winner will get the chance!

 

New P.A. system .

 

The most wanted $1000 thing I'd buy??
Use it to send my wife to a spa or a small trip for herself.
She has winter cabin fever so bad this year.
She could enjoy herself away from here while I could lock myself out in the garage enjoying hot rod nirvana working uninterrupted on my projects at the same time

 

man, must be in the wording....i started a thread about "hot rod funds" IE the wife not knowing about this sort of rainy day type thing, and all i got were a bunch of pussies telling me that i shouldn't be hiding anything from my wife...

oh, to answer your specific question, i'd buy an intake, 94, header, V8 tranny and new tires for my 31 coupe.

 

Well, Vegas IS the happiest place on earth after all~ I'm with you on this one. As a matter of fact I booked my rooms earlier today.

 

i need a new roof on the shop a 1000 is a good start

cheers

 

i would get the old paint on my car media blasted to speed things up on getting ready for a paint job. but then i would have to decide how to do it and which faction of the fellow HAMBer's i would want to rip me for

 

i don't know......probably a millermatic 211. That's right around 1K.


Seriously, i would put $1000 (or more) into Shaw group stocks. They are in nuclear plant construction. Despite the Japan disaster, i feel, reluctantly, that nuclear is going to remain stable if not grow.

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I would make my brother a very happy camper and buy all the little things to get his '50 chevy business coupe fired up and on the road.

 

Boy if that aint dreamin all the bills paid and all four kids fed than I would get my 30 truck frame and body blasted , buy all the patch panels and wood floor boards, go to the local paint suply store and get the paint for it . and new glass for the truck and than for the next few weekends get the sucker together so I can bring the boys to cruise night in a nice rod.

 

Better revive this thread in honor of our $1,000 givaway in a couple weeks.

What would you guy first?

 

Almost a year to the day, and I'm still in the same situation, if I had a grand I'd order a set of '32 frame rails.

 

$1000 is the gas money to Bonneville and back and a class change. That would be nice not to have to sweat.