Old Muscle Car Research Paper

There is a hard decision to make when you have an old, beat up muscle car. You can either one, sell it or store it away and buy a new car. Or you can do it the hard way, restore that old bad boy. Either way, you’re going to need some money in order to do so. And you’re going to need some skills. In this article we will review the pros and cons of restoring an old muscle.
It can be a real pain restoring old muscle cars. There can be more problems about it that you didn’t even know about when you start to tear it open. You could even possibly break some components on it yourself. “During disassembly, it clung to its pieces with a seemingly unbreakable grip, bolstered by years of accumulated filth and corrosion, transforming even the simplest tasks into monumental undertakings” (McNessor 12-13). So you have to make sure that you are really careful and know everything that you are doing. You also must have a great deal of patience because it can be quite frustrating at times and can be time consuming. Buying a new car would most likely be ten times easier. Depending on the car …show more content…
Depending on the condition of it, you could have to take everything apart and replace everything. It would be the best though to rebuild the original parts so it has all matching numbers. But that can’t always happen. Sometimes the car is in too bad of condition to keep everything original. It is also normal to lose faith while restoring it. According to Bill, the one who rebuilt the 1969 Plymouth Road Runner this article is about, “‘The car exhausted me,’ Bill said. ‘There were times when I almost sold it. I was like: ‘That’s it. I can’t do this. It’s too much. It’s so overwhelming.’ You look at everything you have to do, and you start losing your sanity’” (McNessor 24). It’s going to get frustrating. It’s going to be time consuming as well. But it will be worth it when you finally get to drive that beauty out on the