Hello everyone new to this site but not to car forums =). Here is my current predicament...
My g/f owns a 1970 Lemans Sport (at least i think its a sport) that has been sitting in her driveway for about the last 10-14 yrs. From what she told me the car just wouldn't start anymore and they couldn't figure out the problem. Well this year i finally got her motivated to start Dismantling it because it is going to take a complete body off restoration. I decided to start under the hood (with what i am assuming was the stock 350 that came with the car) to see if i could diagnose why it eventually ended up what quite possibly would be its final resting place
. After removing the carb,intake,intake pan, and distributor i finally noticed that the engine ground was severed and this was most likely the reason that they couldn't find lol. Anyways to the question(s). How hard/costly is this car going to be to restore to at least drivable, she brought her children home from the hospital in this car and i would really like to do this for her instead of her having to sell/junk the car. She was hoping to give it to her daughter on her 16th bday but well.....that was this past december heh. Basically what im wanting to know is what are my options as far as affordability is concerned and doing the job right?
My g/f owns a 1970 Lemans Sport (at least i think its a sport) that has been sitting in her driveway for about the last 10-14 yrs. From what she told me the car just wouldn't start anymore and they couldn't figure out the problem. Well this year i finally got her motivated to start Dismantling it because it is going to take a complete body off restoration. I decided to start under the hood (with what i am assuming was the stock 350 that came with the car) to see if i could diagnose why it eventually ended up what quite possibly would be its final resting place
. After removing the carb,intake,intake pan, and distributor i finally noticed that the engine ground was severed and this was most likely the reason that they couldn't find lol. Anyways to the question(s). How hard/costly is this car going to be to restore to at least drivable, she brought her children home from the hospital in this car and i would really like to do this for her instead of her having to sell/junk the car. She was hoping to give it to her daughter on her 16th bday but well.....that was this past december heh. Basically what im wanting to know is what are my options as far as affordability is concerned and doing the job right?
. i'll post in the lemans forum if i have any other questions