The SX/4 money pit

[Smitty]

Yep, as long as it stays here, there will be the sound of the Hoover sucking $$$.

[68AMXGOPAC]

How much for the Kirby ?I heard ya can paint a car with them and vaccum the oriental

[Smitty]

I think the new owner should rename it the Hoover since it will continue to suck money 

[68AMXGOPAC]

LOL< I am sure the old owner has a complete documented testement to that,the new owner should bring it out west and have people pay for it to be parked on thier property to bring in a cloud, or a storm. Heck bring it to a logging company and park it in the woods,trees will just drop at the sight of it. all in good fun my friend.

[IowaEagle]

Yes, the new owner might be able to make some money that way.   

[Smitty]

Time to reveal all!!!    The new owner, who we will name Turtle since it took him 9 months to actually take physical ownership of the car, has left the house.  The Eagle has taken flight even if on a tow dolly.

At 7:30 this morning I went out to the barn and hooked the charger up to the money pit and cleared some of the weeds away.


After a few minutes it fired up and I pulled it around to the main driveway to await its fate



Finally, Mr Turtle arrives at about 11.  Of course he does not know how to back up a trailer so we unhook the dolly and position it by hand.  We then go to the toy garage and load up the 4.0 and a pile of "extra" parts.


Mr Turtle then pulls the truck around and we load up the Money Pit.  I get to drive it for the last time  and then it gets secured to the dolly


It is then time to finish the deal with the paperwork and handoff of the title.


Any and all warranties are now voided once Mr Turtle hit the end of the driveway 


Good luck with the Money Pit Mr Turtle aka Randy aka 68AMXGOPAC.  I hope Randy continues the saga.  Seriously, I hope Randy gets home safe with the car and will continue to update this thread with the Money Pit's ability to suck money out of his wallet.

[jim]

Congratulations to both of you.
The Pit doesn't look as bad as I expected.
Incidentally, I sympathize about Mr. Turtle about backing the dolly.
I can back a trailer, but the dolly ain't your ordinary trailer.  It took me 2 or 3 tries
to back the dolly up to our parts car.
Many thanks for the update.

[IowaEagle]

Farewell from one home and onto its new one. 

[wagonmaster]

too true jim. backing a dolly is a pain in the rump. even harder with a vehicle on it and dern near impossible if its a center pivot style dolly.

[68AMXGOPAC]

And there you have it Wagonmaster , it was a swivel type! AH HA now I don't feel so bad about it giving me a hard time.That and I have never owned a trailer before.Hey at least I got it between the posts .

So yes Smitty it did make it home ok, alot of traffic,and the ole borrowed truck was loaded , but did fine.My hat's off to Smitty for all his help, patience and generosity with Mr.Turtle.Let it be known that Mr.Turtle is also the man on the roof doing the chimney : ).O wait that took him awhile to show up for that too!! I wonder what Smitty will get now?? He seems to have extra garage space : )

[Smitty]

Yeah, I was maybe a little unfair about backing up the dolly.  If you can't see it then it is near impossible to back up with it.  I don't think anything else will be going in the garage anytime soon as I have a ton of work to do on Skeezix's Cherokee and you saw how much is left to do on the 69 Ambo.  Although if a 2 door Eagle shows up on EvilBay or Craigslist ya never know what might happen.

Good luck with the car.  Your son did not look too impressed with it. 

[Route 66 Rambler]

Good Luck with the Money Pit, GoPac.  I can sympathize with the wallet and the money sucking etc., I've had my fair share of that as welll.

[68AMXGOPAC]

Yeah, I was maybe a little unfair about backing up the dolly.  If you can't see it then it is near impossible to back up with it.  I don't think anything else will be going in the garage anytime soon as I have a ton of work to do on Skeezix's Cherokee and you saw how much is left to do on the 69 Ambo.  Although if a 2 door Eagle shows up on EvilBay or Craigslist ya never know what might happen.

Good luck with the car.  Your son did not look too impressed with it. 

Well the son has actually taken a good interest in it now. We vaccumed all of the glass out,(most of it) still some hiding somewheres I suspect.The hatch actually does open and close, we covered it back in with plastic as it sat outside for a week.It's now inside under cover.

[IowaEagle]

That is good. So what does it need, body wise?

[68AMXGOPAC]

Well it definetly needs the new hatch from the parts rig.Figure we will sand it down and paint it before it goes on,and it does lok like we can jack the roof back in shape good enough.Probably have to remove the sun roof before,just in case,allthough it did survive the tree hit.
It really is in decent shape, and as the thread goes, we know Smitty sure put alot of cash and effort into it , bummer is after all that it had an engine issue.( or I am thinking it would still be his if not for that ).
And even funnier ( kinda) is that I sold the sending unit out of the oarts rig,and I don't think the one in the money pit works! LOL.
My son doesn't want to admit he is liking it,but it is evident : ).