[V8] V8 Crossroads or what will the "next" V8 be?

[Roger Woodbury]

Well, Justin, I guess if the choice is between an S8 and an eleven year
older V8, one must do what one must do.  What color is yours and how many
miles does it now have?  I just gotta ask, although realistically, way over
here on the right coast and opposite corner, I am most likely not a
buyer..still one ponders:  its part of the illness.

 

The other car in the garage is the S8, so I can well understand that you
feel no need to devote time, money or effort to the care and feeding of the
V8.  

 

I'll make a random guess that any decent retail V8 mechanic can turn your
car into a first rate daily driver for around six or seven grand.  Not being
a smartass, just calling up the file of previous experiences that come under
the heading of "while we are in there, we might just as well do "X" and "Y"
and "Z".  Been there done that!

 

A good do it yourself type mech with a decent garage space to work in can do
it for the cost of parts and a lot of time, I guess, unless he/she is
retired like me.  (Retired:  that means I don't have to go to work for
someone else, and can spend all my time doing all the things that I have put
off doing while I was doing something else for money.  It also is that time
spent between leaving one job or profession or financial miscarriage, for
ANOTHER job, profession or financial miscarriage.  I have told my wife I am
thinking about becoming the stern man on a lobster boat because I haven't
done that yet and am too old for the astronaut program.  But I digress.)

 

So, if the car is really and truly too good to part out, inside and out, and
only needs the mechanicals, it really SHOULD be saved.  How much would be a
decent number for you to get to part with the car?

 

Roger

 

(Assuming ANYthing that I have said so far this morning makes sense.)