My Options For A Project Car

Old Rear Wheel Drive Pickup Truck

Updated: 07 Apr 2017

Old Rear Wheel Drive Pickup Truck

This category has a lot of options and a lot of cheap ones at that. I can either get a manual or automatic truck. However, the manual trucks may have 4 speeds which are basically 3 speeds with a granny gear. That means that you basically get the same speed with both transmissions, meaning transmission choice may not be as important. You can also get some gigantic engines in these things, no replacement for displacement…

Old Big Body Cruiser

It’s a given that these cars won’t have a manual transmission. Cars like these aren’t as spendy as the comparable muscle/pony cars. Big engines and big dimensions mean autocrossing will be hard, so cruiser or drag racing build, maybe rally for poops and giggles. This option looks pretty good, they are a bit underrated in my opinion…

Old Muscle/Pony Car

This option is the most desired for but also expensive and rare. Finding one of these with a stick shift will be a bit difficult and expensive if what I’ve seen on Craigslist is a good indicator. I might have to settle with an automatic model for this category. However, the idea of a late 70’s Camaro with an auto is kind of tempting…

Other Cars I’ve Considered

Old 4x4 Pickup Truck
Having two 4x4 vehicles would be cool, but having a 4x4 and a fast car might be cooler.

Chevy El Camino
It’s a car that’s not too big with a pickup bed, best of both worlds.

Comments

Get an American mini pickup, and LS swap it

Doing that for my first project car? That’s a little much to ask haha

So you no longer have restrictions about what car you can get? Sweet

For my project car. At the moment, I’m trying to get a daily driver and that is more than likely going to be a fairly modern V6 pickup. However, I might get a project car after this upcoming semester of college.

You know what I’m going to say… Get a 240Z

…or a 2nd gen Camaro.

A big old cruiser would be neat but I don’t think it’d fit well in Washington since the roads probably aren’t really cruiser friendly, y’know. Personally, I’d try looking for a classic car in California, cheap and rust free. Plus, good excuse for a road trip ;)

Well, where I live isn’t exactly middle of Kansas but it isn’t touge roads everywhere either. Buddy and his dad both have cruisers and they live on what’s basically a touge road. I live a long drive away from California, I doubt my dad would want to go that far for a car.

I’d say go with the 240Z.

But what are you trying to achieve?

Dad says the purpose of the project car is to be educational. Something I can get my hands dirty with, see if I like being under the hood.

I’d love one of the old pick ups think they look great and stand out because they’re 1. old and 2. look brand new when restored. But you’re on the money with the gearbox it’d be a bit disappointing in that respect