54newyorker

Thank you all for your advice. Now I have to decide whether to keep it as a "time capsule" or restore it. Thanks again. Robert

Hello, I just got a 1954 New yorker that was in my fathers garage for 35+ years , not started during that whole period. It has 13k original miles on the car. I would love to do the restore on it honestly for 2 reasons 1 the fun of it and secondly I've had alot of people stopping by asking about the car (because it is has been front of my house for a couple of months, covered but they still stop to look) and they keep offering somewhere between 500-6K for it but I know it's worth atleast 10k because of the low miles on the Hemi it has and the decent shape the rest of the car is in, don't get me wrong it's not great because it's been ignored for 35+ years but it has soooooo much potential and I want to make it reach it. Do I need to pull and rebuild the engine first because of the long downtime, how about the tranny? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks , Robert