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QuestClassics.com - The Quest
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- Quest Classics - THE JOURNEY FOR YOUR CLASSIC AUTOMOBLIE ENDS HERE
About the Quest
- Welcome to QuestClassics.com !!
We appreciate your patience as we build the nation's largest collection of pre-restoration classic automobiles. Each week we are adding new listings, making new contacts and working toward our objective of creating a "donor" source for your automotive projects. Be sure to see our NEWS & UPDATES link at the bottom of this page for new ways that we are enhancing our operation and building a newtorking community of automotive design and restoration.
One of our strategic partners is Auto Volanta, an automotive design and concept company. Even the team at Auto Volanta believes that these automobiles are the catalyst to get you started in achieving your dreams.
Our motto, The Journey For Your Classic Automobile Ends Here™, is only half the story. The truth is, the image, the visions, and the life you give these automobiles is eternal. They will outlive us all. Their immortality will transcend generations to come.
The Journey For Your Classic Automobile Ends Here™, but your moment of artistic talent has just arrived.
- IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING ...
It is taking us longer than we anticipated to continue to build our database, thanks to all of you. For instance, take a look at the 1931 MODEL A on the left that we were anxious to list on our site. We barely had the time to take the pictures of it before someone snatched it up and it was on it's way to a new home.
This happens a lot more than you would think and more times than we can tell you. Many times, the pictures never make it to the site. That's exactly what we are shooting for, and encourages us to work that much harder. Well, we have. Despite your demand, we still continue to increase our database.
In the meantime, we encourage you to go on to our new Forum section of the website and under the "Looking For" section, tell us, and the world, what you are looking for. If is it only parts, please use the "Need Parts For" section.
If we have a heads up on your desire, we are that much more likely to be able to match you up with the ride you want when we find it. If not from us, maybe you'll receive some information from another former project manager that has not found the time to complete their project and wishes to pass along his/her project for the cause. Keep us posted, and we'll keep finding them for you !!
Still looking for a 1931 MODEL A.....look here ....we have some, wih more to follow !!
JUST IN ~ Click on the picture of the 1928 MODEL A on the right to take you to the galley for this new listing.
QUEST OF THE MONTH
- 1957 CHEVY STATION WAGON
This month's Quest of the Month is this 1957 Chevy Townsman Station Wagon that has been patiently awaiting a new life.
Picture loading the kids (or the grandkids), along with the family dog(s) into this ultimate beach cruiser and heading out for a nice ride.
This find caught our undivided attention for a number of different reasons. Primarily, everything on this find is there, intact, and all the ingredients are there for a complete success story.
The dash is all intact and complete with knobs, the frame work is there for a complete restoration. the wood on the tailgate is looking pretty good, despite the age. All the chrome is complete and the body is that of a very solid western kept automobile.
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STORY BEHIND THE QUEST
- 1942 BUICK SPECIAL
As the story book or the song goes, "A long, long time ago..." We could continue with "there was an old woman," but we are certain she did not live in a shoe, nor are we certain she was old. We are certain, however, that she had the car that was purchased by her family and that she passed away. After she passed, the family parked this car in the garage and probably hung the keys on the key rack in the kitchen.
The year was 1957. Just as the Quest of the Month was rolling out of the factory, and Eisenhower was president, the cost of a first-class stamp was $.03, the Dodger's Jackie Robinson retired before being traded to the Giants, Russia launched it's first ICBM, while both the U.S. and Russia conducted atmospheric nuclear tests with Britain exploding it's first H-bomb. Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded "That'll Be the Day," and the Toronto Maple Leafs tied the NHL record 37 points, beating the New York Rangers 14-1 (Sorry all you Ranger fans, my day is a bigger Maple Leaf fan). You get the picture.
Then something amazing happened. Fifty years passed.
Now, were not really certain how this happens. Is it their dedication to preserving a part of the family, interest in preserving classic cars, or just plain forgetfulness? Did some guy just scratch his head one day and ask, "Hey Betty, the neighbors are having a yard sale and wondered if we had anything to contribute....Oh, hey.....what about that 42 Buick that's taking up one bay of the garage?
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WHAT'S THAT?
- 1959 BRITISH ISETTA
Just as we sat in debate of whether or not we were going to continue this feature, in came an email from our good friend in Florida with some pictures attached. The first question posed by some when we brought the pictures up on the screen was, "What's that?"
Thus, a feature category was spared for another month.
This is a little guy that looks right at you and smiles, and hopefully makes you smile in return. How can you not look at this little guy with the eyes and the mouth, in the form of a license plate, and smile back?
Sometimes we hear about what "gas hogs" the classics were and how "inefficient" they were. Well, here is a classic, one cylinder, thirteen horsepower engine that gets about sixty miles to the gallon and does about 45 miles per hour (depending on the wind speed, so we're told).
We couldn't have had a better welcome into our next activity and feature than this little guy. In fact, we just may make him our poster child. Just imagine where we would be if every person, in every major city, had adopted this guy in 1959. What if everyone in NY, Miami and LA drove these today? What if every NYC cab driver drove this instead of a Lincoln Town Car?
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PICTURE THIS
- AUTO VOLANTA 1966 IMPALA SS REDESIGN
A 1966 Impala Super Sport 396. I'm sorry, maybe I should have made sure you were sitting down first. Here are the latest redesign renderings from the Auto Volanta team for a classic car brought to its full potential.
Being aware that paint covers a lot of errors and history, when we found this ride we approached it very cautiously with our trusty magnets in hand and inspected all the right areas. When we were done, we knew that we had found an incredible specimen. As solid as the day it rolled off the asssembly line, and still bearing some of those factory markings, this car is an ideal candidate for a great redesign effort.
Auto Volanta immediately went to work with some options to really bring this auto to life. The idea was to redesign this car by accentuating the original features while keeping it original stature.
This is one large car. All of the single-tone Impalas that we have seen, with the exception of the lighter colors, really stand out in the way that reflects large and bulky. By selecting a two-toned approach with a defining line, Auto Volanta really helps to transcend this ride into the "fighter jet" that it was intended and know as, as apposed to the mini-van that is shares dimensions with.
Pictured in their redesign options here is the yellow and gray that won our office poll. The close second was a similar gray with a sharp, clean blue similar to the blue highlight found here on our web site.
By removing the chrome side trim and bumpers and blending the remaining trim into the body style, the car is no longer dated and locked hopelessly in the era from whence it came. It breathes a fresh life into the design and radically modernizes it, while keeping its reputation as something you will only see in your rear view mirror for a brief period.
If you are thinking about a solid ride in this style of Americana, think quickly on your colors and act now. Auto Volanta is ready to move today on making this ride your reality.
More detailed pictures of this project can be found here in our 1960 - 1972 Gallery. For more information on Auto Volanta see www.AutoVolanta.com .
RESTORATION ROAD
- 1932 PACKARD
This is a new feature on our site, and without a doubt, our most important one. Restoration Road is the primary objective of our mission.
Long before there was the "official" start of QuestClassics.com, there was always the effort to assist old automobiles in finding new homes and a new life. QuestClassics.com was born from a few pages of donor cars in the former Auto Volanta web site.
As we began to get increased attention from those few pages, we began to formulate the idea behind this site. An entire web site dedicated to pre-restoration classic automobiles.
One such listing on those early pages, was that of a 1932 Packard that we matched up with a couple of visionary guys that looked at an old relic and saw a pristine beauty. The old 1932 Packard has been out of our eye sight for months, but we are begining to get back in a new set of photos that tell the story of the ground-up restoration that it is going through. Photos of this project can be found here in our Restoration Road Gallery.
As it is always better to hear the story first-hand, and their hard work and effort has certainly entitled them to the spotlight, here is their story told by them.
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