Wouldn't have thought that the cost of importing the Fairline was practical, seeing its condition
A good clean would help!
On the other hand the MG looks a good buy.
I paid $3000 for the car and it cost about another £1100 to import it. According to the DVLA, there aren't any others in the country, though that's not strictly accurate. I know of a couple, but they were probably registerd slightly incorrectly (as just Fairlanes or Galaxies, for example, rather than giving them their full title). It's an odd spec, being a two door post with the 292 Y-block in it and also being just one colour (US colour schemes at the time were usually two-tone at very least)
Despite appreances in those photo's, it's a good solid dry-state car (with the exception on that one remaining wheel arch) but the repair panel for the rear wheel arch could pay for 2 VVCs, so it will have to wait while I save up. The surface rust will all come off failt easily come the respray (which won't be until the summer 2016, if I've still got it - I'm aiming to have it at some shows this summer, so it will look like that)
Classic yank ownership is an odd thing, very emotive. People tend to buy what they like, rather than buying what's viable. I ran a '52 Cadilac as a daily for about 6 months one summer, 12mpg was painful but I always looked good getting there. Prior to the Galaxie, I had a number of 40's and early 50's cars and felt the time was right for some chrome & fins for a change. I mentioned this to a few mates in the States and they came up with this one. One family from new, details of the original sale (the dealership that supplied it still exists) and it was serviced regularly until 1973 when it broke down and was left beside the barn until 2010 when I got it.
The VVC on the other hand, didn't have a scrap of paper with when I got it, and shows signs of neglect, hence the low price I suppose. It's very much a 25-yard car, up close it looks like it's been cleaned with garden rake and no amount of colour match is going to fill the deep scratches! It's booked in for it's MoT on friday, lets see if I'm still so upbeat on saturday morning! Still, it's a right laugh to drive and, like the big Ford, it has got under my skin.
I don't really fancy painting either of them though!