yeah, i dont know much about cars or car maintenance, but the older them things get, the lousier they run. dudes that want a 51 merc will be dumping a ton of cash in that thing just to keep it running. unless you have the money to rip out the insides and rebuild the engine from the ground up. had a friend that had a chop top early 50s buick. he'd drag it down the block then push it back to his house. but for that 1 block the dude was big pimpin.