Duane,
The Olds 88 seems like it'd be a great tow vehicle for the
Burro. When I got into autobody work, my first "official" job was an Olds of about that vintage... a little old lady had scraped one whole side of it up, and quit driving then. Once tidied up, it became the first car for a neighbor's daughter.
The pic of my first car was a '49 Prefect [
English Ford] that a local guy had gotten as a parts car for the '48 Prefect he was restoring. After swapping the driver's door between them, he had a notion to build a hot rod, and had a '57 Chevy frame shortened about 2 ft... then gave up on it. I didn't know any better than to think I could turn it into a workable car---with a LOT of help from my gearhead buddies. $10, but no
title.
$10 more, and we had a '54 Chevy 235 in it.
Later, a 250... then a 283... then a 327... and then a 409. [
overkill finally achieved] Drove it for 6 yrs or so before moving onto more normal things, that weren't quite so "rough as a cob".............
Pic attached of when it first hit the road, by the old depot in town. [
note rotted out bottom of driver's door]
Did a similar kind of crazy when we decided to get a hard-shell camper and quit tent camping. Got a real good deal on a
U-Haul CT13 that had been lightly rear-ended by a semi... lots of opportunities to learn working with
fiberglass on that one. [
exhaustively long build thread on this site] Now, son & daughter-in-law camp with it, and I'm working on building a teardrop.........
Note: We could get rebuked for taking things off-topic, with all this old car talk... happened to me on another camper forum.