Actually my wife's the one thats finally decided to sell
her car after its just sat in the garage so long without being used. Its not like you can drive a car like this every day, we're pretty much paranoid to just park it in a tight parking lot somewhere and have everyone door-ding it. Besides that, my town has a rediculacely high rate of car thefts.
We used to take it out to cruse nights on the weekends and hang out with all the hot rodders and stuff but we've both kinda lost interest in that whole scene. Used to be that the value of classic cars like the 57 increased every year, that doesnt seem to be the case anymore either...
Another reason is I'm a tree trimmer and works been really slow lately. Over the last year I've probably only had like half the jobs/income I did over the last 15 years or so. (so we could kinda use the $$$ too)
I'm keeping
my 1956 F-100 I did a complete frame off restoration/street-rod build on before building her 57. I always liked my 56 better than her 57 anyway and now I'll actualy have some room in my 2 car garage to work on getting my 56 going again. I've had a vintage (2-speed) McCullough supercharger I've been wanting to instal on my 56 for years and now I'll finally have some room to get around and work on my truck, plus some $$$ to get that done.
I've also been getting into buying/selling all kinds of stuff to supplement our income and have been needing more space in the garage to fix up, and store bigger items until sold.
The fact that I'll end up with a lot more room (and $$$) for my kart hobby will just be Icing on the cake for me. We've had a lot of fun with the 57 but it deserves to be with someone that'll get more use out of it.
I spend every free minute I had for a couple years restoring that thing. Here's a link to its for sale ad with more info: 