Bet you could turn a quick buck on some body parts there. It doesn't look all that bad, just kinda crusty...
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- Thread starter Arik
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if its free...grab it!! it will be a quick sell to someone who can turn it into one sweet ride.....
Call the "Garage Squad". Maybe they can help you get it back
on the road.
on the road.
DWalt
Member
No doubt it could be restored, but it wouldn't be cheap or quick. I no longer take on "Labor of Love" projects, as my previous experiences have been more frustrating and costly than rewarding. Regarding cars, to me they are no more than a means of transportation, not art objects, collectibles, or sex surrogates.
Convertible 
A little Flitz would help.
A little Flitz would help.
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That reminds me of when I worked for a Toyota Dealership in the late 70's.
They had a 1967 Toyota 2000GT in the showroom.
Pretty much pristine condition. Beautiful car.
Looked like this:
Then they moved it to a gravel back lot and there it sat in the weeds, on 4 flat tires, rusting.
Looks somewhat Jagish or even Ferariish..
When I was in high school, senior year, 1970, my mom bought a used '66, I think it was, black, Cadillac Calais, looked very much like that.
So I waxed and buffed the heck out of it, put on my rented white tux, and headed off to the prom. Stopped for gas on the way to pick up my date.
After gassing up, the attendant says to me, "Do you want your ticket?"
"What?," says I.
"Do you want your ticket?," he repeats.
"What ticket?," I ask.
"You are from the funerel home, aren't you?," he replies...
Kinda deflating for a young fella, but pretty funny in retrospect.
So I waxed and buffed the heck out of it, put on my rented white tux, and headed off to the prom. Stopped for gas on the way to pick up my date.
After gassing up, the attendant says to me, "Do you want your ticket?"
"What?," says I.
"Do you want your ticket?," he repeats.
"What ticket?," I ask.
"You are from the funerel home, aren't you?," he replies...
Kinda deflating for a young fella, but pretty funny in retrospect.
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Smart decision!
You always come out cheaper, buying a restored car rather than restoring it yourself,
plus you don't have all the work that's involved.
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How many bodies in the trunk
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?amazingflapjack
US Veteran
American pickers...
Yes Iggy, maybe Mike Wolf would be a buyer, but only if there was some rat excrement on it.
Call American Pickers. Maybe they will buy it..
Yes Iggy, maybe Mike Wolf would be a buyer, but only if there was some rat excrement on it.
LVSteve
Member
That's a great shame, but I can tell you from bitter experience restorations are not for the faint hearted or those with full time jobs, especially when you have to work in a car port in England. Finally sold it at a loss.
Tyrod
Member
From my long experience in the automotive trade I can tell you that car is a restoration money pit. It could cost upward of $100,000 for a good restoration for at best a $70,000 car. The money in these kinds of cars is in the parts. There are tons of old geezers (many on this forum) wanting to relive former glories by restoring old cars that have very limited parts supplies. The more obscure the model & options the more valuable the parts are (working or not). I could imagine a car like this, fully optioned, could fetch $50,000 in parts if the owner was willing to do the removal labor and list the parts on ebay. Then, the remaining husk could be sold for scrap. Assuming you had a title, the husk could have even more value because classic car insurance companies may be in need of an undamaged chassis for which they would pay dearly instead of paying out the "agreed" value of the insured car.
