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Location: Florida | 1957-58-59 PLYMOUTH (LEBANON)
Date: 2012-08-01, 3:26PM CDT
Reply to: 65j39-3177531517@sale.craigslist.org
CAR WAS RUNNING WHEN PARKED, IS MISSING BACK HALF OF BODY,
REST OF CAR IS THERE. FLATHEAD 6-CYL. WILL PART OUT OR HELP
DISASSEMBLE FOR SHIPPING $500.00 ANY QUESTIONS CALL 417-650-0402 THANK YOU
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Tulare Ca | Love that It Says "Ran When Parked" |
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Location: The Mile High City | After seeing what chopped it in half, it should have ran faster! |
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Expert 5K+
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Location: Perth Australia | Ran faster..... Thats funny
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Posts: 2679
| We see why it is half off! Half a car, must be good on gas... |
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Location: The Mile High City | don't know how to measure fuel economy on this one now...
inches per acre-foot? |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Take that hideous dash out, and this 59 Plymouth don't look half bad !
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Location: West Chester, PA | I think that "half off" sounds too negative, I personally like "half on" better... |
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| If I had a coupon for 50% off, would it still be valid? |
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Elite Veteran
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| The missus and I have been giving this some more thought. She'll bid zero dollars for the back half.
Is this an early prototype for front wheel drive? I had a LeBaron with FWD in the early '80's.
And if someone cut the car in half, what was the original half-event? Meaning someone obviously needed a back half, which meant all they had was a front half....so what happened to THAT car?
Maybe all Plymouth LEBANONs were like this?
And if it truly is a 57-58-59, why the heck did it take so long to make only half a car? |
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Location: The Mile High City | All I know is that this is the worst case of trunk rust I have ever seen!
Some Scandanavian fellow could probably repair it in a couple of weeks, though. |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
Posts: 19146
Location: bishop, ca | If this car were married, would the front section be considered its better half?
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Posts: 2612
Location: Parts Unknown |
Classic case of the haves and half nots . . .
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Location: Parts Unknown | Did the original ad really say "drive this car anywhere" ?
Looks like a great first car for that rambunctious punk kid.
"Hey, kid ... c'mere, .... I got a little 'surprise" for ya !"
Oh yeah, I forgot, that would considered "child abuse" these days.
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Location: The Mile High City | Come on, people! Instead of looking at the glass as half empty... |
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Location: Parts Unknown |
If this guy thinks this car can drive anywhere he must be a half-wit . . .
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
Posts: 19146
Location: bishop, ca | The seller musta've thought that he was a real wit.
Turns out he was only half right (like Mike almost-says).
Nobody's considered the possibility that this car has been converted to front wheel drive.
If this car were an aero-plain, would it be considered as being a tail dragger?
Edited by d500neil 2012-08-16 11:07 PM
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Expert
Posts: 2612
Location: Parts Unknown |
I called the number to ask some questions. The guy said when he was cutting the car, he accidentally
cut the left side of his body off. He's all right now . . .
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Location: The Mile High City | It's a fifty-fifty proposition... |
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Location: Parts Unknown | One of my Joisey friends is a fireman here. We were in the office and a filipino guy came in and
told one of the clerks something. The clerk asked what he had been doing at the time of the incident,
and the guy replied "Cutting soup".
Joisey guy and I busted up, as we both had family in the Soup Cutters Union.
I am pretty sure the seller here developed his skills in the Soup Cutters Union.
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
Posts: 19146
Location: bishop, ca | So....that's the unkindest cut of all?
Actually, when you sober up and think seriously about this car, the owner had no
other recourse, to cutting it in half, because breaking-up is hard to do.
Edited by d500neil 2012-08-17 2:25 AM
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Expert
Posts: 2612
Location: Parts Unknown |
The thought of trying to drive this car scares me half to death . . .
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Elite Veteran
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| I got half a mind to buy it.
We've all seen those 57 shebbies with the matching trailer in the back at car shows...you know, a trailer made from rear clip of another car.
Maybe that's what happened with this....of course if I buy this for that purpose it would have to go in FRONT of my car. I'm sure I could rig up something.
We should all pitch in and take it to Carlisle next year. It could be this forum's mascot, would fit under a tent, and only about half our cars go to Carlisle anyway. |
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Location: The Mile High City | This thing would probably only make it half-way to Carlisle.
But if you are considering the purchase, they say "half a loaf is better than no loaf" |
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Location: Parts Unknown | You guys are about half-baked. Don't give up your day jobs.
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Posts: 3581
Location: Blythewood, SC | I've half a mind to buy it.
Half of the car is rust free! |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
Posts: 19146
Location: bishop, ca | What would happen if this car mated with a Smart car?
Or is that prospect too retarded to contemplate?
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Location: Mid Michigan | Anyone got Half a day to go take a look |
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Location: The Mile High City | I would go halfsies on this one. |
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