Beware, ebay item #1810506823, if you think you must have this car for
parts, ask very direct questions AND require the owner to send you a
complete set of photos starting at one point of the car & going completely
around the car inside & out & all aspects of the engine compartment.
It's a parts car at best & any of our good parts suppliers on IML could most
likely furnish better parts for less.
Below is my direct report to a fellow IML'er, cleaned up for distribution of
course.
Bill & Jan McPheeters, Visalia, Ca
From: <bilorjan@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Jeff
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: IML: listed as a 1965 Imperial Crown Victoria
> Good morning Jeff,
I checked the 65 Imperial crown yesterday & what a
> disappointment. It's been setting outside nearly 20 years, a rust hole the
> size of a saucer between the back window & trunk drivers side, it has a
huge
> home made trailer hitch & has been bottomed out causing bad damage to the
> under side of passenger rear fender & who knows what else.
> Trunk doesn't have a latch so has been partially open for all that time &
it
> was raining while I was there so trunk floor & inside of car was soaked as
> one wind wing & one big window were & have been open all those years. I
> didn't bother pulling the carpet back as I could tell the entire interior
of
> car is trash.
> Car has Auto pilot (wires removed), power vents, door locks, tilt wheel
with 12" 1972 (?) Pep
> Boys steering wheel, original radio, A/C and nothing works or could
> work. Wiring has been cut everywhere on this car, inside the car, under
the
> dash, in the engine compartment, the destruction to this car is some of
the
> worst I've ever seen.
> It is completely misrepresented by omission of an accurate description on
ebay.
> The owner told me he has had emails & one guy ask if it
> ran & he told him sure. I told the owner how could you do that, he said
well
> if he completely restores it, it will run, that is his mentality. I said
the
> man's question meant would it run now & there is no damn way it's going to
> run & he said I know but I want it gone.
> There has not been an air cleaner or oil fill cap on it for all the years
its been sitting,
> yet he told me he had the engine completely rebuilt & it has less than
"one
> mile" on it before being parked. The power steering fill cap is a
Snap-E-Tom can.
> The grill & head light glass are ok, not good but ok.
> Parts of the A/C tubing are missing, heater core has been by-passed for a
> long time before he parked it.
> The person bidding on it is up for an awakening.
> Bill & Jan McPheeters, Visalia, Ca
>
>
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