Good steering wheel in it, they're worth a few hundred bucks all by
themselves. Even a crappy one is worth $100 or so as a core. It should have
that kind of square one in it.
Someone on the HAMB just got another one like it that's nice, it's a driver,
might be worth a search there and see if he needs anything. In the same
thread another guy talks about one he had and parted out and he sold a lot
out of it.
These are not that popular, unfortunately. It's a good car to part out,
you'd make your money back, especially if it's a bucket seat car - the
column, the shifter and linkage, the clutch linkage and pedals, that stuff
is extremely scarce. The 300 badges and specific trim would be hard to find
too. But as bad as you say it is, it's not economically viable to restore
it. Realistically on the open market a really, really nice one might bring
$20K at auction.
However, sell the motor and trans to the redneck yourself, spend a couple
days picking the best parts off it, and you should still be able to do $300
or $400 out of the carcass and come out ahead - and the guys who do have
manual trans 300s will thank you for it. (might offer them the trans and so
forth first, too).
Or, you could buy it, stash it, and wait for a nice 63-64 Chrysler to turn
up cheap and put all the goodies into that car. It shouldn't be too hard,
hell I saw a 4-door '64 on the road apparently as a winter rat in Herkimer
last year, it was January and it was in the Wal-mart parking lot....
Bill K.
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:52:46 -0400
From: Adam Lindenbaum <AdamL57@xxxxxxx>
Subject: 300K factory 4 speed
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I just came across an extremely rotted but complete '64 300K factory 4
speed one owner car. It's a single 4 bbl, manual window, seats, non a/c
car.
Any chrome trim is pitted badly and some of the stainless is bent. From
what
I've found here on the internet there were 82 4 speed cars made and 15
accounted for, I have no real interest in trying to restore it myself but
it's
other option is a local "red-neck" wants to buy it and yank the
engine/trans and scrap the rest (scrap is up to $11.00 per hundred
pounds, good beer
money). Is this car worth $1,500? I can't stand to see it go the crusher
as
rare as it is but I can't invest money in it to have it lay around here
and
rot away.It would need a non-letter series car as a body donor or at
least
a sheet metal donor. The guy has the new car paperwork and all from the
dealer, it's a shame, he parked it in '73 and let it just rot away.
Adam Lindenbaum
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:12:33 -0400
From: Adam Lindenbaum <AdamL57@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 300K factory 4 speed
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Let me rephrase that, if I buy it, pay to have a non-rolling car flat
bedded here, ect., have about $1700-$1800 invested, will I be able to get
my
money out of it without having to sit on it for 2 or 3 years, I'd need it
gone
quickly, I'm not looking to get rich, just save an extremely rare car from
the crusher.
Adam Lindenbaum
In a message dated 7/6/2011 8:53:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
AdamL57@xxxxxxx writes:
I just came across an extremely rotted but complete '64 300K factory 4
speed one owner car. It's a single 4 bbl, manual window, seats, non a/c
car.
Any chrome trim is pitted badly and some of the stainless is bent. From
what
I've found here on the internet there were 82 4 speed cars made and 15
accounted for, I have no real interest in trying to restore it myself but
it's
other option is a local "red-neck" wants to buy it and yank the
engine/trans and scrap the rest (scrap is up to $11.00 per hundred
pounds, good beer
money). Is this car worth $1,500? I can't stand to see it go the crusher
as
rare as it is but I can't invest money in it to have it lay around here
and
rot away.It would need a non-letter series car as a body donor or at least
a sheet metal donor. The guy has the new car paperwork and all from the
dealer, it's a shame, he parked it in '73 and let it just rot away.
Adam Lindenbaum
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