Well, don't take offense to this, but this car is "rough". Sure the frame is
solid. but what about the floors, rockers, quarters, wheel lips. Just from
the front, the fender and hood are toast. The drip rail needs work for sure.
This is by far not a car that "needs little to make it nice"
Now I'm not saying it can't be fixed. The question is it worth fixing. By
looks of the pic, it needs just about everything. People make alot out of
body work, because bodywork is a huge deal, especailly if you pay someone to
do it right.
I'd have to agree with the clown.
Us old mopar folks have to realize one thing, having an old car doesn't
necessarily make it worth money. The car needs to be desireable also.
This is a good project for someone who plans on doing all the work
themselves, where time is not money. But to farm this out to get fixed up,
you'd be into the car for 10k before you could say boo. And being it's a 57
Plaza, even with a great restoration, it's not worth hardly anything.
If it's so great, you'd be better off parting it out. make more money and
make some other folks happy by getting good parts. I've paid quite a bit less
for cars that were in better shape and I could drive.
Now as far as the "clown" goes. Tell him if he does not like the price, then
don't buy it
Nick
> So this Plymouth I'm trying to sell, has a drip rail off one side of the
> roof.
>
> Now it's not my car, but I have this clown e-mail me through eBay giving me
> basically a bunch of, well manure, over the prices on it because "it's so
> rusty it's only good for some trim pieces" .... I set the prices more or
> less based on the owner's asking price and where he said to start it out at,
> plus where others have sold in past auctions.
>
> So the question is this - how likely is the car to need major work because
> the drip rail area is rusted? I would think you could POR-15 the heck out
> of it for a temp repair until it's time to paint the car. I'm being told it
> has major structural problems there, but by someone who's only basing that
> on a photo.
>
> Even if this is a major repair, it's not that hard to find others like this
> in the junkyard that have no undersides left, cut the roof right off, if
> you're going to totally redo the paint on this you'd have the glass out
> anyways - so cut it off like you were going to chop it and weld the other
> top on. Couple days work. Not that big a deal relative to hanging new
> floors, rockers and quarter panels, I don't think.
>
> I don't think it's a bad car at all, given that it needs pretty minimal work
> to make a driver out of it, so long as you can round up a motor that would
> bolt in or at least work with the trans in it. Even there you could change
> the whole drivetrain out if you had to. Have never seen one of these in the
> local car shows, because for the most part if you want one you need to go
> out west to find one that's not rotted.
>
> There is a second set of the photos up at
> www.angelfire.com/ny5/classicauto/57plymouth.html with a good close up of
> the rusted area.
>
> Opinions?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill K.
>
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