Ebay scares me with cars, I've listed an '87 GLHS on there and a '71 Road
Runner, both sold (the RR twice) and the buyers back out literally within 5
minutes of the auctions ending, when it comes to cars people seem to think ebay
is a video game, "Look, I won!"
Adam
In a message dated 7/7/2011 1:56:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Or, you
could Evilpay it with your investment amount as its opening bid with no
other Reserve amount on it.
No guarantees in life, or love.
Neil
Vedder
Bill K. wrote: > 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. > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:52:46 -0400 >>
From: Adam Lindenbaum <AdamL57@xxxxxxx> >>
Subject: 300K factory 4 speed >> >>
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7bit >> >> 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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7bit >> >> >> 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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