Should i concider this cheap vette? rough. yaya or nay?
09-17-2012, 09:40 AM
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Le Mans Master
Reminds me of what many boaters say. Really just a hole in the middle of the lake, you throw money into. The parts car thing, may sound good at first, but gotta get it home first, and have room to work on it. Not to mention your labor pulling things off. No thanks.
09-17-2012, 11:14 AM
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Race Director
I'd buy it. I have paid more for worse and have made great cars from them. If you are looking for an investment walk away but for a project take it. I have done a few of these types. Don't listen to anyone on here unless they have done a full resto.
09-17-2012, 11:54 AM
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seats $600
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09-17-2012, 11:59 AM
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I've done a full rusto sooooo
I would buy it the tilt wheel is $500 the electric windows $300
trans $600
I would buy it just to pull the gas tnk sticker to see what the car is
you might hit a home run
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I would buy it the tilt wheel is $500 the electric windows $300
trans $600
I would buy it just to pull the gas tnk sticker to see what the car is
you might hit a home run
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09-17-2012, 12:24 PM
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That car needs a frame-off resto and lots of money to make it road-worthy, if you got the space and time. If the engine and tranny are shot, it's not even a parts car.
09-17-2012, 12:59 PM
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Drifting
If that car was the same year as my car, I'd absolutely purchase it as a parts car. Many of those things look to still be in decent shape and would only be purchased at great expense later on down the road.
That said, if you WILL purchase a Corvette and it WILL be of similar vintage to this particular car, I would ABSOLUTELY purchase it and take it apart. Squirrel away the good parts and throw away the rest. You'll be patting yourself on the back when you make your ultimate purchase and will learn a great deal about the car in the process.
Nothing better than taking apart something you don't intend on putting back together again!
That said, if you WILL purchase a Corvette and it WILL be of similar vintage to this particular car, I would ABSOLUTELY purchase it and take it apart. Squirrel away the good parts and throw away the rest. You'll be patting yourself on the back when you make your ultimate purchase and will learn a great deal about the car in the process.
Nothing better than taking apart something you don't intend on putting back together again!
09-17-2012, 01:05 PM
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There would be alot of time and money to bring this car back.It would be hard to invest the money on a car that may not return the money invested.If you intend a frame off,a older vette may cost more but a better return on your money would be likely.If you have the time buy the car as a parts car ,sell off the parts and in the process of taking this car apart learn about what you are getting yourself into.
09-17-2012, 08:37 PM
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Burning Brakes
For $500.00 I'd take a chance on it. Get it home, pull the body and check the frame and the birdcage, if everything looks good then you have a decision to make. Judging by the pictures I think you could easily double your money if you part it out. JMO
09-17-2012, 09:45 PM
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Le Mans Master
If your skills are up to it, buy it and bring it home to evaluate. Then you can:
a. Part it out
b. Try to put it back together as cheaply as you can
c. Make that custom you'd like since it isn't costing anything to begin with
Odds are the front windshield frame is shot, rusted out. If it becomes a fair weather car only, you might be OK but odds are you will still need to do windshield frame repair work.
Rear luggage compartment is broken so it has taken a heck of a rear end hit. The entire frame could be screwed, in that case, it is just parts and not that many.
Could be a perfect candidate for a station wagon kit.
Or a set of fiberglass bumpers molded into the body.
Four speed car could be fun to build up, but be sure to check all the prices and throw in another 50% just because. You can probably double your estimate to be close.
If you have never built a car before, then consider it a parts car you will take about and sell off on eBay, Craigslist, and swap meets. Trying to rebuild it if you never have before will run you $20,000 into it easily and you can buy a lot of nice cars for less. Heck, you can buy two of these in GREAT condition for what your costs will be.
a. Part it out
b. Try to put it back together as cheaply as you can
c. Make that custom you'd like since it isn't costing anything to begin with
Odds are the front windshield frame is shot, rusted out. If it becomes a fair weather car only, you might be OK but odds are you will still need to do windshield frame repair work.
Rear luggage compartment is broken so it has taken a heck of a rear end hit. The entire frame could be screwed, in that case, it is just parts and not that many.
Could be a perfect candidate for a station wagon kit.
Or a set of fiberglass bumpers molded into the body.
Four speed car could be fun to build up, but be sure to check all the prices and throw in another 50% just because. You can probably double your estimate to be close.
If you have never built a car before, then consider it a parts car you will take about and sell off on eBay, Craigslist, and swap meets. Trying to rebuild it if you never have before will run you $20,000 into it easily and you can buy a lot of nice cars for less. Heck, you can buy two of these in GREAT condition for what your costs will be.
09-18-2012, 12:34 AM
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Melting Slicks
absolutely buy it and rebuild it. You'll never make money on it, so you won't start rebuilding it (and cheaping out to save money) before you admit that you really do want the car to be something different.
Don't listen to the car dealers - seriously, you want a car no one cares about - and the overwhelming noise in this room is no one cares; it's just parts. Doing a car that is that far gone, will give you a huge amount of pride and confidence in your work - and best of all, because it's not worthy of restoring; if you totally muff it, you'll have the practice for when you do a car that can't be muffed.
It runs, it's a very desirably 4 speed, those cars are still junked with regularity so there's a billion parts out there - and very reasonable, especially if you do the swap meet thing and do not have a schedule to do it
buy it, now, and resurrect it. it's a perfect first car the fact it runs is simply icing on the cake.
but do not mistake me, that car's easily 2000 hours of work if it needs nothing but what we see
Don't listen to the car dealers - seriously, you want a car no one cares about - and the overwhelming noise in this room is no one cares; it's just parts. Doing a car that is that far gone, will give you a huge amount of pride and confidence in your work - and best of all, because it's not worthy of restoring; if you totally muff it, you'll have the practice for when you do a car that can't be muffed.
It runs, it's a very desirably 4 speed, those cars are still junked with regularity so there's a billion parts out there - and very reasonable, especially if you do the swap meet thing and do not have a schedule to do it
buy it, now, and resurrect it. it's a perfect first car the fact it runs is simply icing on the cake.
but do not mistake me, that car's easily 2000 hours of work if it needs nothing but what we see