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I decided it was time to just cut my losses (ok ok, there's no losses) and let the car go. I don't need it, nor do I want the headache of fixing it. 'Cides, there's probably another project car out there waiting for me!
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Congratulations! You did the right thing.
Congratulations! You did the right thing.
I don't accept checks for cars! She gave me cold hard CASH!!!
I think I did the right thing, I mean I didn't need the car, her son was thrilled with it. He's going to fix it and drive it......teenagers!!
Okay then...cash that cash! Do they still take cash where you live?
Okay then...cash that cash! Do they still take cash where you live?
LOL, yup, cash works. I was going to keep the Sebring for my son to learn on since it is a perfect teenager car.
Now off to search craigslist for my next project. I hear there's a nice little Protege at the junkyard.........
Prices are NUTS and what would a person do with one of those Trailer Queens?
A 1959 De Soto Convertable went for 285,000!!
It was over restored and drop dead beautiful.
As I watched, I was thinking, what if? What if someone backed into it and damaged an irreplaceable piece of trim?
What if, ANYTHING happened to it? How in the world could anyone take the chance of driving it around the block?
285,000!
Oh I think I know that car---that's an Adventurer....they only made 97 of them originally, and this one (how many could be left) was given a cost-no-object restoration by Greg Groom, the Chrysler 300 specialist.
So you've got not just a Desoto convertible, but an extremely rare model with maybe 10 left in the world, and probably well over $150,000 spent on it.
This is what the average observer doesn't get informed about by the media when coverning B-J auctions.
This is really more a metal sculpture at this point than a car. Even the paint on the air filters looks better than the outside of a new Maybach.
This is a very early W112, with the thin window trim and weirdo upholstery. Looks good. These cars bring a little in Europe. This car was probably updated over time, as it has a later steering wheel and W109 headlights.
In the case of a '57 Chevy, everything is reproduced these days and a minor mishap wouldn't be a disaster.
With an oddball car like that De Soto certain parts I'm sure are completly unobtainable at any price.
So what do you do? Seal it in a galss bubble?
A few people have the ambition to just drive the hell out of them and bang them all up and then restore them all over again. That's certainly what I would do. I wouldn't care how rare or expensive it was---I'd drive it wherever and whenever I wanted.
that's exactly how i feel. i want cars to drive them, not show them off or stare at them just sitting there.
ok, maybe i wouldn't quite drive them "whenever or wherever" since I'd keep them out of the bad weather and wouldn't park them in bad parts of town ... but other than that....
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
I mean, even the undercarriage looks very clean for an old car like that.
When I had my first new car and detailed it myself all the time, and remembered as to how it could take all day long to clean all the nooks and crannies, and hard to get places. Then I'd take it out one day it would start raining and I was back to where I started before.
Even if these cars aren't driven they still get dusty and so on.
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I can't get into the undercarriage detailing. I like to have extremely clean paint and chrome, but that's just too much. I've barely ever even cleaned out a wheel well before...I'll get the insides of the wheel opening/lip, and that's it. If you drive the car, it's too hard to make that effort not go to waste.
Price is fair enough though if there's nothing horribly wrong with it.
Nice, reasnoble restoration, fine. Trailer Queen? Not for me!
NO WAY did these cars come rom the factory with spit shined like that! Shiny black driveshafts etc.
Nice to look at but unrealistically over restored.
Not very much like the slam-bang assembly done in the late 1950s early 60s in Detroit. More like dripping body sealer everywhere, over-spray, badly aligned doors and hood, crooked bumpers, etc. I remember one film clip of pistons being installed with wooden mallets.
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Looks more like an amateur cosmetic refurbishment, which is not a "restoration", so $5,500 for that kind of work is high, yeah.
He wanted 12,000 for it which seems crazy but you wouldn't believe it. It started as a low mile CA car that he had done the right way. He had a photo album of the restoration process. No reproduction parts. The engine and transmission had been totally rebulit using all german parts. Nothng Mickey Mouse and it wasn't over restored.
I should have bought it.
At an auction in Canada maybe 5-6 years ago there was a very nicely restored ca. 1959 Beetle as well, it brought around $8K US, seemed worth it, it seemed very well done.
Automatic Transmission, 292000 miles
In some way, I think its funny we like to pick out cars that drive you nuts. I think its because we know you chuckle reading the descriptions.
It would be nice to make one out of the two of them. Cars with a lot of rust in the body always freak me out because you never know what's going on with the suspension. I just looked at a rusty car where the front wheel fell off at 60 mph. Not pretty. A-arm just broke off.
As far as random suspension failures, I have a couple of friends that are concerned about the E36 rear suspension mounting bugaboo. I guess it requires removing the rear suspension and differential and welding in support brackets.
The 'bulletproof' claim about the glass on these cars always amuses me. Double paned doesn't make bulletproof. Huge price, too.
The 'bulletproof' claim about the glass on these cars always amuses me. Double paned doesn't make bulletproof. Huge price, too.
The tires seem chunkier than the factory tires, and it looks as if it's sitting about half an inch lower to the ground (the wieght of the armor?).
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If it's a true armored model, then it is very cheap.
Oh yeah, the "Super Six" 2-bbl setup the seller hypes up boosts the slant six's horsepower by 10. So now it has all of 110 hp. In a car that weighs about 3500 pounds.
Hey, on that 292K mile Volvo, I notice the seller says "No third seat". Did they actually offer these WITH a 3rd seat? I didn't think that it was possible, or at least easily doable, to get a 3rd row seat in a RWD wagon this small. At least, I don't think the domestics ever offered a 3rd row in a compact/downsized midsized RWD wagon. Usually about the smallest RWD wagon that would offer a 3rd row would be something like a '77 Malibu, '78 Monaco/Fury, or '79 LTD-II/Cougar, or the downsized Ford/GM fullsizers.