Did you recently take on (or consider) a loan of 84 months or longer on a car purchase?
A reporter would like to speak with you about your experience; please reach out to PR@Edmunds.com by 7/25 for details.
A reporter would like to speak with you about your experience; please reach out to PR@Edmunds.com by 7/25 for details.
Options
Comments
I ran out and hollered at them "what's up?!". The driver just looked at me with this confused look on his face. I said "You're not going to dump that thing on my property are you?!" And he said "Yeah". :surprise:
I asked him what the name was, and the address, and said jokingly that there's no way I'd allow a POS Furd like that on my property!".
Well, turns out that they wanted the house two doors down, which is only off by one number (I'm 2112, they're 2212). They're really pushing it, down there. The house is abandoned, and looks it. There's an early 80's-looking International school bus with busted-out headlights, three Ford extended passenger vans slowly disappearing into the forest, a '93 or so Corolla, and an early Sienna minivan...all of them with no tags on them.
If they're trying to out-do me, I'd say they've won! At least none of my vehicles are wrecked, and they all have tags on them (except for that '52 Benz I stashed away for a friend), I have a garage to put some of them in and a long driveway to put the rest on...and I haven't graduated to buses yet! :P
I guess it's a good thing I was home when that truck came by. Otherwise, they might've just dumped it and took off, and I would've come home not knowing what the heck to do about it.
I have been buying and selling cars for a long time and you never know how people are going to react. I would love to hear your car buying haggling experiences.
not really sure what to expect. i would assume i don't have to enter any sort of judging category.
A non-hemi 426???
Such great photo's
I'm thinkin' this guy doesn't know what he's selling.
All the raised-deck B-engines, the 383, 413, 426, and 440, used the same 3.75" stroke, so basically a 383 crankshaft IS a 426 crankshaft.
Shifty, how did you end up with 432? I did the math, and came out to 425.59, which is close enough to 426 for gov't work. :P Also, the 383 regular-deck and the 426 have the same 4.25" bore, so it would reason that if you put the raised-deck crank in the 383, you'd end up with 426 CID. However, would a raised-deck crank fit in a regular-deck engine?
Yes, sounds fishy, I would think it's a 'rased deck engine" because it has a stroked crank. I'd think he'd be pushing the pistons into the head with just a crank swap. But '426' sure sounds good, like '427' or '327'. Certain displacements seem to bring up lots of good memories.
How far is "typical" when you do a bore job? I did the math and found out that if you had a bore of 4.28" and used the RB's 3.75" stroke crankshaft, that would give you a 432 CID. The 383 uses a 4.25" bore, so .03" bigger would do it.
Is that what they mean when they say something like ".030 Over"?
Which would also be 3 hundredths, right? So is "30 over" a common overbore?
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
Nobody fantasizes about a Berlinetta with AC delete, especially not in Texas
I was thinking who cares. There was a million Wranglers made, most are beat up, yours is probably too, and nobody cares if yours had a rare radio delete option. I can delete my radio too by pulling it out btw. :confuse:
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
The rule of thumb with collectible cars is "unloved then, unloved now".
That's where 'collectable' is different than 'valuable'. It's like those folks who collect things like Hummels, "gotta have #53b of series IX", that kind of thing. Nothing to do with actual value.
And in regards to that Berlinetta, if it didn't have any major popular options, who cares if it had a power antenna?
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
Probably cheaper than a real coffin! Seriously though, wouldn't significant prep have to be done to the car? Draining all the fluids, stripping anything off that could harm the soil?
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic
This must be in some state with looser environmental laws, like maybe Nevada where you could be buried in an atomic bomb I'd imagine.
link title
That's me in the dark hair...
It would do up to 25 knots, tow several skiers (that's what a 383 will do for you!)
Two other neat tricks - you steer with the steering wheel, the front tires sit on turntables connected to the rudder.
Most neat - it's not a barge, it's two hulls that fold together, if you're on the water you 'drive' up to a boat ramp, drive the car off, fold up the hulls keel-to-keel, hook it up to the cars tow hitch, and you're on your way, no trailer required. You can see one of the road wheels of the boat here, far left:
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
It was featured in a 2005 Calendar "Legendary Sports Cars"
Trans Am
GS
Sittin' on 20s... Why??
has brakes on it but the do no work
good beater
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic
Yeah, I noticed that too. I think that era of Crown Vic only put out around 150 hp, while I'm sure the Mustang's 302 was more like 225-230 or more. I think the Crown Vic put out some pretty good torque figures though, thanks to long intake runners or something like that? But still, I couldn't see someone using one of these as parts for a Mustang...unless there's something I'm missing?
It would be a neat trick though, to put a Mustang 5.0 in a Crown Vic. Or better yet, one of those small LTD's. Ford actually tried something somewhat like that, with the 1985 LTD LX. It used a 165 hp 302, and was a pretty good performer IIRC. I think they only made around 3,000 of them.
My dad came up with the idea while in Japanese prison camp during WWII. Luckily, he and my mom were civillians.