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Even grand old beasts fall victim to pimpization (I actually saw this car not long ago)
That Benz would actually be kinda nice, if it weren't for those awful wheels.
Probably not the car mentioned in "fuel-injected Stingray and a 413"
I also believe that Imperials around this time frame used the same roof for both the 2- and 4-door hardtop. As a result, I think the car actually looks a bit better in 4-door form, while the 2-door suffers a bit!
As I recall, they're actually pretty attractive from the rear. Look kinda like a mega-sized '63 Valiant.
And the style did clean up pretty nicely for '64-66, IMO.
Now closed models did have really strange rooflines, and I don't like the way they look from the rear. I think it's mainly that front-end style that I like about them. Makes me think of a '58 Cadillac, just cleaned up some.
Other than that.... :P
Actually these cars are more fun to sit in and drive than to look at.....a Cadillac body from the early 60s on a Chrysler chassis and drive train would have been great!
Do they honestly feel this Corvair is worth more than the $1500 bid??
Its bad enough when what you are selling seems like a scam without putting a reserve on the darned thing. Citroen
'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
CORVAIR -- well now, a flat six engine that has been lying around for years and years is a very bad thing...the piston rings lay on the bottom side of the cylinder and rust into the cylinder wall. I bet the thing will smoke like a coal-fired power plant.
So it seems like you are buying an unseen Citroen from overseas, that may or may not arrive in the near future, and may or may not be legal to drive on our roads. Does that pretty much cover the deal?
I guess my big problem is that most scam deals involve wiring money to a place like Holland (where this car is supposedly located). Not to mention, the car is in Holland, but the seller is in Jersey, and the web address of the seller is Canadian.
'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
As for reserve prices, some of them can be pretty silly.
I found my '79 New Yorker on eBay, and I forget what the reserve was, but I think it had a buy-it-now price of $2500 or $2900. Well, I was the high bidder on it; I think I bid up to something like $725, but nobody hit the reserve. I contacted the seller, and we agreed to $900.
Well, when I went out to look at it, it was actually at a little sales lot, and a sign for $1695 on it.
I think my '76 LeMans had a buy it now price of $4500. I don't know what its reserve was either, but I think it got bid up to around $2500-3000 and didn't trip it. I contacted this guy too, and we agreed on $3000.
High reserves usually mean the person is fishing for a naive buyer (the old "eBay is a gold mine" theory, which isnt true), and then when no fish arrive, they run it again or close the deal privately. Basically the "greed factor" is operative here. Many of these "deadbeat buyer" complaints are, I betcha, from people who bid the car to the high reserve, told their friends, got laughed at, and kicked the deal.
Nice AMC survivor
Not a good idea to try to sell a car with pics of it being abused
I would kill for a european only spec two door classic range Rover.
I don't think normal people looking for cheap transportation buy 20 year old Audi 4000Qs, and if they do, they kind of deserve whats comming to them.
"Your Audi is fixed.....for now".
Does he even know what pistons are
It looks like it has 19,000 miles
If it's well worth fixing, why are you dumping it?
I'd gladly trade a BMW for this 17 year old pickup
Its too bad its not a 91 wagon, then you get the 20 valve turbo (225hp, and pretty quick for that size of car). The downside is you get UFO brakes, which are $$$ to do anything.
Owners of beater 944s also like to brag that they got it up to 160 mph one night (probably driving home from his favorite bar). This tells me two things - that the seller is a liar and an idiot.
Just for example and I don't mean to offend anyone but after 10 years in various parts of the automotive business this is what I have seen.
For the most part people that drive Monte Carlos are jerks.
The older the Monte the bigger the jerk up until 1981 at least. Once you go older then the 1981 generation then they become normal people again.
I dunno. I just find it a little suspicious when you are based in Lakewood, NJ and your website is based in a different country altogether.
Do they have a location in Canada? It doesn't say so on the website.
And where are those cars they show for sale? Canada or US?
Sure, I could call and find out where they are and actually go visit them since Lakewood is only 9 miles from my house ... but they want WAY too much for the cars anyway. I'm just saying ... if i WASN'T so close and was interested in what they are offering, I'd be HIGHLY suspicious.
'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 hope this doesn't make me a liar and an idiot because I am attracted to 944s.
There are a couple of cars where I can't pinpoint a stereotypical owner -
Porsche Boxsters - a lot of people call them girl cars, but in my area they are almost exclusively driven by guys.
MINIs - not necessarily girls cars, but known more as for effiminate guys (so to speak). I love them, but my wife says I am too big to look right driving one.
I own well owned a MINI I just sold it and same thing can't pin down a type for them. You can see some trends though. Regular coopers are more likely to be owned by women or men that are just past middle age. Color really effects who drives the car. Yellow MINI Coopers are almost always driven by when younger then 30.
MINI Cooper S models are about evenly split men vs. women but the darker colors like Cosmos Black, Chili Red(my car was chili red with black roof and mirrors) the old Indi Blue tend to be owned by men.
I am a fairly big guy too, 6 feet tall 225 lbs, and I never looked funny driving my MINI.
The new Hyper blue seems to be owned by more women.
I got some rover demographics too.
According to land rover Discos were BOUGHT about 90% of the time by men and their average income was just over 100,000 dollars a year.
Now I actually see who is driving these Discos most of the time and in my opinion it is closer to a 50/50 split between men and women driving discos.
Land Rover obviously realised their mistake and has corrected it with the LR3 by making it a much more female friendly vehicle. You see this in who buys and drives them as I would say it is almost an even 50/50 split.
Now I actually see who is driving these Discos most of the time and in my opinion it is closer to a 50/50 split between men and women driving discos.
well, yeah, i assume they were bought by men for their wives to drive.
'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
Conn Smythe's Cadillac - never heard of him, and his car looks pretty bad.
These Austin Healey replicas I like. Are they all Sebrings, or do various people build them?
Just as people who own pre-1970 MB tend to be pretty cool...
A friend of mine has an 83 and an 85 Monte. He's a good guy, but the people who come up to him about his cars (and it happens more as time goes on) have been pretty wacky.
BMW drivers in Bellevue...I'll hold myself back.
About the Model A, you should be able to get a real roadster for under 20K (which amuses me as they were worth more 25 years ago - their fans are dying off), and I would go the real route if I wanted that look. The cars are simple and parts are plentiful. I kind of like them, neat sound.
Cheap high miles C36
Ughhh.
Ditto the Healey....GEEZ, putting a 302 V-8 with automatic in an A-H kit car is IMHO "unclear on the concept". The A-H is nothing without a torquey straight six and an overdrive 4-speed transmission. And if you can spend $20K on a boring plastic replica why not spend $30K and get a decent REAL one (maybe not a show car, but a decent clean driver). I mean, you know that AH replica is going to drive like a rental car.
Another downside of replicas are, I think, a) you will suffer the sneers and ridicule of anyone who knows the real cars, and you won't be allowed in shows with the genuine articles displayed and b) you will take a tremendous loss on your investment.
Replicas spiral down in value to nothingness, except for the replica Cobras, which spiral down slowly and bottom out eventually to about 1/3 their MSRP value. I actually like the Cobra replicas, because a) the real ones cost so much and b) the real ones were really kind of kit cars anyway.
So you can build a replica that looks like, performs like, drives like and sounds like the original. What's not to like?
TRADE CHERRY TOYOTA 4X4 for beater Bimmer? In a red hot minute!!!
"Needs Piston" --- LOL! No car needs ONE piston. It doesn't work that way.
"worth fixing" -- if you can get an automatic transmission R&Rd and rebuilt for $700, well more power to you. Who believes this?
STEREOTYPES -- like all stereotypes, they are gross generalizations, but there is often a grain of truth in them, no doubt about it.
Believe it or not, that's how some police departments work when maintaining their cars. My uncle knows a guy who used to be a mechanic for some jurisdiction in Virginia, and if something happened like, say, a valve went bad, they'd tear the car down, replace THAT valve. Nevermind the fact that if one went bad, can the others be that far behind?
My uncle told me this story soon after I bought my '89 Gran Fury, an ex-police car, and had the impression that even if police cars get pushed harded, they're also maintained better.
BTW, my '89 Gran Fury got retired from the City of Richmond when the #8 camshaft lobe failed. Supposedly that was a common problem with the 1989 318's. But what exactly happens one just one lobe fails? Would it be enough to screw up the whole engine, or would it just run on 7 cylinders then, until you replaced the camshaft?
The place I bought my car from pulled a 318 out of a wrecked 1988 Diplomat and dropped it in, but even here I'm wondering...wouldn't it be easier to just replace a camshaft, versus swapping in a complete engine?
You can swap in a new camshaft but you also have to replace the lifters and rocker arms, otherwise you'll just eat up the new camshaft real quick.
One of the troopers told me that they had started getting the oil for as little as 20 cents a quart.
When ford switched over to a 5w20 for the Crown Vic they were in a panic because the cheapest you could buy that oil when it first came out was $2.50 a quart.
Looks OK for a beater
These are uncommon
For 500 bucks how bad could it be hehehe
I actually always liked these 5 speed makes it more intersting.
I am sure this is overpriced.
Talkign about Montes
Stay away
This guy has a lot of old muscle cars but I have never heard of him.
Ughh if this was 4wd would be my new trail rig.
Over priced?
E55 never did it for me.
I kinda like the E55, but at $29500 for a '99, it's more than a bit overpriced. There's one in my area (a 2001) with similar miles for about five thousand dollars less.