looks like another one gone......

MercRS · Post by **MercRS** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:26 am

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/1132885398.html

looked like a nice car.I wonder if it coud be saved

ProTouringASC · Post by **ProTouringASC** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:36 am

Hard to tell without getting it on a frame machine, but it looks very repairable to me.

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

88stanglx · Post by **88stanglx** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:48 pm

repairable but i think they want too much money for it.

shelbyscarab · Post by **shelbyscarab** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:15 pm

It looks like its in pretty good shape. I hope someone saves it.

However, the way it was hit could be scary depending how bad the frame is. 40 mph could've knocked alot of stuff out of line.

Price didn't seem too far out of line if the interior is in great condition, it looks like a complete original car.....

75coug · Post by **75coug** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:36 pm

I e-mailed the seller a while back, asking for photos. Not long thereafter, he revised the ad to include the photos. Now I am trying to find out whether he would take a fair amount less for it and whether he would tow it to my place of storage.

No word on the shape of the interior.

Post by **negusm** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:26 pm

"fair amount less"?

It looks like easily a $1500 car.

Any less and it's worth more parted out...

Problem is that we do know that car's this cheap are a money pit of resto work.

-Mike

75coug · Post by **75coug** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:48 pm

negusm wrote:It looks like easily a $1500 car.

Maybe. Maybe not.

My goal would not be to restore such a car, though, even if it proves to be possible. As you have noted, the restoration cost would be great, and in all likelihood prohibitive in consideration of the limited post-restoration value of the car. Instead, I would simply save it from going to someone who might have bad things in mind for it.

It would be perpetually for sale, and if someone else came along who truly wanted to try to fix it up, I would sell it in a second. If not, then I would hold on to it, and in the event that something terrible befell my ascMcLaren at some point in the future, I would have a parts car at the ready.

86capri62 · Post by **86capri62** » Fri May 01, 2009 12:31 pm

Come on guys! This car is EASILY repairable for a driver if it is rustfree. No show car in mind but would be a nice driver.

75coug · Post by **75coug** » Fri May 01, 2009 5:34 pm

The seller never responded to my inquiry. Oh well.