old yellow 78
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Agh! What a shame.
CL ads that make you almost laugh
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Aspen500
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Oh man, that sucks in so many ways.
Aspen500
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The way it's sunk into the ground, I'd be afraid of what the underside looks like, especially if it's been sitting there as long as it looks like it has.
That was my thought. The only potential saving grace is, it almost looks like it’s sitting on a couple railroad ties...but probably just smaller pieces of scrap wood thrown off by perspective of the photo lol
It's worth looking at, but probably a ton of money and labor to restore. It would have to be a heck of a deal to be worth tackling. People don't realize how much damage they have done when they "stored" their car for "future restoration".
Aspen500
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That's why I'd be cautious. I've seen way too many cars that the owner was "going to restore someday" that they parked next to the house, on the grass and left it there for years as it rotted more and more. Worse is they cover it with a blue tarp to "protect it" and the tarp only makes matters worse.
Saddest one was an almost perfect condition '71 Charger, 440, 4-speed, A/C, power windows, and a crap load of other options and from what I heard, less than 50,000 miles. It was a beautiful car. This was in the mid '80's btw. The story was it developed a miss that was thought to be a burned exhaust valve. Car sat, next to the guys garage (worse yet, it was on the north side of the house), covered with one of those blue tarps for a year, then 5 years, then 10, then 20 but he refused to sell. Then one day I spotted it on the back of a Yaeger's Auto Salvage rollback. Went to see it in the yard and there was nothing left of it. Subframe rails, gone. Floors, gone (the bucket seats were hanging out the bottom of the car) 1/4's, doors, fenders rotted away at least a foot up from the bottom, oil pan rotted so bad you could almost change bearings without taking it off, almost the entire bottom of the fuel tank was missing, even the hood rotted through. Of course, the previously mint interior was trashed by mold, mildew, and rodents..............When they picked it up off the rollback with the forks, it just about broke in half. What a waste.
Saddest one was an almost perfect condition '71 Charger, 440, 4-speed, A/C, power windows, and a crap load of other options and from what I heard, less than 50,000 miles. It was a beautiful car. This was in the mid '80's btw. The story was it developed a miss that was thought to be a burned exhaust valve. Car sat, next to the guys garage (worse yet, it was on the north side of the house), covered with one of those blue tarps for a year, then 5 years, then 10, then 20 but he refused to sell. Then one day I spotted it on the back of a Yaeger's Auto Salvage rollback. Went to see it in the yard and there was nothing left of it. Subframe rails, gone. Floors, gone (the bucket seats were hanging out the bottom of the car) 1/4's, doors, fenders rotted away at least a foot up from the bottom, oil pan rotted so bad you could almost change bearings without taking it off, almost the entire bottom of the fuel tank was missing, even the hood rotted through. Of course, the previously mint interior was trashed by mold, mildew, and rodents..............When they picked it up off the rollback with the forks, it just about broke in half. What a waste.
I feel like that’s the case with Mopars in particular. Guys get ahold of them with dreams of fixing them up, life gets in the way but, they’re unable to let go of the car for whatever it happens means to them; and when they are willing to part with them, they’re near rotted in half and they still want $8k for what’s left.
The guy I bought my wheels from had a small Mopar grave yard in the back of his residential rental property and everything was rotting into the ground. Road runners, a GTX, a couple darts. Just toast from the elements, time and neglect. But the guy is a die hard Mopar guy...just couldn’t let go.
The guy I bought my wheels from had a small Mopar grave yard in the back of his residential rental property and everything was rotting into the ground. Road runners, a GTX, a couple darts. Just toast from the elements, time and neglect. But the guy is a die hard Mopar guy...just couldn’t let go.
Oldiron440
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I haven't seen it with dream's of restoration but selling for the big bucks. Holding on to a horde to someday fill the pockets of cash only to have scrap thirty years later.
Oh man, that would hurt on a few levels.
Vanilla Thunder
Finally.
“This V8 has traveled 147,171 miles. That's nearly equivalent to 6 trips around the planet. What does that tell us? Experience. This truck has real world experience. That's good for something, probably.”
Finally.
“This V8 has traveled 147,171 miles. That's nearly equivalent to 6 trips around the planet. What does that tell us? Experience. This truck has real world experience. That's good for something, probably.”
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7T8 Custom
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NOW that`s an ad. Makes ME want to but it. NOT. At least it`s funny.
Oldiron440
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Funny
And original attempt to sell a vehicle, he will get more people looking at it from people talking about it that one might think.
And original attempt to sell a vehicle, he will get more people looking at it from people talking about it that one might think.
Aspen500
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LOL!
Aspen500
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Aspen500
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That would be a problem. About the only thing I know of are those screens that go on the ends of the stacks but they only keep the big chunks out.
Three of an air filter like this would work, too. Made for Weber carbs.
Three of an air filter like this would work, too. Made for Weber carbs.
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Aspen500
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Guess you posted while I was editing my post. They do make real air filters for Weber side draft carbs. (see above)
Mesh on the strip, real air filter on the street.
Mesh on the strip, real air filter on the street.
