69 Cuda Notchback Very Little Rust

gregpurcell said
Yes it's been parted. When I got it it had one door and one fender on it. The owner had actually contacted a scrap yard about having it hauled off. The parts that are on it now were in a shed. Some that I DIDN"T get in the deal came off other cars.

It would have been SO much easier to sell those parts rather than take take the time to put it back together, prime it, list it and take the abuse that goes with such a listing.

A couple of comments on FABO is abuse? I didn't say anything until the Ebay auction ended. And nothing on the actual ad (ebay). This thread is just a link to the actual ad.

You make it sound like it's a easy restorable car. But it's been parted and pieced back together. It's missing all kinds of little stuff. The poor sap that tries to fix it up to decent driver form by itself without another parts car will be so backwards in dollars it's just sad.

The buyers of cars like these are put on the Mopar hobby death wish list. Usually a young person from 18-28 years old with some discretionary income, no commitments, and lured into a project like this because of the low buy in price. So that person puts $10K and a few prime years in his life into this car. When it's still not running, he gets frustrated, sells it, and is out of the Mopar hobby for good.

I could have sold the torsion bars and adjuster bolts, upper and lower control arms, any frame rails that were good. Also the steering box and column, remaining glass, dash frame and gauge circuit board are all very good parts. After that I could have gotten
$100 or more for the carcass across the scales at the scrap yard.

The fenders, doors and sheet metal would have fit in a pickup truck on the trip to the Nats. I wouldn't need to drag in a car trailer, pay more fuel, and buy extra space.
I would have also made more money more quickly.

Lot of time and hard work to dismantle something to a carcass. And it takes up a lot more room than a complete car. It won't all sell at one swap meet. And it will take lot of ebay listings with take time also to create, maintain, answer questions, and ship.

It's a lot of hard work to part out a car and sell the individual pieces. I'm sure you are all too familiar with that.