A good example of buying a 70 Duster done rather than building one
Exactly. At $20k this thing is a pile of hot garbage.
This is beyond "done differently". And as far as building a similar car for the price- are you including the price of fixing all the stuff that is very clearly wrong and needs to be fixed? The paint on this car won't last a couple years, and underneath that paint is metal work that was skipped and covered over. From the larger eBay images...
Remember everything under this splatter paint looks like this. Zero prep and rust. Wonder what's under the topcoat?
Same deal with the topcoat. It's peeling off the edges, the prep is atrocious. And the grille is cooked.
Rust bubbles, and terrible gaps
Look how sunken in the marker light is. Big dent, bondo above it.
C'mon man! This stuff is easy to fix, but dang
Starter relay on the firewall next to the wiper motor. I count three different brake line unions in one square foot. This isn't just "doing it differently". This is shadetree nonsense.
I'd rather buy a shell for $3k and put $17K into it. The stuff that you see that makes this car appealing is all hack job- the paint is terrible, there was no prep and there is rust underneath it. The body gaps are all over the place. And that's obvious from low resolution internet pictures. The paint is gonna be peeling off this thing in short order, with metal work to do underneath it. Just with paint, even if you do it all yourself you've got $5k in materials for a repaint. The brake lines need to be completely replaced. The wiring is marginal.
Everything that was done to this car has to be redone. At least with a shell with original paint you'd be able to see what you're getting into. This thing is gonna wipe out someone's savings, end up torn half apart again, and get sold again as an incomplete project when whoever buys it realizes it'll be another $20k to get it right.
Exactly. At $20k this thing is a pile of hot garbage.
This is beyond "done differently". And as far as building a similar car for the price- are you including the price of fixing all the stuff that is very clearly wrong and needs to be fixed? The paint on this car won't last a couple years, and underneath that paint is metal work that was skipped and covered over. From the larger eBay images...
Remember everything under this splatter paint looks like this. Zero prep and rust. Wonder what's under the topcoat?
Same deal with the topcoat. It's peeling off the edges, the prep is atrocious. And the grille is cooked.
Rust bubbles, and terrible gaps
Look how sunken in the marker light is. Big dent, bondo above it.
C'mon man! This stuff is easy to fix, but dang
Starter relay on the firewall next to the wiper motor. I count three different brake line unions in one square foot. This isn't just "doing it differently". This is shadetree nonsense.
I'd rather buy a shell for $3k and put $17K into it. The stuff that you see that makes this car appealing is all hack job- the paint is terrible, there was no prep and there is rust underneath it. The body gaps are all over the place. And that's obvious from low resolution internet pictures. The paint is gonna be peeling off this thing in short order, with metal work to do underneath it. Just with paint, even if you do it all yourself you've got $5k in materials for a repaint. The brake lines need to be completely replaced. The wiring is marginal.
Everything that was done to this car has to be redone. At least with a shell with original paint you'd be able to see what you're getting into. This thing is gonna wipe out someone's savings, end up torn half apart again, and get sold again as an incomplete project when whoever buys it realizes it'll be another $20k to get it right.