harrisonm
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None of my business, but don't buy it! You can do SO MUCH BETTER for $35,000. Even if I LOVED 66 Barracudas and that was exactly what I wanted, I still would not pay $20,000 for it.
Buy a car without physically seeing it
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middleagecrisis
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You have a PM
moosestang
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Has anyone been to one of these car auctions? I'm shocked how much some of these classics sold for. a 1973 nova that looked perfect sold for $11k. a 66 dodge dart gt sold for 20k. They've got 3 barrcudas being auctioned, a 1965 that i posted a link to, a 1968 with a hemi and a 66 that looks like it might be original. What might a 68 with a hemi go for? The undercarriage is spectacular. 1968 Plymouth Barracuda Hemi
junkyardhero
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if i had to guess that 68 is probably in the 60K + range, i see other similar cars in the 50~75K range, but whether they're moving or not i don't know.
a few interesting choices (to me at least) in that they kept the KH front discs and there's no subframe connectors. but some very nice touches of keeping the dash stock (with a factory tach!) and not "resto-modding" the interior. it's very tidy all around.
all in all, i'd consider this to be head and shoulders above anything else you've posted.
a few interesting choices (to me at least) in that they kept the KH front discs and there's no subframe connectors. but some very nice touches of keeping the dash stock (with a factory tach!) and not "resto-modding" the interior. it's very tidy all around.
all in all, i'd consider this to be head and shoulders above anything else you've posted.
moosestang
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Wow! I was told the owner runs a paint and body shop too! Thanks for doing that.
moosestang
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yeah, it's nice and they have nice large pics of just about everything. I bet the reserve is pretty high.
I bought a 1969 Dart GT over the internet and even worse EBay out of Florida! It was mechanically very rough but all in all I’m very lucky that I bought it when I did 6 years ago for under $12000! I’ve put a lot of money in it but that’s what we do
scrowe
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Brings back memories of when I nearly purchased a Duster based on pics posted online. Wired the seller 11k and had the balance in cash burning a hole in my pocket. Suspicions were aroused when i looked closely at one of the pics of the passenger side door. Asked the seller if any body work had been done as he claimed in the posting ‘rust free’. A couple of days later a new pic was sent to me where he had the area touched up by a local shop. When I arrived to pick up the car, i could tell from 30’ this was not going to end well. Car was Swiss cheese. We took a spin in it and he asked if I was going to load it up, I told him no and that I’d like my money back. Went to the local bank, which was closed, and had to wait until the following week for him to return mos of what I had paid. End of the day I agreed to pay him 400 for the touch up work in return for the 10.6k. Fortunately he agreed, albeit reluctantly. I overcame the $400 rather easily, but the dent to my pride/ego took a while. A mistake that I will not repeat
Tiki bar jim
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When I bought my wagon I sent a
Tiki bar jim
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computer glitch, qualified appraiser to look at my wagon, gave me a 3 page report on condition & estimated value, best $240 I ever spent.
Tiki bar jim
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I got this in '17 off Craigslist for 10k. Paint & interior done, a few small things done to it be me. Be patient.
I bought mine without seeing it in person.. the pics looked amazing.... they were very strategic.. I paid double what i should have and have done 10x the work i expected... I always had a rule to never do that and i did....
Take the offer to have someone knowledgable inspect it. After six hard years of replacing pretty much every major piece of sheetmetal on my Dart, I probably exhibit the worse case scenario of “sight unseen.” Pictures just can’t tell the whole story. A couple of years ago I flew to the East coast with cashier’s check in hand to buy a well-known Dart Charger. The car was depicted as having no rust. Within two minutes of looking at the car in person I could tell it had significant rust issues, even though they might not be obvious to most people. The problem with these old cars, is, my opinion, that there is no such thing as “rust free.” It’s there, you just can’t see it. My donor car was an Arizona car its’ entire life, but it still had corrosion in the roof and quarters due to condensation and moisture absorption from accumulated dirt. Also, I discovered old crash damage in the rear that would have affected the alignment of the trunk. It’s very easy to end up having to repair the used parts you bought to repair existing parts. You can’t easily look under headliners, or up inside cowl vents, A pillars and sail panels, not to mention rocker panels. Just because the rocker panels are good is no guaranteed of no corrosion either. My car was a total rust bucket, but the rocker panels are very good. Why? I think it’s because the drain holes never clogged. It was from Washington state, and almost all the rust I found was probably from condensation, and sitting with an open window in a high-rainfall and humidity state. Even the drip rails were rusted through under the factory sealer. In my opinion, unless you have an original car that has been intentionally stored in a low humidity environment, you probably have some corrosion. Later model cars have better corrosion protection and might not be as much at risk, but anything from the ‘60’s and ‘70’s will have some rust somewhere that will probably need attention.
BillGrissom
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Unlikely that car spent its life in SoCal or NV. Might get some rust in the Sierra Nevada, though they don't salt the roads there. In L.A., 1960's cars usually don't even have a spot of rust on the rear bumper brackets even parked outside. You still see 1970's Jap mini-trucks on the road, which rusted away in the east. My guess is that car spent time in the east before coming to NV. The fender tag will tell where it was built. There was an assembly plant in L.A. in the 1960's.
I have used a third party called Lemon Squad- Pre-Purchase Car Inspection | Vehicle Inspection to go and inspect the car I was thinking about buying. They did a great inspection with tons of pics and they also were able to use a device to inspect how much body filler or how thick the paint was. Best $275 I ever spent. Did not purchase the car after the inspection. Saved me lots of money...
I've bought a couple, did alright but came real
Neither of mine were any kind of flashy things to write home about.
An 83 d250 via eBay that was in Wisconsin of all places
Just 4 months ago a Durango in st Louis
About 15 years ago my son and I drove to Vegas and brought home a 76 Aspen for me (real clean but wound up selling it to pay for the trip out there) and my son bought a ramcharger from the same guy, that he still has
Neither of mine were any kind of flashy things to write home about.
An 83 d250 via eBay that was in Wisconsin of all places
Just 4 months ago a Durango in st Louis
About 15 years ago my son and I drove to Vegas and brought home a 76 Aspen for me (real clean but wound up selling it to pay for the trip out there) and my son bought a ramcharger from the same guy, that he still has
TOS67gtconv
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I bought my 1967 Dodge Dart convertible off of ebay sight unseen and had it shipped north to PA from North Carolina. Ebay has a buyers insurance that covers the representation of the car, the transaction, and insures the car during shipping. The car is great and was described accurately. The shipping didn't quite go as described but the car arrived it just took additional days. I did look at 2 other cars cross country and used a service from ebay to look at the car that took tons of pictures, test drove the car and gave a thorough description for a fee of close to $100. I did not buy 2 of those cars because of the reports. On one sale the owner wanted to do a different cheaper price an not use ebay and I refused as well.
j par
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The profound thankfulness must have been in a personal message. I just didn't see it here on the board...
66jim
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Fresh paint...Hum wonder how it will look a year or so.
Like anything else it is a 50/50 chance. Best is you can look the cars over and decide if you want to bid or not.
Many times the sellers bring ringers to drive the price up. I must say I have seen cars sold very reasonable.
Last is you have to pay a buyer's fee of 10% of the winning bid.
I remember that ! You got them from Craig. I don't remember why we didn't get a chance to meet up.
I don't either, I think I called you with a problem with the ramcharger, and picked your brain, we ended up replacing the fuel pump in a truck stop parking lot and when we got home I discovered a pinched return line, (89, TBI so we had to drop the tank in the parking lot) line got pinched between tank and frame.
7 mpg all the way home. We drove out in a wrangler, my son followed me home in it and had to stay way back because it was running so rich because of that pinched line that we didn't know was pinched til we were home... I drove the ramcharger and tow dolleyed the Aspen behind it
7 mpg all the way home. We drove out in a wrangler, my son followed me home in it and had to stay way back because it was running so rich because of that pinched line that we didn't know was pinched til we were home... I drove the ramcharger and tow dolleyed the Aspen behind it
340sFastback
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Most likely all the bondo will bubble up start falling out and car will have to come apart to sand all the paint off. Back to square one to fix it correctly. And if next buyer can't do all work themselves basically screwed.
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