what is it worth....early A wagons

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At the airport, we had a RH drive snow blower & two center drive firetrucks, they drive just fine here in the US. ;-)
 
Alaskan_TA said:
At the airport, we had a RH drive snow blower & two center drive firetrucks, they drive just fine here in the US. ;-)
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lot of diff. driving at hi way speed and trying to pass here in the U.S. !
 
famous bob said:
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lot of diff. driving at hi way speed and trying to pass here in the U.S. !
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Just a matter of getting used to it.

Jeep offers right hand drive for mail delivery. My mail deliverer uses hers as a daily. I see her often doing 60 or better when she's not stopping at every mailbox.
 
ramenth said:
Just a matter of getting used to it.
Jeep offers right hand drive for mail delivery. My mail deliverer uses hers as a daily. I see her often doing 60 or better when she's not stopping at every mailbox.
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It's not so much the speed that may be the problem.
Picture yourself driving from the passenger side when you want to pull out to the left to pass a big rig on a two-lane road.
It's no longer an issue of pull out just a bit to see if traffic's coming. You'll have to have over half of your right-hand-drive car over in the opposing traffic lane before you'll be able to see what's about to run head-on into you.
I've got a Mopar buddy that lives in Oz and he's told me that this is a BIG problem when driving our left-hand-drive classic Mopars down under.

 
ocdart said:
It's not so much the speed that may be the problem.
Picture yourself driving from the passenger side when you want to pull out to the left to pass a big rig on a two-lane road.
It's no longer an issue of pull out just a bit to see if traffic's coming. You'll have to have over half of your right-hand-drive car over in the opposing traffic lane before you'll be able to see what's about to run head-on into you.
I've got a Mopar buddy that lives in Oz and he's told me that this is a BIG problem when driving our left-hand-drive classic Mopars down under.
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Just as driving with anything else, allow yourself the distance to see around.
Tailgating to where you can't have a full view around the offending slower driver and accelerating when you're in the other lane is a piss poor way to pass.

Stay far enough back, pick your break, and accelerate in your lane so you can get around and get back in your lane as quickly as possible.

So, you might have to stay a little further back, but if you're sticking your head out to see around him to begin with, you're already doing it wrong.
 
You do have to know to trust your mirrors & have them adjusted properly.

Where the driver sits is not important if they have decent skills.
 
Without the drivetrain I would start at $2000... car looks kool and in decent shape for a project. You don't see these anywhere up here
 
A car like that requires the right person. Not a high demand car.
Get lucky and you sell fast for decent coin. Otherwise it sits.
It needs to be properly advertised to sell.
My opinion as a rolling project $800.00 to $1,000.00
 
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ocdart said:
It's not so much the speed that may be the problem.
Picture yourself driving from the passenger side when you want to pull out to the left to pass a big rig on a two-lane road.
It's no longer an issue of pull out just a bit to see if traffic's coming. You'll have to have over half of your right-hand-drive car over in the opposing traffic lane before you'll be able to see what's about to run head-on into you.
I've got a Mopar buddy that lives in Oz and he's told me that this is a BIG problem when driving our left-hand-drive classic Mopars down under.
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THAT`S WHAT I`M TALKIN ABOUT !
 
ramenth said:
Just as driving with anything else, allow yourself the distance to see around.
Tailgating to where you can't have a full view around the offending slower driver and accelerating when you're in the other lane is a piss poor way to pass.

Stay far enough back, pick your break, and accelerate in your lane so you can get around and get back in your lane as quickly as possible.

So, you might have to stay a little further back, but if you're sticking your head out to see around him to begin with, you're already doing it wrong.
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Stay farther back around here and there will always be some a-- pulling in front of u putting on their barakes.
 
Old man ray said:
A car like that requires the right person. Not a high demand car.
Get lucky and you sell fast for decent coin. Otherwise it sits.
It needs to be properly advertised to sell.
My opinion as a rolling project $800.00 to $1,000.00
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problem is to appraise anything, you gotta have comparable sales data. lets face it, it is really hard to know what people are paying for any given car, even common ones like say dusters. we see idiot price on CL, we see stupid prices on feebay, and even feebay auctions where a car even never gets a decent bid ( for many reasons)..and what a duster will bring in N h won't be the same it brings is Ks.
project cars would no doubt sell better if people were willing to pay more for a finished ( to what degree of resto??) car.?? lets face it, A bodies were the low cost car when new and still remain that way today in general. OK so M code cudas not in that count!

the projects that bring the least are non drivers, and cars that are missing hard to find parts, and the ones where after market / used parts are so hard to find. wagon taillites? I have seen many on feebay cheap because not enough people looking for them, rare? yes, rare and value not always associated.
I think this wagon would be a great project for the right person, and I peg it at around $1500, IF that person has access to parts. like anything, worth whatever a buyer and seller will both agree upon.
 
.. Then you have cars that "look good" but need everything underneath, you have cars that are in primer and everything underneath has been done. usually "Looks good" sells, its the scheme behind shady used car lots.
 
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