Well, I went and looked at the car today....had th cash in hand , a trailer reserved and a notary lined up. All I neded was the car .
...but it can never be that simple, can it?
It appears that the car was once hit (hard) on the right side.....From the outside it isnt too obvious at first.....but when you open the trunk you see daylight....the right trunk extention was apparantly crumpled up like tissue at one point and straightened back out.....resulting in numerous little tears and holes. It is seperated in aspot or two from the rest of the trunk floor....and the front right corner of the trunk pan is pushed up and there is a hole.....also a hole doen inside the fender on the right side.....looks like it was hit and the entire right rear side panel was replaced...the concerns I had about the right sidenear the door became clear then.....that angle is not a camera trick but an actual angle down to the rocker, where they mated the repair panel to the rest of the car. Some bondo.
The right door has been replaced (different color door jamb).
SOme minor rot around where the rear upper quarter mates with the trunk jamb....likely from where the repair was tied in.
The front fender looks like it may have been tweaked too, but not much bondo from what I can tell.
The left side lower rear quarter panels are full of bondo.....the front is bubbling pretty good and the rear is jut really wavey (as was pointed out in the graphics).
The roof paint has numerous fish-eyes and would need repainted. The rest of the car paint is thin kand glossy, but with many waves/bumps....like someone ALMOST sanded enough but not really.
Inside, the dash pad is pretty crackes and the rally dash has some small cracks in it....some sheet metal screws holding stuff in place....
i wont list all of the issues.....I suppose you have to expect some issues with a car that is selling for $5k...but I think this car is more like a $3k car, as has been suggested.
It IS a 340 car...washer on the k member, it has the clutch pedal still.......
The 318 in it is a later model (74ish he thinks) and seems to satrt ok and doesnt smoke.....idles ok....no exhaust past the headers.
Iam still considering this car, but would offer much less than $5k......I was told that someone else looked at it this past friday and someone else is supposed to see it tommorrow..he did tell me the price "very flexible, within reason".....kind of adual meaning phrase there I think.
On the way home I happened across a 66 Fury 3 that has was redone with a smallblock....original interior...was a AC, automatic car but now has a 4 speed and no air.....body is real nice...........asking $8000.....It basically made me realized how far off this red car was from what I am looking for....
So, thesearch goes on....LOL
I will psot pictures of the trunk damage and the fury if anyone is interested.
