Re: [FWDLK] 300K factory 4 speed

In a message dated 7/7/2011 5:40:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, AdamL57@xxxxxxx writes:

Ebay scares me with cars, I've listed an '87 GLHS on there and a '71 Road Runner, both sold (the RR twice) and the buyers back out literally within 5 minutes of the auctions ending, when it comes to cars people seem to think ebay is a video game, "Look, I won!"

Adam

In a message dated 7/7/2011 1:56:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Or, you could Evilpay it with your investment amount as its opening bid
with no other Reserve amount on it.

No guarantees in life, or love.

Neil Vedder

Bill K. wrote:
> Good steering wheel in it, they're worth a few hundred bucks all by
> themselves. Even a crappy one is worth $100 or so as a core. It
> should have that kind of square one in it.
>
> Someone on the HAMB just got another one like it that's nice, it's a
> driver, might be worth a search there and see if he needs anything.
> In the same thread another guy talks about one he had and parted out
> and he sold a lot out of it.
>
> These are not that popular, unfortunately. It's a good car to part
> out, you'd make your money back, especially if it's a bucket seat car
> - the column, the shifter and linkage, the clutch linkage and pedals,
> that stuff is extremely scarce. The 300 badges and specific trim
> would be hard to find too. But as bad as you say it is, it's not
> economically viable to restore it. Realistically on the open market a
> really, really nice one might bring $20K at auction.
>
> However, sell the motor and trans to the redneck yourself, spend a
> couple days picking the best parts off it, and you should still be
> able to do $300 or $400 out of the carcass and come out ahead - and
> the guys who do have manual trans 300s will thank you for it. (might
> offer them the trans and so forth first, too).
>
> Or, you could buy it, stash it, and wait for a nice 63-64 Chrysler to
> turn up cheap and put all the goodies into that car. It shouldn't be
> too hard, hell I saw a 4-door '64 on the road apparently as a winter
> rat in Herkimer last year, it was January and it was in the Wal-mart
> parking lot....
>
>
>
> Bill K.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- >
>> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:52:46 -0400
>> From: Adam Lindenbaum <AdamL57@xxxxxxx>
>> Subject: 300K factory 4 speed
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>> I just came across an extremely rotted but complete '64 300K factory 4
>> speed one owner car. It's a single 4 bbl, manual window, seats, non
>> a/c car.
>> Any chrome trim is pitted badly and some of the stainless is bent.
>> From what
>> I've found here on the internet there were 82 4 speed cars made and 15
>> accounted for, I have no real interest in trying to restore it
>> myself but it's
>> other option is a local "red-neck" wants to buy it and yank the
>> engine/trans and scrap the rest (scrap is up to $11.00 per hundred
>> pounds, good beer
>> money). Is this car worth $1,500? I can't stand to see it go the
>> crusher as
>> rare as it is but I can't invest money in it to have it lay around
>> here and
>> rot away.It would need a non-letter series car as a body donor or at
>> least
>> a sheet metal donor. The guy has the new car paperwork and all from the
>> dealer, it's a shame, he parked it in '73 and let it just rot away.
>> Adam Lindenbaum
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:12:33 -0400
>> From: Adam Lindenbaum <AdamL57@xxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: 300K factory 4 speed
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>>
>> Let me rephrase that, if I buy it, pay to have a non-rolling car flat
>> bedded here, ect., have about $1700-$1800 invested, will I be able to
>> get my
>> money out of it without having to sit on it for 2 or 3 years, I'd
>> need it gone
>> quickly, I'm not looking to get rich, just save an extremely rare car
>> from
>> the crusher.
>> Adam Lindenbaum
>>
>> In a message dated 7/6/2011 8:53:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> AdamL57@xxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> I just came across an extremely rotted but complete '64 300K factory 4
>> speed one owner car. It's a single 4 bbl, manual window, seats, non
>> a/c car.
>> Any chrome trim is pitted badly and some of the stainless is bent.
>> From what
>> I've found here on the internet there were 82 4 speed cars made and 15
>> accounted for, I have no real interest in trying to restore it myself
>> but it's
>> other option is a local "red-neck" wants to buy it and yank the
>> engine/trans and scrap the rest (scrap is up to $11.00 per hundred
>> pounds, good beer
>> money). Is this car worth $1,500? I can't stand to see it go the
>> crusher as
>> rare as it is but I can't invest money in it to have it lay around
>> here and
>> rot away.It would need a non-letter series car as a body donor or at
>> least
>> a sheet metal donor. The guy has the new car paperwork and all from the
>> dealer, it's a shame, he parked it in '73 and let it just rot away.
>> Adam Lindenbaum
>>
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