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My dad, who was kind of a car guy a long time ago, but has been too busy the last couple of decades, now has time on his hands. He has a friend who has a '75 RR Silver Shadow that he is interested in buying to fix up, something he and I would work on together.

These things obviously don't have huge value. He's looking at $5,000 or so.

I don't know much about the car yet, other than it may have been driven very little, or none, in the past 10 years.

My initial reaction is a car like that could be a bad deal even if it were FREE. My gut says that if it is true the car has not been started or driven, to just pass on it. I could see a ton of headache, and $30,000 later ending up with a $15,000 car that has little to no cool factor.

What's the general price range for these, the biggest things to look out for, and the very "low" price value for a complete, non-running (I'll assume non-running) '75? Is $5,000 low enough that we could get out relatively unscathed if we can't get it running fairly quickly and want to throw in the towel?

Also, any good websites?