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Craig,
Yeah... unfortunately this is the car that I've been working on for so long. 3.5 years and almost $20,000. To be perfectly honest, I'd never intended to get rid of the car, but it's finally gotten to the point where enough is enough. The specific reason I'm parting out the car is that the left rear tire blew on the interstate going 65-70 The car did a 540 and scraped (as opposed to hit) a sidewall. There was surprisingly little damage done to the car, just the left rear bumper, tail light, and some of the fender. The wheel was destroyed though, and the trim strip is gone. That was just bad luck, the tires weren't in bad shape, I wasn't going that fast... just bad luck.
My mechanic kind of pulled me aside and said he wasn't going to let me spend any more money on the car and I really had to agree with him, it's just getting ridiculous. I can't justify spending anymore money on a car that is no longer any fun to drive or own at all, and most importantly the car isn't reliable at all. In over three years it's only driven maybe 2,500 miles. Granted, with my luck I could sell it and someone would make it a daily driver for a couple hundred bucks.
The problem is the $20,000 I've spent on the car. I really need to get some of it back, and parting it out seems to be the best way to do that. I mean, unless I really wanted to screw someone I couldn't sell the car whole for very much. I don't know, maybe I'm being greedy, but I would like to try to get some amount f money back out of the car. I haven't really started parting it out yet, I'm trying to get an idea of how much I may end up getting and if people actually want the parts etc...
Overall the car is in pretty good shape though. There is surprisingly little rust on the car. Most of it is in the rear tail light housings. The floor pans were replaced 1.5 years ago. The paint is okay, but there are lots of primer spots. The interior is in great shape. All the body panels are in great shape. except for the paint of course.
The engine is the only really great point of the car. It runs and runs well, although I know green hates the carbs that are on it (44 webers). Through all of the car's downtime there has at east never been a point where the engine was te cause of it all. Lol, there is no way I would sell the engine for less than $1,000. I actually asked Harry Pellow about it, and he said about $3k sounded right.
Anyway, I don't know... I think I have to get rid of this car otherwise I don't know what I'll end up putting in the car.
Andrew
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