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Need a favor: Anyone in LA that can check out a car for me?
I found a 356 online that I'm interested in. Even though I'm a novice, I can spot some things wrong with it, but the price isn't too bad so I'm willing trade super-anal-correctness for a break on the price.
What I would like is to find someone who can schlep over and do a physical recon to look for something that might be misconstrued - or just missed - in the pictures. I can compensate you for your efforts - PM me if interested. Thanks!
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12-13-2016, 03:28 PM
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12-13-2016, 04:04 PM
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The closest freeway intersection I can see from google maps is 10 / 710
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12-13-2016, 04:27 PM
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That's the heart of East LA.
 That's Lowrider country.
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12-13-2016, 05:07 PM
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Is this the one?
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12-13-2016, 05:08 PM
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12-13-2016, 05:38 PM
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I can go out there but I know nothing about 356s. Is this Bev. Hills car club? I also know someone who's been thinking about selling one for a long time but I have no knowledge what it actually is. I know its coupe. I think he wants 85 or 90k for it.
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12-13-2016, 06:44 PM
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So is East LA the sort of place you need to bring a spoon?
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Oh, its BHCC. They must have a warehouse out there. I considered buying a donor car from them when I started my backdate project. They sell a lot of cars that need restoration.
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Go there before Noon, the boyz are still asleep.
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I get Alex Manos email spam a few times per week......I'd only buy from him after a personal inspection AND a PPI.
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Just FYI BHCC is known for selling less than stellar project cars.
I have had a couple clients look at stuff there and even knowing it was going to be a "project" they walked... Another client wanted to have a local wrench go out and look at a '72 Targa there last year. When wrench (a fellow Pelican with a shop in that area) heard it was at BHCC he said "No Thanks, don't really need to see it"... YMMV, but if price seems "good" might want to keep searching. (I am priming the nose of a 1960 B as I type this, and have a '64 C here for another client I am assembling) Just my $.02. Cooper |
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12-13-2016, 07:13 PM
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If its BHCC, then its safe. No issue there.
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12-13-2016, 07:16 PM
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I can help, Thom. Coincidentally, I just had dinner w some friends that wanted to go there tomorrow to look at some cars. I kind of talked them out of it when I figured out that it was BHCC.
There is nothing dangerous about going there, at least not neighborhood-wise. Once you get inside the place, it gets a little sketchy. He has an absolute schitload of cars, probably 50 air cooled 911s. If he's ever bought a good car, it was probably by mistake. It's really a junkyard. It's like going to the pound and adopting a dog w/ terminal cancer who has had his legs cut off, but hey, it's still a German Shepard!! It's still a Porsche!!  I think you have my number, otherwise I'll text you in am.
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Didn't Wheeler Dealers buy an MGA from that chump?
I was on their site yesterday, wow, they sure have some 'projects'.
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