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!

Were in LA? It makes a big difference.

90063 ZIP code

The closest freeway intersection I can see from google maps is 10 / 710

That's the heart of East LA. :eek: That's Lowrider country.



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Is this the one?

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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.

Area's a little rough, that's for sure.

From the pic, Beverly Hills Car Club would be my guess too. Just Googled it and it is located in East L.A., so that's probably it. Don't know anything about them.

So is East LA the sort of place you need to bring a spoon?

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.

If you're going to carry cash it is. Some areas are very dangerous.

Go there before Noon, the boyz are still asleep.

I get Alex Manos email spam a few times per week......I'd only buy from him after a personal inspection AND a PPI.

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

Nooo. Its Ok there.

Who would own a car like that in that hood, but Bev. Car Club is right near the 710 and the 10. I drive by it all the time when traffic get too heavy and get off and take streets to my folk's.

If its BHCC, then its safe. No issue there.

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.

Didn't Wheeler Dealers buy an MGA from that chump?

I was on their site yesterday, wow, they sure have some 'projects'.

Yes, some of them are "interesting" to be sure.

That white car looks way too shiny for you to be buying.

Didn't you just get that '52 Beetle?

I've had it for about 10 years now; I had the '56 Ghia for a little longer than that.

Only after 3 pm.

Serial, only about one murder per month on average in that area, but you could walk in in an hour.
Boyle heights is right next to it, 13 murders ytd same as east LA.

Pretty darn safe compared to cheecago.



http://homicide.latimes.com/neighborhood/east-los-angeles

My brother and I visited there a couple of years ago.
The thing that stood out to me the most was the 911/12 (I forget which it was) Targa they had brought in on a flat bed. It was sooooo rusty I couldn't see how they possibly could have gotten it onto the flat bed without it coming apart.
We wondered around and ended up in an area where we shouldn't have been. There was a guy 'restoring' one of the cars, shooting the wheel wells with new shiny black undercoating.
The warehouse we were taken to to look at the car my brother was interested in was really something. ALL kinds of cars, most not in the best of shape.

I considered one from BHCC when I started my long-hood hot rod project. The price seemed too good to be true. The car was advertised as "minor rust". In my opinion it was a rust bucket basket case. When I think of "minor rust", I imagine some bubbling at the bottom of the doors and maybe in need of floor pans. It was WAY beyond that.

In his defense, rust measurement seems to be very subjective. A resto-body guy like John Esposito might have agreed it was minor rust, but John can take a total rust bucket and in a few months enter it in the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. When quarters, floor, and metal around windows needs to be cut and and replaced, I call that major rust.

Pretty scary when you have to register "homicide" as a DNS CNAME!

Interesting cars out of that place for sure. I looked in there once there were a bunch of air cool 911s sitting under that metal roof.

That area isn't bad at all. I would go there at night without any problem. It is the starting point of the division from the normal neighborhood to "The Hood" Go south from there and it gets a little scary at night. During daytime, there's nothing to worry about.