1973 3.0 CS in Georgia - NO RESERVE

The fact that the front strut top spacers were not removed for painting (it takes literally 5 minutes) is not a good sign regarding the re-spray.

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James
 
i have seen the car in person ... if anybody is interested in the info, drop me a PM and we can talk about it. its a car that needs everything, looks relatively solid ... but the floors and the inner fenders have been replaced and not perfectly. not going to do a hatchet job on the car as it is accurately advertised by Nick + Chris. Nick has a beautiful fjord coupe ... and they are both stand-up guys
 
I will admit to having being interested in this car for the right price. Thank-you to Scott for sharing his observations and to the other commentary on this one. Indeed this is a great place to learn and keep on learning! The price has now broken the 20k barrier and I think poses the question as to how high it will go. For a non-running car that has had work done on the front but still has rust issues, I am surprised as to who is willing to part with as much money! Maybe a new bubble is forming for the E9 market or maybe this is now the new norm...
 
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I will admit to having being interested in this car for the right price. Thank-you to Scott for sharing his observations and to the other commentary on this one. Indeed this is a great place to learn and keep on learning! The price has now broken the 20k barrier and I think poses the question as to how high it will go. For a non-running car that has had work done on the front but still has rust issues, I am surprised as to who is willing to part with as much money! Maybe a new bubble is forming for the E9 market or maybe this is now the new norm...
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Honestly there seems to be a project car bubble. The $30K drivers seem to be holding steady but the cars that used to be sub $10K are pulling crazy auction numbers.
 
i will tell you that i would buy this car way before i would buy most of the garbage that we have seen from the goog or BHCC ... but as all of you know, that isn't saying much. stay tuned for the rest of the story.

as i have said before, it is accurately presented by the seller. a month ago (or so) Coupeking sold a wonderful project car for less than 32k ... that had a reasonable interior, it ran, had redone brakes and other things to make it a safe car. this is NOT in that league. there is also a 4 letter word, that isn't rust, that our friend Peter Coomaraswamy in Austin dealt with in reclaiming the polaris 2800cs ... and this car has plenty of it. there isn't a lot of history on this car ... this car does not have a numbers matching engine and its not a 3.5L. the paint is rough and there is some rust present lurking ... not major structural rust that i could see, just some that could drive the cost of paint + body up a bit.

i have a stack of bills to bet that Motorcar Studio is shocked at the value this has reached. this car needs everything ... paint + body will be 20+k, all of the metal needs to be refinished. it needs ALL new rubber. the interior needs to be redone 5k to 10k ... you will have to disassemble and reassemble the car ... and then there are the mechanicals. my guess is 35k to 45k is needed to make it a presentable coupe ... and that is with a lot of self performing labor ... combined with 2o+k on the purchase ... you are going to be at a minimum of 55k to 65k ... probably a lot more.

so if this car sells for 20k to 25k ... what does this do to the value of the average coupe owned by our forum members? the law of averages would tell you that a rising tide floats all boats. i'm not so sure that it really is going to have that much impact. the pool of people wanting to spend 20k to 30k on a car is a lot larger than people wanting to spend 45k to 60k on one. the people wanting to spend more than 50k want a very nice car ... i hope i am wrong
 
rsporsche said:
there is also a 4 letter word, that isn't rust, that our friend Peter Coomaraswamy in Austin dealt with in reclaiming the polaris 2800cs ... and this car has plenty of it.
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Im generally terrible at crossword puzzles but I think I understand what you are layin' down.
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I think that photo shows the sellers are being honest by not hiding one of the drawbacks of this car. They could have done a quick cleaning of the arm rests, but instead left them as is as an indicator of what lurks in this car. The buyer will need something like the MaxBlaster and a lot of elbow grease.
 
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yes Mark, you got it in one. the problem with this is that as Peter can tell you, its not just a surface thing ... it gets into the padding of all of the upholstery. you can clean it off of the surface, but you have some serious taking things apart ... and the seats are really fun to do. i didn't go crawling around inside the car too much because i am a bit allergic to mold and its intoxicating aroma.
 
I'm sorry but what am I missing here? Hacked in floor pan and the engine bay is awful. At 12k+ ok but 20 seems very high to me but maybe e9's have jumped that much?
 
Yes, I think it's high too. The last $7K of bidding has been between only two bidders, one with a feedback of only 2. The other has only 150. Both are probably is unaware of some of the E9 issues to be wary of. Or they see the reasonably straight body lines and are looking for a flip. Who knows? It may get reposted when the winning buyer fails to consummate the deal.
 
Another one with that rare "factory stick" under the hood...

Love the color and a non sunroof, but well past what I would pay for it...
 
CadillacGreen said:
Another one with that rare "factory stick" under the hood...

Love the color and a non sunroof, but well past what I would pay for it...
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I attribute this to the front end work that was done. The front torsion spring bits are visible in the trunk. Likely never reinstalled or they couldn't figure it out.
 
floridabmx said:
Great car. I figured it would sell around 20k.
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you obviously haven't seen the car in person. 10k to 12k - maybe ... 20k is foolish. the most usable parts that i saw were the rear taillights, if you can polish the metal and get the minor pitting out and the dash. the rest of the metal will take several thousand bucks to polish or chrome. then there is ALL of the rubber that has to be replaced - another couple of k's.

here is a close up of the hood. then look at the passenger A pillar and the rust caused from the tear in the windshield gasket above. then the window trim pitting ... then the mold on the top of the door panel.

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then you should bid on it and buy it, it might be perfect for you - crusty ...

the floor pans and the fenders weren't replaced due to surface rust. i couldn't see either side of the firewall (not enough light).
... but you might should see the inner fender installation, doesn't look like any inner fender that i have seen on a coupe ... they look like various pieces cobbled together. you should also look at the gaps around the doors - they vary from less than 1/8" to 3/8". the doors tend to have a bow in them (front to back) ... and the alignment of the belt trim (looking down the car) indicates that there is some significant body work ahead.
 
it could very well be getting shill bidded but i expected it to near around 20k given coupekings ran up to 32. Which was also worth every dollar in my opinion as i value original cars over restored personally.
 
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