Look What Followed Me Home!

Fuelie74

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Found a 73 for sale yesterday and I just couldn't leave it sit. The car has a rebuilt title and no engine. The Frame is screwed but, I mostly wanted for the from clip. Paint is flaking off but all of the fiberglass short of the hood is in very good shape.
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Interior is fair at best. The gauges are in nice condition. Non power windows, non tilt column.
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Radiator support in shot. Rusted out on the bottom then someone hacked it apart and welded it back together to try and make the body line back up. Looks like a fairly new radiator though.
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The fame had some nasty repairs around the cross member and the main reason the guy sold the car.
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This is what I found when looking the car over though. Its actually buckled on the right rail just below the firewall.
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I don't think I did to bad on it. Paid $1000 for it. It came with a 400 trans, 2 drive shafts and yokes. No engine. The front nose is glass instead of urethane and it is the PM panels with bonding strips not hand laid glass. So no once I get the clip pulled for my car I will have to decide weather or not to part it out or drag another parts car home for this one. So far what I have been able to see the birdcage looks to be in very good condition. I will inspect it further with a bore scope latter.
 
That's a good score for $1000. Even better if the birdcage is solid.

I never find any deals like that. Everybody thinks any old car is worth a fortune.
 
Well it is fairly rare for me to find deals like this and even more rare that I have the money when I find them. Thank you craigslist!
 
Holy ugly welds batman, good thing you brought it home to nurse it back to health :)
 
No you don't want this paint job. The paint is flaking off in sheets.

Hopefully I will be able to find a deal on another parts car with a good frame. Not really getting to excited about it for now. I will rob the front clip and a few other parts for my 74, sell off some parts to help recoupe the cost of the car and put it in the corner till I can find a deal on the parts I need.

The future plans for it is to put my old front clip with fixed headlights. I am thinking something that looked off the road coarse in the 70's yet modern under the hood to drive on a daily basis in the summer.
 
No you don't want this paint job. The paint is flaking off in sheets.

Hopefully I will be able to find a deal on another parts car with a good frame. Not really getting to excited about it for now. I will rob the front clip and a few other parts for my 74, sell off some parts to help recoupe the cost of the car and put it in the corner till I can find a deal on the parts I need.

The future plans for it is to put my old front clip with fixed headlights. I am thinking something that looked off the road coarse in the 70's yet modern under the hood to drive on a daily basis in the summer.

That is about all I did, in reality...update cheep as possible to C4 type operation....make the car fit ME better....keep the good aspects of C4 leaving the worse aspects behind...

:nuts:
 

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