Looking for help on buying a Monte Carlo 78

[Longroof79]

If you can post more pics of the car, and areas where you have concerns, we can certainly lend our support and feedback.
I'm guessing that you still have to get back to the seller regarding your intentions about the car.

 

[WBLSS]

Here are a few pics I took

 

[406 Monte]

So how'd the rear frame look?

 

[WBLSS]

So how'd the rear frame look?

Yeah it looked good as far as I could tell. Good thing he will hold it until I say yes or no, maybe I can get him down a bit on the price.

 

[Matthew Goeke]

if he says he dosnt know if it runs, 100% it wont run but these motors are so easy to work on either way it would be good

 

[Matthew Goeke]

I am in MN. He is asking 1000 for it, he is not sure when it was last ran he thinks 10 years maybe, just got it from his aunt that had just passed away. I don't know to much on fixing car but I can do small things, just don't want to get more then I can handle or pay to have fixed.

also ive never worked on a car a day in my life when i started, i have a 78 regal and when i started it hadnt ran in 25 years. one thing to look for is brake line rust. if they are rusted dont be afraid to buy it, just get a good brake flaring tool DONT GO CHEAP ON TOOLS thats one thing i learned after working on my cars is cheap tools never preform.

 

[Matthew Goeke]

ask him for the vin so we can do a lookup, with the vin we can tell what engine, where it was made, what year, and what carb

 

[WBLSS]

The car just got passed down to him in the past month or so tabs are from 06 so that's probably a good area to say when it was last ran, needs a new coolant reservoir a few new lines. Does anyone know of a online site that I can look up prices and find parts?

 

[Matthew Goeke]

Sounds similiar to how i got mine however look at everything bring up any concerns and haggle but dont open with "whats your bottom dollar" all that does is piss off the seller

YES DUDE! ive had people ask what my bottom dollar is when i said the price was firm, all i did was tell them 500 over what i put because they wanted to be a cheapass

 

[WBLSS]

ask him for the vin so we can do a lookup, with the vin we can tell what engine, where it was made, what year, and what carb

I took a pic of it but now that I look I can't make out all the numbers and looked at the door it said 1/79 didn't take a pic of that.