He said it runs drives and stops fine, iffered me a test drive. I feel like he is hiding something too lol
Should i buy it?
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Make sure all the missing snake blinder trim is there, hard to find. I actually picked some with added screws in the front. Yeah, why is the shroud missing, all A/C cars came with them. I think that car was a Gbody forum member.
I paid $3,600.00 for my rust free Elco from California w/77,000 3 years ago .It didn’t look as nice, the interior was AGED and almost everything was original. If your looking to use it AS IS, test drive atleast 20 miles to get all systems hot and see how it functions. It’s your hard earned money. All the negative points already pointed out are small red flags. These cars are money pits and time stealers, but thats the insanity of Gbody people.
Here's my take:
1) depending where you live certain things are harder to find than others - southern cars dried out runber/plastic/interior, northern cars rust.
2) the ask is 3500. Maybe he takes 3. Either way, these days 3500 doesn't buy you much. You could get a 240k mile honda for the same price, ad both will keep breaking due to age
3) see above. The newest of these cars are pushing 32 years old. They will break, stuff will wear out, replacement bits will be a pita to find.
Depending on your budget, for insurance and future proposed it's always better to start with a special trim level model. Herte that means bumping it up into the 8k range for a similar 443 if you're going to invest much in it.
If you just think the cutlass looks cool, want something to tinker with on the weekend and putt around in, maybe this is for you.
1) depending where you live certain things are harder to find than others - southern cars dried out runber/plastic/interior, northern cars rust.
2) the ask is 3500. Maybe he takes 3. Either way, these days 3500 doesn't buy you much. You could get a 240k mile honda for the same price, ad both will keep breaking due to age
3) see above. The newest of these cars are pushing 32 years old. They will break, stuff will wear out, replacement bits will be a pita to find.
Depending on your budget, for insurance and future proposed it's always better to start with a special trim level model. Herte that means bumping it up into the 8k range for a similar 443 if you're going to invest much in it.
If you just think the cutlass looks cool, want something to tinker with on the weekend and putt around in, maybe this is for you.
While I love the euro noses, parts for those are the hardest to find. One rock off a truck will cause madness.
Arguments about what got bought for how much 15 years ago are pointless. 15 years ago, I could go to pull a part any weekend and find a dozen G bodies. Been 2 there in the last year
Deal killer for me would be the top....risky gamble on sheetmetal condition and not great looking to my eye, but some people love them.
Biggest thing I have noticed is MANY people today do not have the titles to stuff they're trying to sell, or it's from the guy that the guy they got it from got it from and nobody ever bothered to do the titlework
Deal killer for me would be the top....risky gamble on sheetmetal condition and not great looking to my eye, but some people love them.
Biggest thing I have noticed is MANY people today do not have the titles to stuff they're trying to sell, or it's from the guy that the guy they got it from got it from and nobody ever bothered to do the titlework
That upper radiator hose looks like a piece of rotini pasta.
Don't see how it would pass coolant thru there.
No exterior emblems or trim? Repaint?
Don't see how it would pass coolant thru there.
No exterior emblems or trim? Repaint?
Now it gets down to your skill level and how you would want to deal with it. I could do the job myself, but only after the seller dropping the price. If you’d have to pay someone to fix it, I’d pass.
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