Hey guys, I need some advice here. I received this car on a trade with my '50. I have posted it up for sale, but not getting ANY hits on it, here or elsewhere. I mean heck, I just want SOMETHING out of it. Wherein lies my question. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816021 The motor and ****** are good. Runs, shifts, etc. Decent tires and wheels. The body/frame is where there is some deterrent from a sale I think. One thought was to pull the 216 from my '50, and replace it with this drivetrain, so it is a non-torque tube setup, and would allow for a little more power (this is a 235 I believe), and potential more for building up the motor. Then was thinking of selling off the parts and s**** the metal, and keep some that would be good for a future build. What do you guys think?
You will probably find a taker for that price - but if not I am also sure you could probably part it and make more money if you have the time to mess with it. The body definitely looks pretty rough. We wouldn't mess with some rusty **** like that down here in Texas...lol.
Yeah, like I said, that body is the issue. If it was a 2 door, I might be in a different situation, but that is unfortunately not the case! Thanks for your input!
If I had to have one of those, the 50 wins hands down. The 63 probably is a 230 (if it's a 6), not a 235. the engine won't just bolt in, but is not hard to install. Don't know if you can use the 50 rear end or not-I doubt it. anyway, I would then s****/sell the 63.
The '50 is FOR SURE staying. Already have a good amount of work into 'er. I am just going to keep on trying with selling the 63, which could pay for a LOT on the '50...here's to hoping!
Pull the drivetrain and keep it if you think you'll end up using it. Pull off all the other good parts, take pics and put 'em up for sale in the parts cl***ifieds...all the non-specific to 4dr parts...windshield, rear window, hood, decklid, fenders, grill, bumpers, knobs, steering wheel/column wheels, brake drums, etc. etc. etc...whatever's good. S**** the rest.
All the parts that interchange with a 2 door should fetch some decent cash depending on the condition. 63 impalas are pretty popular.
If you had the room to keep the parts i would part it out then junk the rest. I would be interested in a couple parts.....
sell it complete. put a little time into cleaning it up up and making it look better. You could part it out, but then your stuck with the carc***, and a bunch of parts you can't throw out because someone somewhere someday might buy it. Thats my problem at least.
Around here that is a $500 parts car. I had a 63 2 door and could only get $800 for it, nobody wanted it including me, and it was a 283 glide car.
I think it would sell complete but $1500 is too much for a 4 door in that shape. An asking price under a grand would be a lot more realistic IMO. Parting it out would take a lot of hours but would also bring the most money. If you're good at it, you could get $2K+ out of that car between parts and s****, plus the drivetrain that you want to keep. Just plan on spending a lot of hours listing individual parts and packing/shipping stuff.
1) I don't have a clue what it's really worth--I don't mess that stuff that new unless it says falcon on it. I'm guessing your asking price is probably an OK starting point, but strong for the obvious reasons mentioned above. 2) you've only had in the cl***ifieds for a couple of days. sometimes it takes a while--selling a car isn't an instant thing. but I guess you figured out how to get your cl***ified looked at on the main page. I bit. 3) consider this a lesson learned. there's a VERY limited market for resale of 4 doors (and now all the 4 door lovers chime in). just becuase it seemed like a good deal to you doesn't mean it will be to someone else. unless a 4 door is what you really want and you're not worried about losing money at resale STAY AWAY--there's a reason they're the cheaper starter cars--most savy buyers don't want them. back to your question. I'd run her here, craigslist etc for a while and see what happens--and be flexible on you price. if you don't have any nibbles after a decent amount of time pull the motor and some key sellable parts then fill it full of s**** and be done with it. someone suggested making it look better. that's a big gamble. it could make it more saleable, but it just gets you deeper into a car that has little value. cut your losses and learn from this.
Donate it to a school with an automotive program for $2000 and write it off on your taxes, charitable contribution. Check how much you can write off before you do it.
For that coin, i'd have a backup daily rig if it was closer and I wasn't broke as ****.... I mean ****, how many guys on here need a real daily instead of the ****ty prius's and Hyundai's they drive to work and back, and that looks like a solid driver to me
you'd almost for sure be able to nickle and dime that thing up to your asking price. if you have the room part it out, on here would be free but take a little longer. if you put the parts on ebay you will almost surely make more money. matt
Well, ironically, I got a call last night! Maybe it was the mojo of all the HAMB'ers talking about it! So, we will see what offer he makes me. It is gonna have to wait for a little bit as I am out of town this weekend through early next week on vacation, and this guy works nights, I work days. Thanks for you help guys!
I was gonna say torch the coils, put a gl***pack on it, and spray the roof with Dupli-color rattle can flake, then take it to the local cruise night. they'll be beatin' your door down
If you want to sell it, you need to do more than post an ad here and pray someone finds it. I sell a few things here, but I do far more sales via eBay than anything else. Any legit cl***ified trader will do you better. When it comes to ads, you get what you pay for, if you pay some for the ad you generally get better results than any free ad will give you. Speaking of free ads, I find Craigslist to also be completely worthless, I spend more time putting the ads back up from busybody ***holes with nothing better to do than flag ads because they have no clue what they're looking at, than anything else. The few who do respond can't bother to even show up to look at a car. As a side note for the one post above, if you couldn't get more than $800 for a running 2-door V8 car, you were doing something wrong, or the car was a rusted out piece of ****.
That was the initial plan, but don't want to insure it right now...and the roof and wheels ARE rattle canned with flaked blue, and it sits super low already! Maybe a "FOR SALE" sign at the local cruise night would be the ticket to its new home!
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