Good news/bad news: I've located my 1st car (!)...

[Donutblue]

Eric, drag a good looking bar-maid from one of the local pubs making google eyes at him all the time. --- you'll get your car, and at your price.

[COPO427]

How long did you own it for. The less the better for letting it go, if it's not what you expected.

[VintageMusclecar]

Well, I recieved pics last night. The car is definitely saveable, but not worth anything even remotely close to what he's asking in it's current condition.

e(vil)Bay pricing strikes again. Guess it's to be expected anymore.

I'm not even going to bother with a counter-offer on the car. We're not even in the same ballpark.

Just from the pics I can see about $6-8K worth of work that needs to be done to make the car "right" and un-do the half-assed repairs that have been done to this point, and $10K + to make it "nice". It's an "OK" driver at the moment. And this is in the mindset of something one would want to keep, not roll over to try and make a profit on.

No sense wasting anymore time on it.

Here's wishing you a better life, old friend.

*sigh*

[musclecarjohn]

Sometimes that's just what you gotta do...

WALK AWAY and put that investment into something a little more "solid" and original.

[GeorgeLyons]

I strongly say: Try hard to buy it and never look back. What's it worth to say: Oh, it was my first car bought when i was 16 for $200 ? Whatever you pay today you will not take your money back in a little time. Memories and sentiment are not investments anyway..........they're priceless now and forever.

[70CitrusZ]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1967-REST...1QQcmdZViewItem
check out this for example.
If the guy wants over 12-15k for your old car thant needs resto, heres one ready to go for 24?, and numbers match to boot.

[VintageMusclecar]

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I strongly say: Try hard to buy it and never look back. What's it worth to say: Oh, it was my first car bought when i was 16 for $200 ? Whatever you pay today you will not take your money back in a little time. Memories and sentiment are not investments anyway..........they're priceless now and forever.

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George;

While I agree 1,000%, I simply can not bring myself to willingly let someone hose me like that on the price. It's just not worth it, no matter how much I'd love to have the car back.

[ QUOTE ]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1967-...QQcmdZViewItem
check out this for example.
If the guy wants over 12-15k for your old car thant needs resto, heres one ready to go for 24?, and numbers match to boot.

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I saw that, and that car is a LOT nicer than my old one currently is.

Besides, I already called the dealers bluff in an email, so I'm sure I won't be on his Christmas card mailing list anytime soon, if you get my drift. Yes, I'm sure it cost me any chance of getting my old car back, but I just don't deal well with people trying to hose me.

Such is life, I suppose. Time to move on.