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dancerjodiBadAndy is out at a job site right now, and met an employee of that company who is selling a 79 Monte Carlo for $700.
Shit.
The thing is insured and is running, Bad Andy says it looks good from the pics.
He'll get more details from the guy after he's done with his job. If the body is in good shape its worth $700 just to sit in my garage and gradually be rebuilt (oh, and BadAndy wouldn't have any fun at all doing that, nope - can you sense my sarcasm?).
Hee hee, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Shit.
The thing is insured and is running, Bad Andy says it looks good from the pics.
He'll get more details from the guy after he's done with his job. If the body is in good shape its worth $700 just to sit in my garage and gradually be rebuilt (oh, and BadAndy wouldn't have any fun at all doing that, nope - can you sense my sarcasm?).
Hee hee, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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Date: 2003-08-13 09:27 am (UTC)"excuse me, but you need to get out of the car. our friend must have it."
Re: sweet car!!
Date: 2003-08-13 09:34 am (UTC)Me too, it was my first car.
"Nice old V8, pimpdaddy (or pimpmama) luxury cah"
Actually they came with a V6 standard (4.3 L). I'd want to drop a V8 in, though.
"I hope you can get it! :)"
Its kind of a time I wanted to save money, not spend it. But if its seems like a good deal we'll probably go for it (B was going to suprise me for it, but then figured I might hit him or something for spending the money, so he called about it).
Ze Car
Date: 2003-08-13 09:36 am (UTC)Hee hee, yup, I think that myself when I drive past them.
Mine was dark blue (though the hood was light blue - the guy that had the car before me gave it to me for free and left me to fix the hood and grill).
Damn, that hood came from Marlboro too! From the junk yard on Rt. 20 (Post Road Auto). I had to walk through the yard with my Dad who brought his own tools so we could take the thing off of the junk heap it was attached to. That was before the days of the internet, when I called all over fricken MA to find a hood and grill that wasn't dented.
Then to only 1 month later get rear-ended (and totalled) by a tow truck. Ouch!
Ah, the good ole days!
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Date: 2003-08-13 09:38 am (UTC)Re: sweet car!!
Date: 2003-08-13 09:39 am (UTC)Yup,
Date: 2003-08-13 09:43 am (UTC)That's the big problem with buying old cars in MA . . . too much time spent driving in the snow.
I'm hoping that having Andy with me (since he's a mechanic and has done body work) will help with this. There has got to be a reason that the thing is only $700 . . . I'm hoping its because its not a hot rod and has lots of miles on the engine.
I know back in 92 mine didn't have any rust, but that was a long time ago. Here's hoping they hold up! I had a regal in 93 similar to R's car and back then the thing was rusty (not to mention, had a shitty engine that seized on me 6 months after I bought the thing).
OK, I'll stop geeking :)
Re: my first "big" car
Date: 2003-08-13 10:02 am (UTC)Heh, my parents version of that would be the puke green pinto (you know, the ones that were recalled because they would explode on impact?). That was my Dad's one and only car until he got the Volkswagon Bus, then the Impala (drools) then he got Mom her own car, one of those red and faux wood paneled station wagons.
"I used to take the Zephyr out on Sunday drives.. I kid you not.. me and the long winding back roads of suburbia. Open windows and the smell of trees and loud rock & roll blaring from the speakers."
Yes, I miss those times very much. Mine was so perfect too because of my last name - it was "The MarmontiCarlo".
Re: Yup,
Date: 2003-08-14 12:00 am (UTC)oh man, i can't wait to drive in the snow 8-)
http://djeugenius.com/stuff/cars/2000_BlazerZR2/ProspectHill_052703/PICT0005.JPG
It works so well off-road. I'm so psyched to drive it in the snow.