Did I miss a good deal?

I was watching this and intended on bidding, but missed the end of the auction. :bash:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270110846273&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=017

looks like a ton of work, I’d be happy if i missed that

looks like a death trap!

looks like a POS to me

don’t you have a lot of unfinsihed projects all ready

it doesn’t look like that much work at all to me… :dunno:.

I do have a lot of projects, but I’ve been looking for a chassis car to put my 68 nova drag car guts into since the rear end shifted over. I mean, you couldn’t build that ebay car for 1700…

That thing is junk. The back half is no where close to being right. Only worth scrap value.

I got my '55 off of eBay and it looked better than that. I wanted a cheap home for an engine and transmission. The cheap way definitely wasn’t cheaper…

guess its a good thing i didn’t bid it!

Yeah. Little by little it adds up. On the '55, we replaced the front suspension with drag springs/shocks, drop spindles, disk brakes. Replaced the ladder bar cross member and coil-overs. New cage. Fiberglass doors and body work. The list goes on and on.

Good learning experience. But, next time, I’d save up for a rear frame kit with 4-link and a whole front subframe with mustang ii rack and coil-overs. Connect them and use a fiberglass body. I’ll bet it would be cheaper and less time consuming in the long run.

Good miss, it’s a pile. It looks like half-assed “fabrication” with mail-order parts. That’s not a 4-link, it’s ladder bars. And I wouldn’t trust any of the welding in there. It’d ALL need re-done. Now, if ALL of the sheetmetal was solid would it still be worth $1700 even knowing you’re going to cut it all out and start over? Probably, it is a 1st gen and the 9" rear would be re-useable w/ freshening. But it wasn’t a steal.

-TJ