Someone please save these cars.

BK_CAULEY · Jan 24, 2009

i wsh i had the money too but i dont. these cars need to be saved from destruction.

mustang body only no title

mustang

http://nashville.craigslist.org/cto/1000485740.html

DeVus1 · Jan 24, 2009

I will pass. Sometimes you just have to put a racehorse down.

QUICK91LX · Jan 24, 2009

Those are all salvagable, easily. I would do it if I had the funds

BK_CAULEY · Jan 24, 2009

any fox is salvagable

MAC'n89Blckstng · Jan 25, 2009

The guy who owns those first two sounds like a real piece of trash. Lol DONT WASTE MAH TAHME!

1991notchbackLX · Jan 25, 2009

RedFoxGT said:
The real question is whether its worth restoring.

very few collectible cars are actually "worth" doing a full restoration on, speaking in economical terms... you could easily spend 75k fully restoring a 1969 Chevelle or any other desirable muscle car and get 50k or under in return... just ask Barrett-Jackson, most people do it for the love of the car hobby, sentimental value, nostalgia, etc.

to me they're all worth it, i just don't have the means monetarily, and many people on here are in the same boat i'm sure

1993SSP · Jan 25, 2009

The guy with the first two can dream on, I'd give $200 tops for em both

Strippt88 · Jan 25, 2009

1991notchbackLX said:
very few collectible cars are actually "worth" doing a full restoration on, speaking in economical terms... you could easily spend 75k fully restoring a 1969 Chevelle or any other desirable muscle car and get 50k or under in return... just ask Barrett-Jackson, most people do it for the love of the car hobby, sentimental value, nostalgia, etc.

to me they're all worth it, i just don't have the means monetarily, and many people on here are in the same boat i'm sure

Barrett-Jackson, and the rich, orthodontist type, speculators, are what ruined the hobby. If you don't care about the cars, stay with real estate, or stocks(they did a great job on those investments). Plus, those guys ask massive $ for cars they restored(most likely, had someone else do), but aren't going to get that money for the car, but it makes the ads look frightening to anyone but another speculator. $40K for a toy car? Thats why they run those ads for so long, the car sits there, nobody's gonna buy it. And the real car guys are left out. Have a heart, save a 5.0!

TwoToneHatch · Jan 25, 2009

Wow i really wish i had the funds to save those cars. I can't tell how much i hate seeing wasted potential. Like at a local junkyard of mine there's a '79 pace car that ran and drove and was in decent shape when the guy sold it to them. Now it's on the ground resting on the floors rotting away and it's barley been parted out

QUICK91LX · Jan 25, 2009

TwoToneHatch said:
Wow i really wish i had the funds to save those cars. I can't tell how much i hate seeing wasted potential. Like at a local junkyard of mine there's a '79 pace car that ran and drove and was in decent shape when the guy sold it to them. Now it's on the ground resting on the floors rotting away and it's barley been parted out

Where in NJ are you from? I heard of a car that suffered a similar fate near me.

88mouse · Jan 25, 2009

TwoToneHatch said:
Wow i really wish i had the funds to save those cars. I can't tell how much i hate seeing wasted potential. Like at a local junkyard of mine there's a '79 pace car that ran and drove and was in decent shape when the guy sold it to them. Now it's on the ground resting on the floors rotting away and it's barley been parted out

There was one like that around here. Just a shell tho. I went back the next day with the car trailer. When I got there they told me I was an hour to late. It had allready be crushed.

1991notchbackLX · Jan 25, 2009

Strippt88 said:
Barrett-Jackson, and the rich, orthodontist type, speculators, are what ruined the hobby. If you don't care about the cars, stay with real estate, or stocks(they did a great job on those investments). Plus, those guys ask massive $ for cars they restored(most likely, had someone else do), but aren't going to get that money for the car, but it makes the ads look frightening to anyone but another speculator. $40K for a toy car? Thats why they run those ads for so long, the car sits there, nobody's gonna buy it. And the real car guys are left out. Have a heart, save a 5.0!

I agree with you 100%. I appreciate the cars that are done "on your own time and on your own dime." Big dollar, true car collectors like Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld are one thing, but the fact that every doctor or dentist with a spare 50k now sees a muscle car they know nothing about as a status symbol is ruining the car hobby for a lot of people with more meager lifestyles.

Concourse-worthy collector cars that were on a rotisserie for 10 years before being shown aside, I would like to see the muscle car craze remain in the middle class driveways and garages it started in.

82CapriRS · Jan 25, 2009

the capri isnt that bad from the pics. if it was closer i would deff go take a look. no buble back an not rotted like crazy so it wouldnt be that bad of a car if it looks like that in person. the 2 cars stuck in the woods idk, floors are probably gone. not somethin i would wanna do but deff fixable. guess it all depends on what you want an how bad you want it.

5.SL0W · Jan 25, 2009

sad to see. some guy in my town has an early 80's cobra that has been sitting in his yard for ten years that he thinks is worth 10 million dollars. oh well, is too bad, but it happens

TwoToneHatch · Jan 25, 2009

QUICK91LX said:
Where in NJ are you from? I heard of a car that suffered a similar fate near me.

I'm from around franklinville. The junkyard is in what i think is considered williamstown. It was a 4cylinder/4speed pace car just sitting on the floors. A buddy of mine took the tail-lights but other than that there wasnt much missing.

JadeGT · Jan 25, 2009

The first cars are too far gone. You could buy a low millage, unmolested, version for what it would cost to bring thise back.

SVT32VDOHC · Jan 25, 2009

With no title they are useless. Who wants to spend $10,000+ building a car with no title that you can only trailer around and drive at a track? That is dumb.

DocG · Jan 26, 2009

Yeah I don't get it either. Its one thing if that particular car was once your car and had sentimental value.

But for the average joe to go and start with a car like that....that average joe must be a glutton for punishment because like others have said, if you like restoring cars you'd find something a little more put together already.

/cars life.

BK_CAULEY · Jan 26, 2009

SVT32VDOHC said:
With no title they are useless. Who wants to spend $10,000+ building a car with no title that you can only trailer around and drive at a track? That is dumb.

cause they are both old enough in GA alls you ned is a bill of sale.

Gearbanger 101 · Jan 26, 2009

DeVus1 said:
I will pass. Sometimes you just have to put a racehorse down.

A car sitting in a field (especially a fox body) for go knows how long just screams.....no floor pans and dry rot. They all look like they're more trouble than they're worth IMO.

He wants $250 for them because that's probably what he'll get for them as scrap metal....which is probably all they're worth at this point. 10-years ago they might have been worth a look, but now....

Someone please save these cars.

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