Vert Fixer-Upper for the Ambitious

krash kendall

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Click through the photos and check out the additional export brace made out of swingset A-frame cross-braces. After seeing that, I think my jalopy must be worth millions!

http://greatvehicles.chooseyouritem.com/classics/files/69000/69481.html

 

Capt Dan

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I am not an expert, but wouldn't that thing twist to pieces if you tried to pull it out with all the bottom rusted out? Convertibles are not very strong to begin with, are they?

 

chepsk8

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Braces are correct.

YIKES! I think the only thing I saw that's salvageable was the glove-box door!

 

krash kendall

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chepsk8 said:

Braces are correct.

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Are they convertable specific?

 

chepsk8

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I think so, but let's get our brother's here to confirm.

 

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Comeon guys.. where are they diehards around here.... that's salvagable... just give me a couple months................




















and about $30k

 

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I paid less than that for old Sadie.

Mustang buying tip #1: If you need a weed whacker or a chainsaw to get to the car, it's probably not worth buying.

-Chelle

 

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yes the braces are correct for 65-66 verts. it lookis salvageable to me, i've seen worse cars get restored. the price on the other hand is way out of line for what you get though

 

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"almost perfect body" I guess he didn't see all the holes in the trunk lid, fenders, etc., etc...............and at $2700.! They must be smokin' the weeds that pony is buried in!

 

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Reminds me of a 1964 Impala SS convertible I went to look at once. It too had been abandoned without a top. It was so bad even the dashboard was rusting away!

 

Realmongo

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krash kendall said:

Click through the photos and check out the additional export brace made out of swingset A-frame cross-braces. After seeing that, I think my jalopy must be worth millions!

http://greatvehicles.chooseyouritem.com/classics/files/69000/69481.html

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As pointed out above, those cross braces are correct for the 65 and up, which is by the way a quick way to ID a 1964-1/2, as they lack those cross braces.

 

krash kendall

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The ones I'm talking about aren't the two piece export brace to the shock tower, they are the tubular ones that extend all the way to the front aprons. I looked at verts on ebay and saw that they had them while any coupes I've seen only have the firewall to shock tower braces.

 

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yeah, the tubular ones are stock too.

What a piece....

 

Realmongo

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krash kendall said:

The ones I'm talking about aren't the two piece export brace to the shock tower, they are the tubular ones that extend all the way to the front aprons. I looked at verts on ebay and saw that they had them while any coupes I've seen only have the firewall to shock tower braces.

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We know! We know! Those are on all 65 and 66 convertibles in addition to the regular braces, but not on 64-1/2 convertibles. They are never stock on anything else.

 

Capt Dan

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I wonder if JJ Best would really finance that.

 

krash kendall

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Realmongo said:

We know! We know! Those are on all 65 and 66 convertibles in addition to the regular braces, but not on 64-1/2 convertibles. They are never stock on anything else.

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That makes it perfectly clear! The way I read it earlier I somehow interpreted it to say All '65-'66 model cars, but not '64 1/2 convertables.

I work alone with two CNC machines all day, so sometimes the only language I comprehend is G-code.

 

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I love the weeds in the steering wheel. There is no way I could take on a challange of that magnatude.

 

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That thing is Cherry. I know a guy who would buy it and put it back into it's natural habitat, another weed pile where the blackberry bushes could grow up through the floor boards.

Would that be labeled a "fixer-upper"?