where are all the fastbacks -

What does this have to do with TECH? I mean,,, USE the TALK section please.

i hate elanwhores

I'm glad I've already got mine!

Tim

If you want a fastback then you had better get one soon. They have become so popular that the prices are increasing at an alarming rate. They never really made that many to begin with and with all the freaks making those stupid ugly Eleanor clones out of them the 67-68 model ones are going ot be extinct soon. Even the 65-66 cars are getting hard to come by. Most are either crap at a high price or completely restored at a higher price so the choices keep dwindling. My buddy has been looking for quite a while now and just can't seem to find one that is a decent car to start with.

I'm sure glad I already have 2

Thread Jack- Anyone know what pully system they are using on the small block engines? With the A/C compressor on the p/s side and the alt on the driver side? Looking at different bracket set ups and can't seem to find any like that besides Zoops, and they are gaudy as all hell...

The Swede

good thing i decided i want a convertible

I bought my fastback about 2 1/2 years ago and paid $7,200 for it. My boss thought I was nuts, since like a lot of guys (me included) he remembered them being $2,500 or so for a decent one not all that long ago. Today he asked me what I'd take for it (it's not for sale). We started talking about the current market and he said that he would buy them all day long for $7,200 given the chance again. I can't really say that the current Eleanor thing pisses me off, since like about 99% of you, I have yet to see one and second, it has caused the value of my car and all fastbacks to double. Anyone who says they didn't see fastback prices going up sooner or later is blind. I bought a cherry '65 fastback in '89 and paid about 3 times what I would have for a similar coupe. When you figure that they made something like 4 coupes for every fastback, common sense dictates that the law of supply and demand would take over sooner or later, Eleanor or no Eleanor. If you want a fastback, you'd better get on the stick and get one, because they certainly will never be cheaper. A local builder sold a car at Barrett-Jackson this past January and met a guy from Canada that was one of the bidders on the $260,000 GT500. They hit it off and the guy commisioned my friend to build a killer fastback for his soon-to-be 16 year old son. My friend had recently sold a decent '68 fastback for $8,000 and contacted the current owner to see if he could buy it back. The guy has owned the car for less than a year, the car needed new floors, etc and he ended up selling the car back for about $14,000. That's nearly 100% profit for a car he never touched! What would drive someone to pay that? He got a real lesson in how desirable fastbacks have become, and actually flew to Las Vegas to buy one that sold an hour before he got there! Supply and demand, guys. It doesn't matter whether it's cars, houses, antiques, or whatever, it goes to the highest bidder. Blame Eleanor if you want, but the truth is that we all knew about fastbacks long before they were this spendy, and we knew they didn't make them anymore and didn't buy one then, so who's really at fault?

My 68 is for sale, it's a fastback too!

I'll give you five bucks and my G.I. Joe collection. Just kidding! I would love to get my hands on a '67-'68 FB!! (Like everyone else)

Hmmmm......I think I'll stick with my 70.

I agree that if you want a fastback you better jump on it. Be prepared and have the money available when you go look. If you sleep on the decision it won't be there the next day. I was very fortunate when I purchased my last FB. My friend saw it in the early edition Sunday paper on a Saturday evening and brought it over to show me because he thought it was just what I was talking about getting SOMEDAY.

Even though I was not actually in the market for a fastback at the time I went and looked at the car very first thing Sunday morning. I was the first person to look at it and I knew walking up to it from the street that I was buying it. I haggled the guy down to $2000 form $2500 and went to the convenience store and used my ATM card to get the earnest money to seal the deal. The guy was leaving that afternoon on a business trip and wouldn't be home till Teusday so we agreed I would meet him on Wednesday with the balance of the cash and pick up the car.

When I went to get the car he told me that his answering machine had about 30-40 calls while he was gone, all trying to buy the car sight unseen. Everyone he talked with tried to get him to sell the car out from under me for twice the price...sight unseen. Luckily he was an honest guy and I now have a fastback that was too cheap to pass up and even though I was still in the middle of doing the 57 T-Bird and wasn't even able to touch the FB for 1.5 years I had to act that MINUTE....or the car would have been in someone else's garage an hour after I would have walked away.

If you see something you like and it meets your needs/wants/budget then buy it and don't look back.....and don't worry about all the hidden problems you find along the way because all old cars have those.