Need Advice on Car

[Coyoteduster]

If I had somewhere to put it, I'd buy it in a minute. :headbang:

 

[SteveSS]

Just fix the rust in the horrible ways, like Great Foam and Bondo. Drive until wheels fall off.

 

[Bruzilla]

Thank God I'm old enough to quit getting emotional about most cars. We all hate to see cars get crushed, but what I'm seeing is you just want to save a car from the crusher and not that you want to restore a Valiant. My experience has been when a guy buys a car like that it tends to sit around for years because the new owner can't find parts, time, money, or motivation to do anything with the car. Then it ends up sitting until someone comes along and offers $100 or so for the car or the owner sells it to another junkyard just to get rid of it, and the owner ends up losing most every dime they put into it.

My advice would be to save your $800 for a car you actually really want to own.

 

[Habib]

I know not to get emotional attached but I do really like the car I know you cant save all of them I get that but I liked it as a everyday car im 20 years old I would be the only guy around with one way better then some tuner

 

[Car Nut]

I don't want to buy it if he don't hAve the title there are a lot of other old mopars im my area I can buy and underneath looked really nice some rot on the torsion bar cross member but nothing to bad rust don't scare me that much anything can be fixed

Most junkyards have a salvage title for cars that they sell.

 

[Bruzilla]

I know not to get emotional attached but I do really like the car I know you cant save all of them I get that but I liked it as a everyday car im 20 years old I would be the only guy around with one way better then some tuner

Here's the view from a 53 yr old. There's two reasons to buy an old car in this state. The first is because you really want one and just can't wait to make it the next love of your life. The second is because you want to flip, restore, or mod it and sell it on to make money. Only you know if it meets the first criteria, but my experience is if it's just a car you like, or worse feel sorry for, it's going to end up taking up permanent residence in your garage or yard and remain pretty much untouched until you unload it to the next starry-eyed guy who comes along. As for the second criteria, there's no demand for these cars so there's no money in them either, so it pretty much fails on that count.

My Golden Rule is if you feel you could live without it, live without it.

 

[gdrill]

Well put Bruzilla.

 

[BigBlock61]

but my experience is if it's just a car you like, or worse feel sorry for, it's going to end up taking up permanent residence in your garage or yard and remain pretty much untouched until you unload it to the next starry-eyed guy who comes along.

I can't disagree with what Bruzilla said at all but I also can't completely agree with him either. When I bought my Coronet I wasn't looking for one. My son wanted a project car that the two of us could build. If I would have bought what I loved and could see myself owning for the rest of my life then it would have been a Charger. After I bought the car my frame of mind was, I'm gonna build it and I've been out in the garage every day fixing a car I could never see myself owning. Over time my son abandoned the project and I grew to love it. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that, if you like the car or even if you don't but can make the commitment to it to make it what you want then go for it. It's your frame of mind and what you're willing to do that will make a project yours.