Skip,
A real project car that is mostly complete would be worth more than a couple
of thousand. A running project should fetch between 10 - 15K if it was a
complete car. However, I personally don't consider this a project. Unless
you really love the styling (there may be Someone...) this is now a parts
car. It would be extremely difficult to return any of the body panels back
to original, even without looking for the normal rust areas. The drive
train and suspension may be original and maybe the dash, but little else in
the interior. Simply put the PO destroyed all of the most costly parts of
the car and only the mechanicals are left to be sorted out for spares. I
may get flamed, but I would no longer consider this a Healey and certainly
wouldn't pay a Healey price for the car.
Just my $.02 so flame away
Pete
----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Skip
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:43 PM
Cc: Healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: In the eye of the behoilder
I made a "best offer" of $50.... (maybe I could find $50 worth of parts
off it?)...
Anyway, it was rejected. "we are not accepting any offers under
$10000.00 after all... it is a healey! thanks for your interest!"
I'd consider this a "project car"... but they don't show any of the
critical rust areas, so it probably has bad rust..... Plus, all the body
panels need to be replaced or refurbished...
Anyone believe a project car is worth more than $2-3k????
-skip-
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