[Shotimes] Opinions on Purchase

[Al Fitz]

If the body and interior are good, it should be worth $750 non-running. If
it needs an engine (unlikely) you will have an additional $1,000 in it. Even
if it's CPS, the part is cheap but the labor is not. You will have $500 in
parts and labor just for the CPS, timing belt and water pump.

IMHO, $1,000 is too much.


Al Fitz
alfitz@alfitz.com
SHO Parts at
http://www.alfitz.com/sho
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathon Beisler" <JBEIS001@stvincentshealth.com>
To: <SHOtimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:02 AM
Subject: [Shotimes] Opinions on Purchase


> Hello everyone,
> Would any of you, not counting the certified mechanical nuts that can swap
engines before breakfast, purchase a 92 Silver SHO with 145,000 that does
not run but appears only to need CPS, belts, oil seal, water pump and a 60K
service?  The person was asking $1500 but will take 1000, maybe less.  There
is zero service records but the last owner who went off to Iraq put in a
cone filter and who knows.  It's been sitting for at least a couple of
months, with the upper timing belt cover off and there is a lot of surface
rust around that area and finally the water pump that's there seems to be
seized, all though that could just be the rust.  I've been dying to get my
hands on a manual for a long time and if it is a simple repair, I could be
getting a bargain SHO.  But I need some objective advice as I have a
tendency to jump head first where angels fear to tread...  I can do all of
the work that seems to be needed.
> Thanks, JB
> 94 ATX
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