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Reply to "Weber Carbed L at PIM?"

The car did sell. I believe the buyer received a very good car for the price. I knew the former owner of the car and the seller very well. It was a good car to begin with. For comparison sake and how I evaluated this car, consider the following:

Cost of platform car: $25,000.00+
Cost of rebuilt engine: $3,000-5,000.00 (Basically a warmed up 351C)
Cost of paint and bodywork: $5,000 (conservative figure) The appearance was very good.
Cost of Webers and manifold and tune: $5,000.00 (Brand new)
Cost of brand new PIM Heritage wheels and Michelins: $3,200
Interior re-do and engine bay, detailing and miscellaneous upgrades: $3,000.00.
The car had a lot of other add-ons.
What hurt the sale of this car was the Webers, lack of paperwork and the fact that the price of the car started quite high initially. When a car is priced too high and then is gradually lowered, some buyers think that the price will continue to fall into their price range, rather than making a move on the car. Here, we had 3 interested buyers when the price was dropped to $37,995. Final comment on Webers: I am sad that so many people bad mouth them based on limited knowledge or personal experience. I have never been sorry having them. What can be a problem is not having the proper camshaft and other performance upgrades to deal with 2,600 CFM! We hope the new owner of the "Wicked one" will have a great experience with his purchase.
Dave
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