'72 dismantled Project car on Ebay

It is a shame. I see this sort of thing all the time. People taking cars apart with all good intentions, then finding out they have neither the skills or the cash or the foresight to put back together. Hopfully this car will find a new owner willing to "git er done!"

My bet is his minimum bid won't be meet so he will still be stuck with the car.

Reserve meet, she's changing hands! Still reasonable $10,000, but 8 days left,

Holy cow!!! When I looked this morning, it was only like $6500 bucks. It is over ten grand already??? Whoa!! Pantera market is hot. Hot, hot , HOT!!!
Come to think of it though, it is all there. That one guy wanted seventeen grand for that rusted out shell. This car is all there, still has paint and everything and he only wanted ten grand?? Wow. Just shows to go ya. They are worth whatever people think they are.

Yep, I agree I um hoping someone gets her and puts humpty dumbty back together. Isn't funny how fast stuff comes apart when you don't know nutting and how slow things go back together when you know even a little. I think he was like a big kid! I always loved taken stuff apart as kid myself, but never could get it back together or worse always had that box of left parts. Go figure 10K sounds go, but they better have a whole lot of loot to still put in her to make her right!

I did not look real hard but I think a couple of those pictures had some bad rust in them......and no, i am not bidding on this auction. )
To be expected for a 15k or under car

We have talked about this a bit before. What do you think the base price would be for a complete, solid car in need for restoration? A car with everything and relatively solid, but a car that needs a full restoration. We put the price for a car like this at $15k. The problem with a car that's been dissasembled is one you question if everything really is there, and two, you loose the oportunity to dissasemble it yourself and learn the car.

Gary

Hey that taking pictures of the car as you take it apart is a good idea. That way if you can't remember how something attacched or where it went, you can go back and study the pictures. Keeping notes would be a good idea too.

Yep being a newbie myself I have taken plenty of pictures while "coz" takes his car apart and puts it back together and apart and back and apart and back Yep that RV cam has pictures of it coming out of baby also!

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Originally posted by DeTom:
Hey that taking pictures of the car as you take it apart is a good idea. That way if you can't remember how something attacched or where it went, you can go back and study the pictures. Keeping notes would be a good idea too.

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Originally posted by DeTom:
Hey that taking pictures of the car as you take it apart is a good idea. That way if you can't remember how something attacched or where it went, you can go back and study the pictures. Keeping notes would be a good idea too.

When I started my MGB I took photos of everything. I have since reffered to those photos many times. Digital photography makes it great. It makes it easy to stroe a multitude of photos on the computer and allows you to work with the photos as needed. For instane dark areas can be singled out, blown up, lightened up with contrast changes to see what's going on.

If you take a car apart, deffinantly take lots of photos!

Gary

Coz,

are you currently bidding on this?

(Monday 8:30)
Mark

Like I said before, this is interesting. I think this reflects the value of a complete reletively solid (normal rust issues) in need of total restoration.

Gary

Did you notice that he added a repair manual as part of the deal. Wonder if he looked at it before he started.

I should have added to ny watch list. I would dread having to put that harness back under the dash, with just the pics. The car would be worth 10g more if it was assembled. I got one to go by.....but not bidding..good luck to the winner

3 hours to go and its at $16,750...Wow, I'm amazed at how the value of our cars is taking off recently. Glad I got in there and got mine late last year, I thought it was expensive initially (bought sight unseen), but the more I delve into it and now looking back I got a great deal.

A lot of people must have discovered the P car, maybe that's a reflection of the number of members and visitors to this board.

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Originally posted by comp2:
Like I said before, this is interesting. I think this reflects the value of a complete reletively solid (normal rust issues) in need of total restoration.

Gary

$22,600!

It went for 22.5 and I think one of our members landed it. I think it needed some tender love and care and if I think it is who I think.... it will end up as nice as the his present car.

All you have to do is put it together and it would sale for 32,000.00 Rust and all. Sounds like a good investment. The rust didn't look to bad from the pictures.

Well I know Jim Cozzolino DID NOT win it since his handle is different on ebay. Anybody else we possible know in the group who got it??

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Originally posted by accobra:
It went for 22.5 and I think one of our members landed it. I think it needed some tender love and care and if I think it is who I think.... it will end up as nice as the his present car.

Ok sorry I thought it was him ... I guess we have a difference of opinion. With all the talk of this site getting a huge amount of people on the site .. and speaking to vendors they have noticed a huge amount of action also ... and a bunch of cars popping up for sale .. I think that Pantera was a good investment.. Maybe because I can do the work myself ? Rust ? when you bought your Pantera you signed on to RUST and all. LOL

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Rust ? when you bought your Pantera you signed on to RUST and all. LOL

When you get one apart, it's a lot easier to get it taken care of right. Rust on a dissasembled car prior to paint is not half as bad as rust on a roadworthy gem.

Gary

did COZ buy this car ?............... the winning bidders name was jimcoz !

Comp2 , exactly my point .. with all the talk of rust on a Pantera ... my experience is that every 1973 car I have ever worked on and that includes GM, Ford Dodge etc. the Pantera's I have seen have less rust then those other manufactured cars. I think that car was a good buy at 22k. Its already taken apart.

Ron

And it's a good base price to start from.

Gary

Heck, I don't know why people complain about rust. Rust is lighter than steel so it just makes your car faster!! The more rust you have, the faster your car will go.

Well the real issue is the turbulence created by the "roughness". Especially when parts start falling off!

Gary

There's a Jim Cozzi (not to be confused with Jim Cozzolino) whom frequents the board, maybe it was him who bought it?

A good buy at $22.6K, I'm not so sure, unless prices really have taken a step change upwards over the last few months; a) There's a similar sort of dismantled project in the latest POCA newsletter with all new suspension for $15K, why hasn't that sold? b) about $5K more would have still got a complete running car.

One thing is for sure, I bet the seller is pleased as punch, his reserve was met when it hit $10K.

Julian

I wasn't saying it was a good buy, just an interesting price indicator.

I think anyway.

Gary

Hey,

This guy has obviously just seen what the previous '72 went for and decided to re-list his '72 again.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Makes-PANTERA-1972...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

If you missed out on the previous one, here's another chance at a project car!

That would be a good car to do some Crazy modifications to!

Gary