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If you are referring to the wrecked car, it's just for parts. Nobody would spend the time or money to try to fix that mess.
All cars on BaT stall until the last couple of hours of the auction but agreed economically this is nothing more than a parts car. Unfortunately, many cars like this get purchased and repaired poorly before passing on to an unsuspecting new owner.
This repair is just another day at the office for us. We'll re-cap it, two used doors, used roof & glass. That's why we keep parts cars in stock. Once we cut the front off we do the frame up. Fit a used front cap, roof, hang the doors then glass. When we get done with it only the 'hairdresser will know for sure' it was ever wrecked. We've done worse hits than this. Actually 'T' Boned cars are a lot more work. Roll-overs are less work. We've done 'em all. This one, however, carries a Salvage title but keep in mind a lot of buyers don't care about that. They're not buying with the intention to sell it. We custom build it their way. Modern steering, wheels, brakes, cold A/C, leather, tunes, 180's, stacks, dropped floors, fav colors etc., lots of HP or a Dart engine, many flavors available when building a car from this. People find this feature attractive. We've sold two cars so far this month, both buyers have radically different ideas of mods they want done. As an aside we find 'average buyers' are in their late 30's these days.
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Quite a lot of photos at the BAT listing. Sadly, due to reflections and overhead lights it is very difficult to ascertain the full extent of how badly this car was tweaked.
to fix it correctly will be a major and expensive project, but of course anything can be done. Whether it can be done to make it economically feasible is a different question; comes down to a question of money versus your love for the car
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Larry
