The fenders are good. They just need the typical lower fender patches. and if they're still original 70 fenders, that would be a score
I'm with you, Jason. Newer (nos) fenders just don't look right. I'd rather patch the originals. I wish this car was closer. I need a nice speedo and blue interior pieces.
What do you guys think it is worth? I’d have to add the cost of shipping it to Pennsylvania. Wha are the main or obvious differences from the 70 fenders,compared to the 71-72? With the Oldsmobiles,they added ribs along the top rail of the hood jamb,to act as a crumple zone. Easily visible when hood is open,and very tacky when a car has one ribbed fender and one flat fender. The NOS Olds fenders are ribbed,since they were leftover from 72.
No difference in the original 70-72 fenders, but the numbers guys would rather have date correct parts. NOS fenders were spot welded together different near the firewall area, probably from worn out tooling, making them harder to line up with the hood and distorting the body lines between the wheel well area and the door.
same here, I got spoiled living in Montana and finding truckloads of perfect sheet metal dirt cheap. I now refuse to deal with rust repair in any form.
You're probably going to have another $500 to $700 to ship it... to put forth all the effort to make it worth your time I wouldn't pay more than $1500. The hood, fenders, seats, gauges and console should get close your money back I would think. After parting out many lost causes over the last 20 years I see about a $1000 profit in the motor, brackets, steering column, glass, deck lid, bumpers and other smaller parts. If you buy it I would be interested in the 70 front end bumper brackets and maybe the front bumper (if you think it can be straightened as a core) and maybe the grill.
The major population is down here in Milwaukee. Makes sense to me to advertise where the biggest closes city is. I check green bays all the time. A lot of us city folks have to travel the country roads to find cars. I seen this car thought is had some good parts but to much of a hall for me. And I’m not a 70-72 guy.
Thought it would be at your house by now Brian ..... I was thinking about it again but the freight keeps making it difficult for me...
I need to find someone coming back empty. Your typical aut hauler company will want too much. A few guys I know would do it fairly cheap,but they already have a car coming back.
I have not even looked at the ad - I was just reading you guyz back and forth. I have not been in the GS world for quite a while so am not a real player. I would love to have a GS project but they usually are out of my ballpark. But - I have been buying Reattas lately. I bought two 1988's and both run and drive and need restored. "Yeah, so?" I am active on a forum under the AACA - reatta sub section and a parts car came available in Colorado to support my cars plus another member in Wisconsin AND I thought this was a great IDEA - to "pool" money to buy the car and split it up to what was needed by each member! (Meaning multiple posters on the forum, not just the 2 of us) That's how I think anyway. Guy selling the parts car (basically a non runner with a cracked windshield) eventually went down to $650 and it will cost me $700 to transport it to Des Moines, Iowa BUT the rub is NOBODY wanted to go in on the "out of the box" idea of a collective purchase. I know crazy right. I was bummed. I thought - I put in $250, other members do the same and the car ends up in Iowa where "we" or I strip the car and ship the parts or people come get what they want. I also figured because of past high volume of posts in the Reatta world - surely we had someone in Colorado that could take the car if we purchased it collectively - and we could use that as a base. Nyet and Nyet on all counts. Why would that NOT work on this car? Offer the guy what everyone who wants parts thinks the car is worth - say $1700. Then collect $300 here, $300 there until you have the $1700. The LOCAL guy that spotted the ad acts as the front man and buys the car, hauls it back to his place, and now that it is secure, let the stripping go on. You can either plan a road trip to get what you want or agree to have it shipped but I always wondered why the collective approach never worked on these sorts of cars. Do we just not trust people to follow through, especially with our money? I do. If I buy it for $2000 and transport it to Iowa for $600, and obviously have $2600 in it, would anyone buy parts off it to help recoup my costs?
I wouldn’t pay more than $1500.00 for it. Add another $500.00 to ship it,and I would be pressed to get that back out of it,plus my time. Someone local would benefit more from it.
