I agree 100%, I also like that no one has scrubbed off or painted over the factory fire wall etc markings. The only thing I don't like is the AC. Chris
What Original Survivor??o No: I see a worn and rusting all over car.Needs a complete resto.There wasnt a photo that showed any repair free area.38K buys you the right to start a full resto that will run 40K better.
Maybe I better put my non stage QQ car on the market, its in better condition body wise than this one. I'd even take a little less for it.p
Put it on here Mike so we can flame about it as well Just kidding. I wonder after some self appraisal I am just jealous its not mine. I've always wanted an X and realize unless "I find one in a barn" Its probably too much car for me. I'll probably try to do a clone after the Suncoupe is finished
I would have to say this is the nicest GSX resto candidate I have seen in quite a while. A capable home restorer could carefully fix a few of the really bad areas on the body, to preserve the vehicle, and do some spot painting of those areas, along with the hood stripes, and then with a lot of elbow grease could have a pretty dang nice driver GSX for a reasonable amount of money. I would guess with owner labor, and professional bodywork/ spot blending of the paint, your looking at a 50K investment total. You won't buy a numbers documented GSX that's nice, for anywhere near that number, even now. In a professional setting, to restore that car back to a #1 condition, the tab would most likely fall between the two numbers I saw thrown out here, I would ballpark it around 50K, putting your total investment up around 90K, but it's impossible to build a #1 car professionally for any less these days. Still a lot of labor time to make it perfect, and materials are not inexpensive, when it's done with quality stuff. But all in all, a very attractive car at that price. Hope it ends up with a good home, but it's likely that this one will end up with a speculator, who is hoping the market will rebound on the classic stuff. This car would have fetched 60-80K pretty easy here about 4 years ago, the way it sits.
I totally agree. I love original cars. If I had it, all the problem areas would be fixed, and it would be kept unrestored. As beautiful as the concourse cars are, they're way nicer than they were from the factory.
Jim summed it up perfectly but I did want to mention something else. The car "as it sits right now" is the exact definition of a survivor car. If you were to take the car, again "as is" to an AACA show and put it in the historic "un-restored" class it would get high marks. They do not deduct points for holes etc, but do deduct points for repairs/replacement parts of any kind. Therefore if you fixed the fenders, replaced things under the hood etc, you would be taking some originality away from the car and would get hit for it. They are looking for totally un-restored cars with no replacement parts for that class. Basically the value of these vehicles, and the reason they are kept in this condition, is so everyone can see what they really looked like, and use them as a bench mark to restore their vehicles. Duane
$26,500? Hard to believe if you ask me. It says it was a 7 day auction, but the bidding started on 12/12 and ended on 12/13. Did he end it early or did it go for 5 days without any bids? I can't find the start date anywhere in the ad.
If you go to the bid history, the starting bid and date is when it started -Dec 12th. So it looks like he ended it early for reasons unknown.
I like as is. Preserve to stop rust and if time pasted maybe a restore. (678) Love seeing the classics:TU: :Comp:
I thought it canceled out all the bids when the auction was ended early and it returned to the opening bid amount ($10,000).
Strong rumor has that the car was purchased by a board member off the auction and is on it's way to Nick Serwo at the Gran Sport Garage in Ivyland Pa.
