There is a narrow market for guys who are looking to restore a muscle car rather than write a check for the finished product. A GSX is a rare car. A GSX project car is 100x more rare. At 65k its not a good buy but not everyone looks at these cars as a pseudo business venture.
Another thing to consider is that you could spend years just trying to locate the parts to build this car. With resto time it could easily take 5 years before you could drive it. I would rather buy and drive a decent one now while I still can. Never know what life will throw at you.
As my Buddy Glen use to say it’s rotted right up to the door handles! Even with a numbers matching documented gsx how much of the original car are you going to have left as it requires extensive sheet metal replacement! Not nocking it ,can be done! But if you took it to a shop you would easily have 40-80 thousand rebuilding the body and fitting the replacement sheet metal! If a guy could work on it and do the work himself maybe a project!
As a noobie, first thing I learned is the “old lady curve”. I’m currently at 30-50% actual purchase price.
Idk what mine thinks. I've gone to p/u "parts" and when she (sometimes) notices there's a new car in the driveway & I have to explain the parts are just still all attached to ea. other. Then again, 2 of my GS's came to me already apart & in boxes.
Except for a few here, most of the planet can't stomach "The Beater" beater, at any price, lol. Probably a good solution though at the right price.
May have left a few dollars on the table or could be theres an Xtra zero at the end.Funny how I see the same comments when I brought the GSX from Kleiner a good 15 years ago .Hope he gets his price he can come get my other one..lol
There’s a not so fine line between a fun beater and a rolling roach. OK, at 5K this could be a fun beater, albeit A really terrible one. But at 65K it’s a rolling roach. My hats off to you guys who grew up around this kind of rust and it’s just considered A normal part of restoration(??) The rust on this car is so bad it makes me hurt. If someone actually does restore this car at some point I would love to see the picture of the end pile of rusty castoffs. Guessing that pile would be well over half of the weight of the entire car……. Steve weim55 Colorado
Seen on Graveyard cars where every bit of sheet metal has been replaced from the floor to the roof and even the cowl has been sectioned. At what point is the cutoff for it to be classified as restored ?
Now you’re getting in to ‘George Washington’s axe’. A car that has what you mentioned is ok, but a rebody isn’t, but unless the restorer filmed the entire job, how do you know what he did? (And which would you rather have-all factory welds still intact or a patchwork quilt?) The seller of this X may be hoping someone will do the rebody math-that’s the only way it’d make any sense to buy at $65k. Disclaimer: I’M not advocating a rebody. Patrick
Good chance it would look almost exactly like the ad pictures except missing two specific rectangle pieces of metal. Patrick
Have you seen the episode with the remains of a Daytona Charger? In "To Far Gone", they declined the rebuild of the car. There aren't ANY pictures of the floor, trunk, and cowl of the GSX to really know if the shell is salvageable, but from what I can see, it still can be saved. The question is more along the lines of value and worth IMHO.
Uh-oh Charlie, now you've opened that can of philosophical worms. Been a few threads on here over the years discussing this subject, of which @Brian Albrecht & I have contributed to the discussion. Not sure we want to re-hash it all again here but we'll see where it goes.
Car wasn't at Nationals, just a 1 page flyer advertising it for sale. It was Joe's (GSXER), so he has the "real story".
Well if nothing else, he's getting some publicity since it's now on barnfinds.com. The comments at the bottom of the barnfinds.com article are not fond of the $65k price. https://barnfinds.com/1-of-678-1970-buick-gsx/
It's all a game... Get as much free publicity, generate a "buzz", offer it at a ludicrous price... Someone comes along and says "There's no way it's worth $65,000.... how about $30,000?" then negotiate to $35,000... And you just made a cool $10,000 and (possibly) were able to keep some very rare parts (hood tach, steering wheel)... Not a bad return on your investment..
