I'm 21. I have 4 cars. I'm not even allowed to keep them all at home :rant: I park the Electra at work for now, but I hate letting it get rained on so much now that we are in flooding season. The heater core just went south and it needs a new driver door panel. The window switch just kinda hangs there. Other than that, this thing is solid. Put a motor in 2 years ago and there's about 65,000 on it. 160,000 or so on the car. All sorts of gaskets and such all over the place. About 1,000 into the stereo system, nothing fancy. New steering box by Red Head, rebuilt the pump. BRAND new tires, good ones. Spent $750 on those :rant: I've put tons of love into this car. I drove it every day for 3 years. It does however need a distributor as it has a mild missfire on the freeway and we determined it was the bushing on the shaft that caused the magnetic pickups to slightly hit each other causing a bigger gap. If that makes sense at all. Here's the deal, I'm hoping to get at least 3,000 for it. That's how much I paid 3 years ago, and I've easily doubled that into the car since then. If I can't get that much I'm going to put it in storage and I hate to do that. I understand that there is a section for this, but I know when I log on I pretty much only read post in The Bench and I'm shooting for as many views as I can. So if anyone is interested please let me know. And sorry for cluttering up this thread at all. If you have questions post them in the thread so everyone can see the answers. I'm looking forward to putting the money into my skylark and then ditching the parts car soon so I can only have 2 cars. Thanks guys!
Re: Poor college student gauging interest in my Electra i think it would pay off huge if you replaced the distibutor. that way it would run well and there wouldnt be some tire kicker acting like there are maybe more problems. so you went to an HEI unit? and didnt run it off the points wire i hope. would a better housing alone solve the dist or has it messed up the shaft too? 2dr or 4dr? what color door panel?got a pic of the other side door panel? with the dist fixed and the door panel missing and needing a heater core 3k is a good price. no serious buyer should have a problem with that. throw it on ebay and open at 3k no res.
Re: Poor college student gauging interest in my Electra Need more info on the car. Year? color? Doors? Engine? Pics!!!
Sounds like a decent price if it isn't beat to snot. I paid less for mine and it's in need of alot of work. I could deffinetly see one that just needs some cleaning up going for $3k. Deffinetly put up some pics so we can see what you're selling.
Re: Poor college student gauging interest in my Electra There's also a mallory box that runs the ignition. I figure I could get the door panel for less than $100 and the heater is like $60 I think. Some time with it to get the water smell out and spruce it up would help I'm sure. The missfire is hardly noticeable. I just drove it every day on the freeway and it started bugging me a little. And I'm pretty anal about some things and I finally hunted it down and realized that I didn't want to put another couple hundred in and just bought a truck. I imagine the shaft is ok, but I'm not sure if the pickup is attached to the shaft or if you can remove it.
Re: Poor college student gauging interest in my Electra I doubt the shaft is worn. Those bushings will oval out and cause what you describe. I fought that with my Centurion last year for 3 months trying to find the cause. I replaced the distributor body and fixed the problem.
It's a 1973 Electra limited 225. 4 door. 455 with TCI THM400. Moderate shift kit. It will roast the tires all the way down the street, well, it used to until I bought some fancy ass tires anyways. It will still peel out for a good 40 feet though. (HONEST) :TU: There are some rust bubbles under the paint and the passenger side fender is dented. Here's some pics. I hope, we'll see if this works, they might be too large.
Here's a couple more, one with my 3 grungy buddies while doing the head gaskets on the old motor. Which blew up again 100 miles later, thus the need for a new motor.
Re: Poor college student gauging interest in my Electra But would I need to replace the shaft too if the pickup smashed itself? I wish I had a picture as it sounds really weird, but the "points" on the shaft side of the pickup smashed the "points" on the distributor side. They kinda furled over a little bit. I think of it as sorta having a spark plug with too big a gap.
