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Eddie,
Yes
and no, if I recall correctly.
I had
bought a Cherokee for $1400 and sold it for $3000 two days later without even
cleaning it.
I took
$2500 of that money and bought the Javelin. And since $1600 was 'profit' on the
Jeep, I
only out $900 of my own 'earned' money. I then dumped about $1500
worth of long-sought-and-
hoarded bits and pieces into it to make the interior near-mint. More was
spent on other details...
shocks, whels, twin-grip rear, AMX grillework...etc. When sold, I had
about $2500 of real money
in the
car (none of this accounts for the prior owner's investments..$4500 on the
engine alone,
new
paint, new top, new upholstery, carpet...he dumped a mint in it). I sold it to
the first person
that
bought hard cash in a reasonable amount....by today's standards a 'mere' $3500.
Nowadays,
you
get a rusty project for that much.
The
eBayer may not be the guy I sold it to. I emailed *my* buyer to ask if he'd sold
it after I
sold
it to him...no answer and no bounced mail...so who knows.
And
absolutely, by parting that car, he threw away thousands. That car, complete as
I sold it,
would
today easily top the $7500 I just got for my 360 Hornet. Dare I say, it would be
a $10k car
easily. especially to someone that looked hard at the motor and knew his
stuff. Se the atached
photo
for an inside view with the intake off. This was no 'all show, no go'
car...everything was top-
drawer.
I've
parted my share of cars other would have said were 'savable'....but none were
clean runners
like
this car. All were total resto projects...for folks with GOBS of cash to sink in
them. When I
tried
to sell them whole, nobody wanted them for what I knew were fair values...so
they got parted.
Yea, I
could sold 'em whole cheaper..but that buyer would have been the one to part
them for the
bucks.
Had that happen once...won't do it again.
John W Rosa
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