Testing waters

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Reply #30 – May 09, 2012, 02:47:42 PM

A californa car is worth more in my opinion. There just isn't as much humuduty, it stays dry, and there is almost always little to no rust. I'd pay $1000 for a california or arizona car in the same condition as a $500 utah car.

I think you can get $3k out of it, but like I said, you might have to sit on it and find the right buyer. With good paint, and low miles, i'd pay $1500-2k as it sits without thinking about it. $3k would be a decent price I think. Might go for $4k if it was a v-8.

I'd fix it up how you like it. Drop a fuel injected v-8 in it, do the h.o. stuff to it, have a decent looking car that you'll love. In 5 or 10 years it might be worth double that with low miles.

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Reply #31 – May 09, 2012, 03:44:34 PM

Quote from: Haystack;389464

a small novel

See that's what I mean. It must just be my location. They must really be common out there in the SW. You say you see 3-5 in your yards, and 87IROC was always coming on here with dozens of JY finds when he was out in Vegas as well. The only foxes I see at the yards anymore are at 1 yard out of my local 5. he has 3. And that's bc he doesn't crush. He's had the first two for 2 years. I don't see them in the yards, on the street, or for sale. I guess they're just rare here and that's why I would be willing to spend more on one. In fact to be perfectly honest, they're so rare around here that I didn't even know these cars EXISTED until I go the chance to buy mine. Granted I was 19 and not paying the utmost amount of attention but still you tend to notice things like that when there's a bunch around.

But back to what firsbird is talking about, there's quite a bit of work involved in properly converting your 87 V6 to a V8 car. If you had a v8 car it wouldn't be quite as bad, but if you've already got a motor and trans, then you should probably go for it. You'll definitely enjoy it. But again, if you do decide to ditch it, well since the market is apparently completely different there than what it is here, I can't really say what it's "worth", but what I do know is don't settle for less than you want for it. That is truly what its worth.:)

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Reply #32 – May 09, 2012, 04:33:20 PM

Quote from: FirstBird;389460

I have a set of chrome turbines I guess i''ll throw on it and maybe take some better pictures and see how things go.

Chrome turbines? you got picks of them? Got to see a pick.

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Reply #33 – May 09, 2012, 06:15:30 PM

i don't see why you cant get 3 g's for it looks real nice, but like every one said your guna have to sit on it for a while people don't appreciate birds and it makes em harder to sell my brother thinks they're worth maybe 1000-1500 tops for a 3.8

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Reply #34 – May 09, 2012, 06:43:23 PM

the inlays are painted black and i painted the caps black because they were beat up.

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Reply #35 – May 09, 2012, 08:48:22 PM

[thread=33693]This is the trans you need to put behind that 351[/thread]

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Reply #36 – May 10, 2012, 01:05:45 AM

Maybe if i was building a race car... atm I just want to spank "fresh" Honda's around.

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Reply #37 – May 10, 2012, 12:05:56 PM

Quote from: FirstBird;389522

the inlays are painted black and i painted the caps black because they were beat up.

That really looks pretty good. I would get the exess paint off the vains, and use a small artist brush and put some chrome paint in the Ford logo.

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Reply #38 – May 10, 2012, 01:14:22 PM

you can polish turbines too and they'll look pretty close to that. Send some to Vinnie. He loves polishing aluminum:giggle:

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Reply #39 – May 10, 2012, 03:35:29 PM

Yeah the excess is when i got a can of plastidip and painted them black as you can see in my sig pic. I was originally going to polish some turbines but there are way to many little crevices. And i got these for $80