74 L48 / 4 sp. prices
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74 L48 / 4 sp. prices
I have a C2 and a freind has asked me to look at a Yellow '74 4 speed with L48 on the hood. T-tops. I'm asking here because I don't know a lot about C3's. I'll check the usual spots that are problems common to both (frame, body / paint issues, birdcage) The asking is 17K and, checking C3 ads here, I see a BB for 21K and another nice sounding car for 18. Also see some 73's a bit less and some quite a bit more. I know it's condition, condition, condition. This cars is supposedly "restored" by a chev. dealer mechanic. 75,000 mi..
If it's clean and original, hows the price sound? Needs AC work, but that's a couple hundred at the worst (if all the parts are there, but I gotta wonder why a dealer mechanic wouldn't have fixed that at his cost....)
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Daffy
Sorry, just noticed that I probably posted in the wrong forum, I'll add it in the general forum, but still, any help appreciated
If it's clean and original, hows the price sound? Needs AC work, but that's a couple hundred at the worst (if all the parts are there, but I gotta wonder why a dealer mechanic wouldn't have fixed that at his cost....)
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Daffy
Sorry, just noticed that I probably posted in the wrong forum, I'll add it in the general forum, but still, any help appreciated
Last edited by Daffy2; May 31, 2005 at 10:44 PM.
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I just bought my 77 project car. I dragged it from a farmers field. After inspections before and after the purchase, I would recommend you take a close look at the trailing arms for rust. Luckily, the previous owner let me check the frame with a hammer before I bought it, looks good. I just had to evict all the mice!
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Good to see a WI poster, I'm from Chippewa Falls originally, just transplanted down to Iowa for school.
For a 4 speed, rubber bumper car that is a low hp engine to boot, that car ought to be immaculate at $17,000...I'd look for all numbers matching (or at least get the parts back if not currently installed) very good to excellent paint, and see if the car that could be gotten into and driven across the country and back. I'd also ask for all previous paperwork that the owner has and find all that one could on any older paperwork. Before one drops that much, I'd do a lot of homework on it. And at that price, I think your friend will definitely have time to think about it and find everything about it that he needs.
Bring a corvette black book when you look at it, run the easy numbers initially.
just my humble opinion,
trw
For a 4 speed, rubber bumper car that is a low hp engine to boot, that car ought to be immaculate at $17,000...I'd look for all numbers matching (or at least get the parts back if not currently installed) very good to excellent paint, and see if the car that could be gotten into and driven across the country and back. I'd also ask for all previous paperwork that the owner has and find all that one could on any older paperwork. Before one drops that much, I'd do a lot of homework on it. And at that price, I think your friend will definitely have time to think about it and find everything about it that he needs.
Bring a corvette black book when you look at it, run the easy numbers initially.
just my humble opinion,
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Just a thought, you mentioned the A/C being broke...why would anyone want a sports car w/ AIR CONDITIONING!? I live in the South where it probably gets a little warmer than your location, and I removed the drag, stored it under the house and don't ever plan on re-installing it. I bought a 81, 3 or 4 years ago and have been upgrading it ever since. Being out of a job has allowed me the time to do most of the work, but just in parts plus intial low purchase, this car has cost me $12k plus. So if you can get a GOOD, TIGHT, 74 for $17000, that sounds ok to me. I believe the 74s have more value than 81s,
....but did you say it was YELLOW? That color is bad luck
, for me. I went over the side of a mountain in my 68 Yellow Vette....we parted company about half way down....but I had only gotten it out of the body shop less than an hour before...from an earlier accident where a jeep ran into me....beware of that COLOR! 
good luck, jim
....but did you say it was YELLOW? That color is bad luck
, for me. I went over the side of a mountain in my 68 Yellow Vette....we parted company about half way down....but I had only gotten it out of the body shop less than an hour before...from an earlier accident where a jeep ran into me....beware of that COLOR! good luck, jim
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Originally Posted by jimbow
Just a thought, you mentioned the A/C being broke...why would anyone want a sports car w/ AIR CONDITIONING!?
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Originally Posted by jimbow
...why would anyone want a sports car w/ AIR CONDITIONING!?...
$17K seems off the mark to me, but the market varies in different parts of the country. I would want a very original car for my $17K. Good luck.
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'74 price
Looked at it and drove it. Drives right, too loud with bad glasspacks, but the entire exhaust is like new. The bitch is louder than my sidepipe '64 (in the car!). Overall condition is real good and unmolested (except for the exhaust), frame is like new except for a poor choice of shiny black on the frame. The body paint is real good driver, but not show. No evidence of the dreaded round tumors in front of the hood that indicates a need to redo that area. Headlights (vacuum system) work good. Hard to adjust to the crappy stock shifter compared to my Hurst, but shifting and clutch OK. Only things not working are the air and the horn. All wiring is stock, no Bubba.
Bottom line, I shared yours and mines concerns about the $$, but they gotta make the choice.
I also did a short course on "don't fall in love with the first car that makes you hot, take your time, do you want something that will appreciate or just WANT this car". Probably fell on deaf ears.
In any event, they can't get hurt by more than 4 grand on the car, thought I pointed out that the same money spent on a BB early '70 4-speed might be worth 15K extra in a few years.
Thanks for the help, we did all we could.
Daffy
Bottom line, I shared yours and mines concerns about the $$, but they gotta make the choice.
I also did a short course on "don't fall in love with the first car that makes you hot, take your time, do you want something that will appreciate or just WANT this car". Probably fell on deaf ears.
In any event, they can't get hurt by more than 4 grand on the car, thought I pointed out that the same money spent on a BB early '70 4-speed might be worth 15K extra in a few years.
Thanks for the help, we did all we could.
Daffy
(Unless the car is NCRS or close to it)