maybe this is the custom for bats..

im not sure he only wants 10K for it.. it must be a good deal, right?

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/1614979550.html

 

Why would you do something like that on a '68?

 

If anyone is interested in it, I can go by and look at it for you. mds...

 

You guys do look out fo me dont cha....



Needs a full restoration....
Poor car ran when it was parked a couple decades ago...sadly not a convertible but a great start for a Wide body which I do love but....I pass up on wide bodies all the time...right now with the cool economy a savvy shopper can get a sweet rocking wide body for that price but I guess we all have our dreams and that sellers dreams are pretty darn big....

 

Thats impressive. It doesnt even run, yet still makes more than 390 horsepower.

 

Yeah Man...dont be a choosing him off at the stop light...

I loose prety much all respect when ads start on long spews of dreams....like how much something with be worth finished....

 

I wonder if that's the car that was posted a while back. It was in a picture with a model and it looked like it was shot in the 80's.

 

 

WHY ?

 

From the looks of the rear flares that is the early ecklers/greenwood kit,
Many times in the early mid 70's before the numbers matching sheep in the flock trend kicked in people actually wanted their vette to be a personlized thing,.. ..okay enough of the shameless poke at purists in good fun...most times kits like that were done when the selling price for the car was less than 3K runner driver....

No one knew that in 72 a stock BB 68 would be all sought after....

 

I have to say that the wide body kits have grown on me.....a little.......sort of like moss or a fungus. I wouldn't go and hack up a perfectly good 68 by any means, but with the right paint job, that COULD be a cool looking car. Could be. If you drop another 20K into it for a restoration. Maybe if it had a paint scheme like Panic's, I dunno. $10k seems a bit much for a car that has sat for 20 years though. For $4-5K, maaaaaybe. But you just KNOW that there is a boatload of stuff that will have to be changed on it. And I don't imagine that the motor has been done any favors. Doesn't the acid in the oil just wreak havoc on the bearings and internals when they sit for so long??

Deja

 

not sure about that one!!!!

 

It needs a story (or excuse) to help sell it. I hope it has not been setting outside for the last eighteen years although it looks like it. I remember when these cars were the dream cars for many back in the 70’s.

 

"...The car is worth some money if you have time to restore it..."

Sez who?

 

Why is everyone missing that times change...when that car was modded a stock 68 was a very dull boring idea, the wide body was wild and cool...if I had a wide body built on a chrome bumper car I would want it to keep the chrome bumpers...those are hot!

That car is a mess...a basket case...I see runner driver wide bodies for that price a fair amount....

LOL...look at it this way of that was a documented Motion car it would even in that condition be worth about 100K but Motion didn't do too many wide bodies...just the super shark and Spyders....

 

Being a road race fan, I like the "Can Am" body kits. These came out around 75, when John Greenwood was racing his Vette in IMSA, with similar body work.

Ecklers did the kits for the street and they were quite popular. From 75 to 85, you couldn't go to a Corvette show in NJ, eastern PA, NY area and not see at least one of those. There were a number of very well done wide bodies, in the northeast, back then.

 

Just out of morbid curiosity, I contacted the seller to get more info on it. He sent this photo taken some years ago, and this...



"It is a long story, but it has the same oil so it is going to take me a little bit of time to get it running, Before we do that all the oil and gasoline are going to be replace, but we will get it running. The driver side window was left open so the recaro seat on that side need to be reupholster, they stole the radio so the middle panel is off. Because of the weather I have not done nothing to it to make presentable, but once the weather is agreeable, we will start working with the car body and engine. I have a before picture for now, so you can see it the way it was, there are better paints out there in the market now and I wish I had the time to restore this car. Thanks for looking."

"Forgot to answer your last question. No I don't mind your friend come and see the car. The price of the car is firm for now, I just place the ad last night; what is going to make it hard is during those times I spend close to 30,000.00 to restore the car. I have friends who want the car but like I said in a way I am checking the market out there. One thing for sure it is one of kind, Thanks for your time."

So there you have it.

Deja

 

.... the "driver's side window was left open"!!!! No one thought/bothered to wind it up in ALL those years??????
Regards,
Alan

" Honey, on Saturday, if you get a chance, please go out and wind up the window in the Corvette."

 

"It is a long story, but it has the same oil so it is going to take me a little bit of time to get it running, Before we do that all the oil and gasoline are going to be replace, So there you have it.

Deja[/QUOTE]

Throwing in a free oil change and a tank of gas to sweeten the deal.

 

worth "some money"-- some money = 5 bucks. That's a little high, though