lipstick on a pig
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From: El Sobrante CA
"not so sure I would bother going to look at a car when the guy puts together sentences like that"
If a seller (of anything) isn't interested enough to create a proper advert built on actual comprehensible English, using an actual computer - not a glorified pocket dictation/texting toy - I ain't interested either.
Period.
If a seller (of anything) isn't interested enough to create a proper advert built on actual comprehensible English, using an actual computer - not a glorified pocket dictation/texting toy - I ain't interested either.
Period.
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From: El Sobrante CA
I consider myself very lucky to have found a matching numbers L48 with zero rust for $ 3500. I was able to drive it home too. This kind of thing doesn't happen very often I'm sure. It is an Arizona car so there was no rust anywhere. The sun cooking the interior is another story.
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Rare ,,, 5 or 6 k ranges are cars that need work .. Usually quite a bit of it.
Your not going to get a daily driver on the low price ranges and as a fact a mid to moderate priced car usually has a lot of the expensive work done to it and those are usually the best deals.
Nothing to stop ya from looking at lower priced cars but be aware to expect to get what you pay for.
Your not going to get a daily driver on the low price ranges and as a fact a mid to moderate priced car usually has a lot of the expensive work done to it and those are usually the best deals.
Nothing to stop ya from looking at lower priced cars but be aware to expect to get what you pay for.
Elderly, rust-rotten vehicles are likely more in abundance in cold/wet/snowy climes than - say deserts, and the South West. Vehicles who've spent the majority of their service lives driven hard and put away 'wet' are more likely to be pretty shot when the 'For Sale' sign goes up.
So - maybe in some cases, that $3500 deal really IS one. And I mean, daily driver material needing the usual fixes over time. Or not. But I wouldn't make a blanket statement either way, because - with so many C3s having been made - exceptions are everywhere.
YMMV.
