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70k? I've got a Florida water front lot the buyer can build a garage on,(gators not included) cheap!
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It may be in rough shape for a show car, but as a race car with documented history the price is probably not out of line..There is a guy locally that has an original Speedster that he paid $225k for, crazy I know but thats why we are "Driving" replicas, and not storing garage queens.
Simon, I'm the last guy to nick someone's car ... but that thing looks like someone's just tired of pushing it around a shop.
I'm pretty willing to bet there's very little left to that car, really. I'd say maybe the inevitable buyer would buy it JUST to run it.
I like the paint and mechanicals, but I'd treat the wind deflector and innards much differently.
I'm pretty willing to bet there's very little left to that car, really. I'd say maybe the inevitable buyer would buy it JUST to run it.
I like the paint and mechanicals, but I'd treat the wind deflector and innards much differently.
Sorry Simon, I just can't get excited over car that has been modified and modified to the degree this one has. Lacks the original body and what's left probably don't even have matching numbers. I've seen other "race" cars more appealing to the eye as well as the wallet. This one in my opinion is nothing more than backyard project that may have won some races but other than hearsay as nothing really notable about it. 70K? For that price one could have most any make replica fitted with a type IV, Subaru or even six cylinder Porsche engine that would suck up that POS and spit it out and win SCCA/Sprint races. Just googled George Frey, not a lot about him but he did win a 1964 SCCA race in a Porsche.
ps: Car was once listed on BRING A TRAILER for 85k.
ps: Car was once listed on BRING A TRAILER for 85k.
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Looks like a pile to me...
I had a go-around with the boys at the 356 Register Forum over this car. Essentially posting that this was an old 356 scuttle section with a lot of fiberglass hung on it and a race history, very little else. Definitely not a genuine 356 and not deserving of that kind of coin.
I pointed out that yet another race car could well be built out of the steel front clip that was removed in favor of fiberglass, and a third from the steel rear clip. A fourth "special" might even be successfully fashioned from the original undercarriage and a Devlin-style body, as long as the fiberglass body was of genuine 60's manufacture.
It takes very little to bodge together a car for "racing" and just a few years to establish a provenance. Add in a little, "I believe, though I may be incorrect . . . " and some old Xeroxed pictures of a similar car, "In the paddock area." and you're looking at a good deal of coin for a four year investment in chicanery. As long as you don't get greedy or stupid and the car(s) actually run well, you can slather on very nice profit with a few words and some wheel time.
I've stumbled onto three used up 356's in six years or so, at less than $1,000 per car. Each could have been cut unto three parts with nine race cars being built largely from spare parts. Selling them at only $20,000 plus each, that's a $200.000 return on my three grand investment in just six years, and that's sort of a bottom line.
Just sayin'
I pointed out that yet another race car could well be built out of the steel front clip that was removed in favor of fiberglass, and a third from the steel rear clip. A fourth "special" might even be successfully fashioned from the original undercarriage and a Devlin-style body, as long as the fiberglass body was of genuine 60's manufacture.
It takes very little to bodge together a car for "racing" and just a few years to establish a provenance. Add in a little, "I believe, though I may be incorrect . . . " and some old Xeroxed pictures of a similar car, "In the paddock area." and you're looking at a good deal of coin for a four year investment in chicanery. As long as you don't get greedy or stupid and the car(s) actually run well, you can slather on very nice profit with a few words and some wheel time.
I've stumbled onto three used up 356's in six years or so, at less than $1,000 per car. Each could have been cut unto three parts with nine race cars being built largely from spare parts. Selling them at only $20,000 plus each, that's a $200.000 return on my three grand investment in just six years, and that's sort of a bottom line.
Just sayin'