Man, this guy has a story to tell. Great starting point for those willing/able to sort the issues.
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If a buyer has the abilities to disassemble it, start from square one with newer parts and know what you have .
Sounds just like JPC's experience but his was red. This one's blue. They even both bitch about the brake fluid reservoir.
Makes me tired just reading it.
$16, 999 is about what the parts would cost now. For $10-12k one could do a lot of sorting it out. Paint does look great!
It's is JPC. He's been running a Craigslist ad for several months now.
I don't have an explanation for the Red vs Blue car, but there's no question that it's John Cable who posts here as JPC.
I would totally rebuild it, but I don't think the seller really wants to unload it. They don't respond to any contact. Seems like they just want bad publicity for Vintage Scottsdale.
-=theron
@Theron posted:I would totally rebuild it, but I don't think the seller really wants to unload it. They don't respond to any contact. Seems like they just want bad publicity for Vintage Scottsdale.
-=theron
Bingo.
The image of the blue car appears to be a stock photo. So yeah same guy, same list of complaints, and same prose.
What a dolt.
As I’ve mentioned a few times, I believe my early Beck kit was assembled by a guy that lived next to a Home Depot. After I bought it, I drove 50-60 miles to Special Editions and had the boys give it the once over, make me a tonneau, install my Speedster windscreen, and adjust the Jamar shifter, before I drove home to NYC.
That got my home to NY, but on the way the shifter got out of adjustment again, then broke. Luckily fixed with a small screwdriver to replace the set screw that had fallen out of the linkage.
For reasons beyond my control, it pretty much sat for two years until I retired, and I dropped it off at SE again to have the work I really couldn’t do done by the pros.
Ever since I got the car home, it’s been a constant process of De-Home Depoting it, replacing all the plumbing and cabinet hardware with automotive grade 8 and SS stuff.
I went into plastic clown car ownership WANTING a 1:1 scale model that I could tinker with and drive. And I got just what I wanted.
I think people who buy these cars expecting a refined, finished product are naive. When you say you want “the authentic Speedster/Spyder experience” you have to accept that this IS the authentic speedster/Spyder experience. Constant tinkering, modifying, adjusting, and repairing.
If that’s not what your after, you’re better off with a Miata or a Z3.
Or a Boxster.
