SAS Cabriolet 356 Speedster - Inspection

Well done ... Very complete and thorough eval!  Steve apparently got an "C" in levers and cranks.  Thant hand brake is an Egyptian engineering feat. Can't believe the windshield is vented and about to depart the car.  Grease zerks on the anti-sway bar poly bushings - in only 3200 miles --- ME thinks a replaced Chinese Speedo? 

Very thorough inspection, Daniel. Certainly no comparison between your builds and SAS! 

Does this car show any signs of an accident? Hard to believe it was professionally built.

Great job Danial, You may have saved someones life not to mention their money!

Proof read! 

I've been a long-time critic of SAS, their business practices, and their delivered product.  I have spent the last three years undoing poor engineering, faulty mechanicals, and dangerous design flaws.  I'm glad an independent observer, with industry skills, knowledge, and experience, agrees with my assessment of the poor quality of SAS cars.  With a 2-man shop, only building one car every two years, there's absolutely no excuse for the shoddy workmanship Daniel's inspection showed.  Poor design, poor execution, and cheap materials equals a poor product.

To add salt to the wound, SAS has established a new record: the top two placeholders in the SAS queue are beginning their eleventh year of waiting, after each paying $17,000 for deposits.  Is this a great country or what? 

In general, criminal fraud laws need to be strengthened, and bankruptcy trustees/examiners need to stop rubber-stamping debtors' claims. My 2c.

I must be lucky.  The only complaint about mine is the paint job.  But then...  Mine's also a lot newer.

Wow.

I don't think I have ever seen such a case of "good from 25" which is strange since I was also under the impression that SAS rarely delivered a car but when they did it was sound. People have said if you can buy one used, go for it but never expect to see it if you order new. This shows it's not the case at all; so many major issues but I also see a degree of ignorance and or lying on behalf of the current owner.

What a piece of sh*t.

Gotta laugh that guy said he put $300 into servicing it for the sale - explains the chassis grease leaking out of the rotted rubber boots.  For a 10 year old car it might pass for good - and go for $16k.

After hearing his response to Tom, It would be fun to bombard this guy with emails, telling him what we think of his car!

I must have missed his response to Tom. What happened there?

That car makes my CMC look like a cream puff! I'm amazed at the level of surface rust on that car after just 3200 miles.

Ted, your CMC is a cream puff!  

All this cream puff talk, I'm hungry now!

I now know I can get 20k for my incomplete CMC "cream puff" widebody. Just imagine if I get around to finishing it.  Just $300 into selling prep and I'm ready to go!!!
-=theron

The windshield not fitting in the frame was kind of the cherry on top.

That was kinda gross, wasn't it?

There's a buyer for that car.  Maybe not on this site, but many people would not notice all the little defects, and would get the engine tuned up and the windshield fastened.

Obviously, the seller was happy with it.  He just needs to find someone much like himself for a buyer. 

I'm thinking this was bought as a kit, then assembled.

My SAS doesn't have any of the issues that this one has, other than a sloppy paint job on one of the windshield frames.

I believe that SAS never sold any "kits", only completed cars.

Even if SAS sold kits, which they don't, you'd have to put down a considerable about of money and then it'd never get delivered. Just like the real deal.