I have a 74 model stingray hardtop with numbers not matching. I came to you guys and I think yall can tell me what my best bet is for selling it or trading it. I took it to super chevy here in town over the weekend and I didnt get a single call.
Here is a little history. My car was originally red on red with an L82 engine, auto trans. There were a couple of owners before me including a young girl who blew up the motor. It was replaced with another motor and therfore now the numbers don't match. For all I know it may not even be the original trans. Sometime after the girl owned it a man painted it a dark mettalic maroon. The paint looked really good as I had seen the car a couple of times before I owned it. That same guy apparently dyed the red interior black, and replaced the original carpet with black. There are wear places on the interior where the red is showing through the black dye, and of course-red seatbelts.
I bought the car from another guy who was in a front end collision in it. It did not bend the frame but it pretty much broke everything up front. we were able to save the front bumper and the hood, and the lights. the rest of the glass came off in pieces. I paid $3000 for the wrecked but running car. We rebuilt everything that could possibly be built and had to buy a lot of new parts. I soldered the stock Brass? radiator. The car has a 350 that I don't know who built, but it has good HP and torque, good compression in all cylinders, edelbrock alum intake, and a 750 holley vacuum secondary. It has headers and dual flowmaster exhaust. The car is basically a hot rod with common vette problems. The windows are power but for some reason they dont really work good. They have enough power to lift the window a little bit, but then they just stop comming up. you have to help them. The T Top rubber doesn't leak but the window rubber is pretty much shot. The switches in the middle of the seats do not work. The outside drivers door handle does not work. The speedometer cables are not working, or are not hooked up. The tach does not work because the car now has an HEI distributor. I have an auto meter tach, oil pressure , and water temp hooked up and in it.
None of the stock guages worked to my knowledge. When I put the 1 piece aftermarket front end on the car I guess I did not do some things right becuase the hood is high on one side in the front and it does not latch. I took off the factory light vacuum system because the motor has such a big cam that they wouldn't work anyway. The stay up with the accuator's support but they dont work by the switch. They also do not line up right when closed in the body of the car. You know the first thing that people notice is the hood and lights. I also remeved the big thing that attches to the firewall that hooks up to all the heating and air components. I took all that out to. I knew hell would freeze over before I got the money to fix that!
Bottom line I just want to get rid of the car but this weeknd when I took it to the show it made me relize that it is going to be very hard to get rid of. I would like to trade it for another project vehicle and try this again but it seems that mine is just in too rough of shape. A lot of guys there told me that my best bet would be to get a young guy to buy it. They said that's probably where I would get the most for it. The aftermarket front end cost around $1100 and the paint was about $500, I painted it myself. I am a pro painter, so It's not a cheap looking job. The car is silver with blue flames.
It really is a nice car to the untrained eye but when someone that knows what they are looking at sees it, they turn away.
I just figured I would ask you guys because yall probably know my best bet for getting rid of it. I like vettes and all but I sure cant afford to buy the replacement parts, and besides I want a steel body car next time. I made the car like I was happy with it, for instance it really didn't bother me that the lights are a little low and the hood is high, on and on. All of the problems above can surely be fixed with a little money and time, but I am just burnt out on it. So I have about $4500 In the car, not counting my labor. Do you think that I will get that back out of it? Thank you for your replies and advice.
Here is a little history. My car was originally red on red with an L82 engine, auto trans. There were a couple of owners before me including a young girl who blew up the motor. It was replaced with another motor and therfore now the numbers don't match. For all I know it may not even be the original trans. Sometime after the girl owned it a man painted it a dark mettalic maroon. The paint looked really good as I had seen the car a couple of times before I owned it. That same guy apparently dyed the red interior black, and replaced the original carpet with black. There are wear places on the interior where the red is showing through the black dye, and of course-red seatbelts.
I bought the car from another guy who was in a front end collision in it. It did not bend the frame but it pretty much broke everything up front. we were able to save the front bumper and the hood, and the lights. the rest of the glass came off in pieces. I paid $3000 for the wrecked but running car. We rebuilt everything that could possibly be built and had to buy a lot of new parts. I soldered the stock Brass? radiator. The car has a 350 that I don't know who built, but it has good HP and torque, good compression in all cylinders, edelbrock alum intake, and a 750 holley vacuum secondary. It has headers and dual flowmaster exhaust. The car is basically a hot rod with common vette problems. The windows are power but for some reason they dont really work good. They have enough power to lift the window a little bit, but then they just stop comming up. you have to help them. The T Top rubber doesn't leak but the window rubber is pretty much shot. The switches in the middle of the seats do not work. The outside drivers door handle does not work. The speedometer cables are not working, or are not hooked up. The tach does not work because the car now has an HEI distributor. I have an auto meter tach, oil pressure , and water temp hooked up and in it.
None of the stock guages worked to my knowledge. When I put the 1 piece aftermarket front end on the car I guess I did not do some things right becuase the hood is high on one side in the front and it does not latch. I took off the factory light vacuum system because the motor has such a big cam that they wouldn't work anyway. The stay up with the accuator's support but they dont work by the switch. They also do not line up right when closed in the body of the car. You know the first thing that people notice is the hood and lights. I also remeved the big thing that attches to the firewall that hooks up to all the heating and air components. I took all that out to. I knew hell would freeze over before I got the money to fix that!
Bottom line I just want to get rid of the car but this weeknd when I took it to the show it made me relize that it is going to be very hard to get rid of. I would like to trade it for another project vehicle and try this again but it seems that mine is just in too rough of shape. A lot of guys there told me that my best bet would be to get a young guy to buy it. They said that's probably where I would get the most for it. The aftermarket front end cost around $1100 and the paint was about $500, I painted it myself. I am a pro painter, so It's not a cheap looking job. The car is silver with blue flames.
It really is a nice car to the untrained eye but when someone that knows what they are looking at sees it, they turn away.
I just figured I would ask you guys because yall probably know my best bet for getting rid of it. I like vettes and all but I sure cant afford to buy the replacement parts, and besides I want a steel body car next time. I made the car like I was happy with it, for instance it really didn't bother me that the lights are a little low and the hood is high, on and on. All of the problems above can surely be fixed with a little money and time, but I am just burnt out on it. So I have about $4500 In the car, not counting my labor. Do you think that I will get that back out of it? Thank you for your replies and advice.
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