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http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/DesktopDefault.aspx?UsedCarID=391004&TabID=3328&Alias=carpointau

The car may not be your or my cup of tea, but I bet it has cost him more than the asking price to build.  These days you can spend nearly this amount on restoring a stock car, if you do all the detail work and want a concourse finish.

However, I wish him well in getting a sale, and maybe the buyer will join our club, so we can all get to check it out.

Cheers, Geoff_K

Do the Math...   ...( These are guess-timates )

- Weld Wheels and Mickey Thomson Tyres $2500
- V8 Chev recond $3000
- Powerglide $2000
- Ford 9" Diff, Disc to Disc and recond $1500
- B&M Shifter $500
- NoS $1000
- Chassis kit for V8 conversion $500
- HR Front End to hold V8 $ 500
- Paint to show condition $8000
- Re-trimmed Interior $2000
-Re-Chroming and Polishing $1000
- New Rubber Kit $1000
- New Wiring Harness $500
- Misc Bits & Pieces $500

That brings you up to around $22000

Then add the price of the car itself, which was probably a fair condition road registered FC.....$3000

That's $25000

Then add in the countless hours of restoration.....$ Priceless !

I'd say if he got $30 000, he'd be barely breaking even !

But that's just my personal opinion !

( ps )...no, I don't know the owner or the car.....

Mark

I agree with Geoff, there's clearly been serious cash spent on that car.  You never get your money back on a modified, I think that's a fact of life.

Having said that, my ol' Faecal was fully rebuilt and trimmed once upon a time, has been engineered, has a 2 speed powerglide, and a fairly big stereo.  That's about half the features listed of this beast, and you can have her for $15,000.  How's that for a bargain? ;D

cheers
RET

RET...if you paint the little gold flames on the the front guards like the Chev, you will probably get the $15000 !

Good luck.

Mark

Yeah the price tag dont take long to get there, thats the joy of restoring car's know you will always have some where for that last $20 that you had spare on pay day. ;)

Cheers
Sarge

Ret,
I've done my sums and i will take your car but i only need it to have a 10000th of what the modified car has so i only owe you $3.00. then again if you only give me 100000th as much then i only owe 30 cents. then again if you only give me 1000000 I will only owe you 3 cents. then again "no not again" I must stop this obsession and get a life !
Rgds
Mick

MICK , Stop Drinking and Ill give you 30 cents......

Its not worth it for 30 cents Slim. I'll do it for a buck!

Ret
    I will give you $6.00 then you have made double.

Mick
    I will give you $30.00 for a bottle of what ever it is your on.


Cheers
Sarge

Sarge,
You have started me going again. If you are prepared to pay $6.00 for Ret's car, are you then expecting Ret to give you 20000th of the Modified FC if you want to better my offer buy want to save money why dont you take it for $4.50 then you save A1.50 and still get 14999.99th, then again if you offered Ret $3.01 which is a cent higher than my offer you still get 0.000903th but then i might increase my bid to $3.02 then i get 0.000906th but "Sorry i must go the doctor is putting this realy tight jacket on me"
Rgds
Mick

i dont think hes been drinkin more like smokin  ;D ;D ;D

My Question is where do you get it. This stuff might help me  understand the post in the first place and then I may just have half an idea of what it is that his selling or I am buying in the second place and thirdly how much do I get for $4.54 or just round it off at $4.55. Well I better go know as if the offer is accepted then I got to work out how many hours work I must do to cover the cost of obtaining some of this drink, smoke or what ever it is and then I have to work out how many hours I have to work to buy what ever I think I have just agreed to buy.
So Mick what was the Question again. ;)

Cheers
Sarge (I think)

the difference between sarge and kermit


kermit was actually funny

Bite me you little round flightless bird. I was talking to Ret and Mick, I think.

Sarge

P.S the difference between an Austalian Flightless Bird and a New Zealand Flightless Bird.

Emu:- Topic HILDA'S EXTREME MAKE OVER.
Update on Topic:- Restoration of Hilda 80% complete.

Kiwi:- Kiwi EXTREME MAKE OVER CHALLENGE.
Update on Topic:- Kiwi Has purchased Car and washed this FC only to put it back in shed and SURRENDERED

Back in your box OH LEGGLESS ONE.

its not about speed its about A QUALITY JOB something that i should teach ewe
as ed a fellow memeber says
slowly the bird build his quality nest
dont see him saying
quickly a bodgy job is done ;D ;D ;D




BITE ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarge,
Being serious for a moment do you want me to work out the difference you will get between $4.54 and $4.55 I should i just lay down and let the medicine take it's course
Rgds
Mick

Micks been Drinkin and SMOKIN again... You forgot to get your 30 cents , Thats it isnt it....

Mick that would be great.

Thanks
Sarge

good evening to all, on the subject of cash, take it from me, if you intend to spend $25,000.00 plus on an fe/fc, you do it for yourself, then you die with the sucker still in your possession. i know, i stopped counting at $35,000.00, and i would be a fool to even try and expect half that back.
but, then again, it is a one off, its how i wanted it, its a neck breaker and i love it.
to the extent that i have gotten rid of my daily ride and use the ute.(must find a 2nd job to pay for the fuel now, heh heh)
if youre in melb and you see propig rumble past, toot, wave, even pull me over, have a chat, all welcome

brett
(propig2003) ;D

Well, Brett, you've whetted our curiosity (yes, that's correct spelling)  Show us some pics.  There's a Member's cars gallery waiting for you.

Martin

Hey Martin.
You must have missed it. To see Brett's ute, check out this post.
http://www.fefcholden.org.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=otherimg;action=display;num=1093854605
BTW, very nice car Brett.
Regards
Alex

Thanks, Alex.  I did miss it.

Mean machine, Brett.  Makes me want to buy shares in tyre manufacturers!

Martin

hey think ill push my one owner hd standard  sedaN UP TO ABOUT 15,000 WELl AND SIT AND SEE IF I CAN SELL it  FOR THAT, WOW WISH ME LUCK GUYS  :P

my theory is the older the car, the more it is worth modyfying, and the newer it is the better it is to keep it standard.
if I had a dollar for everytime someone told me my car would be worth a mint if it was all original I would be a millionare.
next time you are looking at cars for sale compare modified versions to standard.
A 2003 corolla or pulsar with a fully sick exhuast, subwoofers, lowered, mags, pod air filter etc. will be lucky to get any more than a grand less than your nannas stocker, on the other end of the scale if you take a look at cars around 70 years old, unless they are some rare limited production exotic, they seem to fetch four to five times the amount of stockers in the same model, I agree that if you are going to do so much work to a car that it's only worth doing it if your keeping it till the end.
I once had a friend with a FC sedan that he hotted up when he was young and then spent a fortune restoring it when he got older, having original vinyl recoloured by a place in victoria several times till he was sure it was the same as day one, rechroming all the badges, grill and bars, taxi rail, air cheif, nasco everything, start adding up the sums now, the colours were then matched to factory on everything and the body painted. the end result was a car that looked like the next stocker in line at car shows but with different colours.
Dont forget, a good running efi 5 litre V8, or a rebuilt hot red costs around the same as rebuilding a standard grey. and you can now get a CD/mp3/DVD player for about the same money as a air cheif radio, a four speed for less than the price of a crasher, and it is cheeper to weld up the badge and trim holes than fetch good trim and rechrome the badges. I bet there are resto jobs out there that cost the same or more that would pull less money than this modified.

Geesh ? ? ?
    Then that must make mine worth a FORTUNE , cos the only thing on mine that is FC is the body & diff , everything else is modified , even down to the modified FE grill
Mmmmm   Open to offers with plenty of " 000000's"
    ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
  (just kidding)

  Norm  :)

I'll give you $1000. 0000000000000000 then Norm. ;)
(and I'm not kidding) :D
It's good to see you are back on deck!

Must have been a real good car SOLD b4 i had a chance to look

Hey Shayne
 the 00000 are the "wrong side of the > . <  Maaate  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 (thanks mate , great to be back & gettin' better every day)

   Norm

Hey Norm, did you mean $0000000001000.00??????
Matt  ;D

Mmmm , Errrr ,  Uuummm ,  Matt ,  
      00000     are gettin in the right area , just the "1" is in the wrong place ,   hahaha

  Norm  :)

(Geesh , I better keep my mouth shut , or fingers off the K/Board  ;D  :o )

It's baa  aack!
The original link at the start of the thread said that the car sold.
Here it is again -
http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/DesktopDefault.aspx?UsedCarID=580816&TabID=200372&Alias=carpointau

You'd think if you are selling a car for 30,000 "smacks on the bum" you'd give out a few more details.

This car is featured in the latest article of Australian Street Rodding.

plenty of details in there.

no price comment from me, I think this car is TUFF!