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auburnseeker

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  1. I've used Dave (rustytinman) here on the forums and Bills Autoworks, multiple times and have been very happy with their service. Always my first choice when I'm buying a new toy.
  2. Do you have more photos? I could only find the one on that site. Sorry realized I had to click the second link.
  3. First green old vehicle I have had in a long time.
  4. The small guys I have dealt with do. I used passport transport for an inop coast to coast and they had a winch as well and my car was way in the front of the tractor trailer. They had a way to winch it out as well as in. They were good to deal with coast to coast. I have used rustytinman and Bills autoworks on the forum for hauls since, but they were more east coast or mid country east hauls. I always check with them first, but coast to coast hauls are harder for small guys as they have to make the connections to make it reasonable. Often the connections aren't there to make it work, but it's worth a shot, especially if you have a pretty loose time frame. I will say that both of them are great guys and let you know exactly when they can do it, if they can and they let you know when it's being picked up and drop it off exactly when they say as well as handle everything carefully. Rusty tin man dropped this off for me last fall.
  5. The problem with open , especially being a roadster is the interior is going to get soaked. Hard to get across the country, especially in the spring without hitting rain. I think not only about the rain from the sky, but the spray from the tow vehicle as well.
  6. I agree with Alsancle. 15-20 should be a realistic selling range. Bonus is the paint still looks good and not all cracked or falling off so that should help. Hopefully whoever buys it kind of gets it up and going just as it is. Flaws/ patina are much more acceptable on old original style hot rods. This one shows it was well taken care of over the years and not beat to death then left to the elements.
  7. Hard to say. 4 grand more buys you a turn key one with god paint chrome and interior. Like all A's money spent up front is a wise investment. Not saying it won't sell, but as a potential buyer lots to think about. Non running is a biggy. 4 tubes and tires $1000.
  8. It's actually not a pickup but a cut down sedan of some sort but they actually used a real pickup bed. That said I have seen worse conversions. Might have even been cut down from a sedan delivery by the looks of the blank quarter windows.
  9. Maybe the nephew decided he needed his cut for selling. Seemed like a good deal now not so much as it will have more competition with other 50's convertibles in the market. Probably not may buyers looking for this particular car and just a 50's cruiser in general.
  10. If that is in USD, there are running driving trucks that don't look terrible for the same price. With some looking really nice ones can be had for not alot more. Model A's are one of those vehicles you buy the best you can afford and do some looking as most aren't particularly rare to find for sale. Every dollar spent on the front end, is multiplied, often by many times on the tail end. Model A needing paint, for 10 or so, one with nice paint for 2 grand more. Usually with that comes alot of other better things as well. Parts aren't particularly expensive or hard to find, but they are much cheaper when the guy before you bought them.
  11. Too bad it wasn't something i was interested in. That's only about a half hour away. Seems all the cars I want are on the other coast.
  12. The Bonya tree behind the caddy with the Spanish moss I don't think is quite invasive enough to make it to Montana but I could be wrong.
  13. No the days aren't over. Pretty sure it's a scam. Looks at the Caddy he is selling and the background. Sure doesn't look like Montana. I casually look at and keep tabs on vettes. 40 usually buys you a rough possibly driveable C1.
  14. Dual drown drafts they would need a fuel pump. Being it's got an Overhead conversion, dual carbs and a unique distributor set up and it looks like it is together enough to run. Notice the resistance wire on the firewall, fuel lines hooked up and looks like linkage might be as well as other wiring above the steering box, I think you are not giving the kids enough credit. Remember kids like this turned out to be the engineers that designed the cars as well as the ones that went on to work at NASA.
  15. I don't think you can see through the grille, it looks like the paint is chipped off the grille teeth which gives the illusion that you can see light through it. No rods from the firewall to radiator but they may not have needed them depending on how they mounted the shell/ radiator. Atleast early on. Maybe they weren't to last 20 percent yet of fine tuning everything yet and adding stuff like that. A trip around the block might not have required a windshield either.
  16. Hard to say, maybe just competition. What else can one buy for 35G? Probably not many buyers lining up to buy this era of Packard so you kind of have to compare it with other 40's convertibles. Some people don't care for this styling either when compared to other 40's cars. The wagons are a good example. Seems the least popular of 40's woody wagons from what I see in sales results. A good polish of the paint wouldn't hurt either. Those pics make it look all scratched up or something. A few more pics wouldn't hurt either.
  17. Looks like an OHV conversion as well.
  18. It's probably worth checking with another hauler then. . I have used two regular members of this forum and had excellent service. Never once did they tell me it's not worth hauling. I've even had them haul literature as well as cars. They were great to deal with. Bill and Rusty tin man. Maybe your particular car will be too expensive to haul, but I still think they would give you a ball park price, which depends on connections and back hauls.
  19. It's so nice as well when I go to the standard news channels to only get the same story, often using the same exact words(that's the scary part) from channel to channel to get independent reports of current events. Glad I only get to see the approved message so I don't have to think for myself. It's such a relief.
  20. Maybe he took it on consignment? As said the Flip isn't much, since I would expect you would get a little off the asking price as well.
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