1966 Shelby GT350 Montana $9500 Scam Alert

[Angelfish]

Here's the CL ad, no phone number:

 

https://billings.craigslist.org/cto/d/billings-1966-ford-mustang-shelby/7669671850.html

 

Here's the year old video of the car being dragged out:

 

 

[TAKerry]

Ya Think?

[JACK M]

But he has invited us over to take a look, Seller just doesn't know what he has.

[alsancle]

Assuming it is real. It’s worth 150 K as a pile of rust.

[TAKerry]

AJ, whata ya doing this weekend? I will go in halvsies with you, $4500 each way. We can restore it and make a bundle! Now quick, send the guy a $1000 deposit to hold it till we can get there to pick it up. He may even be able to ship it to us for an additional fee!!

[alsancle]

45 minutes ago, TAKerry said:

AJ, whata ya doing this weekend? I will go in halvsies with you, $4500 each way. We can restore it and make a bundle! Now quick, send the guy a $1000 deposit to hold it till we can get there to pick it up. He may even be able to ship it to us for an additional fee!!

 

I paid 10,500 for my Shelby in 1989.  I would get to the convenience store at 10:00 AM every Tuesday because that was 30 minutes after the local want advertiser was delivered for the week.   I called immediately and was the 3rd guy in line.  The first guy offered 9,500, the second guy passed and I gave him the full price.

 

If we are to believe this ad prices haven't changed in 34 years.

[Angelfish]

52 minutes ago, TAKerry said:

AJ, whata ya doing this weekend? I will go in halvsies with you, $4500 each way. We can restore it and make a bundle! Now quick, send the guy a $1000 deposit to hold it till we can get there to pick it up. He may even be able to ship it to us for an additional fee!!

I SAW IT FIRST, Y'ALL WAIT YOUR TURN NOW!

[Kennysingleton]

9 hours ago, TAKerry said:

Ya Think?

So I did a pic search thru Google an if what I saw is true the car has been restored so if all of what I saw is true then it's a scam that being said call the FBI an have them arrested for fraud lmao who ever posted this 

[TAKerry]

15 hours ago, alsancle said:

 

I paid 10,500 for my Shelby in 1989.  I would get to the convenience store at 10:00 AM every Tuesday because that was 30 minutes after the local want advertiser was delivered for the week.   I called immediately and was the 3rd guy in line.  The first guy offered 9,500, the second guy passed and I gave him the full price.

 

If we are to believe this ad prices haven't changed in 34 years.

That was a pretty good deal!!!  I have a buddy with a 69 shelby convertible. He bought it from the original owner in 1973 for what I think he told me was 6500. He said he had to borrow money from his dad to cover it.

[alsancle]

8 minutes ago, TAKerry said:

That was a pretty good deal!!!  I have a buddy with a 69 shelby convertible. He bought it from the original owner in 1973 for what I think he told me was 6500. He said he had to borrow money from his dad to cover it.

That was a lot of money for that car in 1973.

 

Mine was close to market for a car beat to crap in 1989.  And that it was a fastback not a vert.   The convertible was few more shekels in 2000.

Edited September 26, 2023 by alsancle (see edit history)

[JCmolina17]

i just spoke to him and he insisted for me to send a deposit via venmo to hold the car for him, they even sent me pictures of them and a drivers lisence of his wife

 

 

i can share if the pics if anyone wants

[Angelfish]

1 hour ago, JCmolina17 said:

i just spoke to him and he insisted for me to send a deposit via venmo to hold the car for him, they even sent me pictures of them and a drivers lisence of his wife

 

 

i can share if the pics if anyone wants

You heard back?  I contacted him via email, he wrote back saying "Please contact me."  But did not provide a phone number.  I emailed back requesting engine pictures and to set a time to look at it this weekend (I'll be 200 miles away this weekend).  Never heard back after that.  

 

Whatever pictures would be interesting.  

[Leif in Calif]

I did once buy a car in a situation like that. I believe it was 1987, just as the collector market was starting to go crazy. Advertised as a "real AC Cobra drag car" for $10K in the used car flyer on the newsstand. I talked to the guy and it sounded legit, but he said he wasn't taking deposits, he said "first one with the money gets it". Contributing to the situation, I was newly single and had just received a surprise check for almost that amount. This was in a small town with one bank, and I knew the manager so he did the transfer for me over the phone.  Silly purchase really...the car was built by a guy named Romeo Palamides, one of the founders of American Racing Wheels, and had an engine from an early Navy jet. but it was a real Cobra body. 

I sold it a few months later and got to say I once owned a Cobra (or at least part of one)

[alsancle]

1 hour ago, Leif in Calif said:

I did once buy a car in a situation like that. I believe it was 1987, just as the collector market was starting to go crazy. Advertised as a "real AC Cobra drag car" for $10K in the used car flyer on the newsstand. I talked to the guy and it sounded legit, but he said he wasn't taking deposits, he said "first one with the money gets it". Contributing to the situation, I was newly single and had just received a surprise check for almost that amount. This was in a small town with one bank, and I knew the manager so he did the transfer for me over the phone.  Silly purchase really...the car was built by a guy named Romeo Palamides, one of the founders of American Racing Wheels, and had an engine from an early Navy jet. but it was a real Cobra body. 

I sold it a few months later and got to say I once owned a Cobra (or at least part of one)

 

Now that deserves its own thread.