VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1929-1932 One quick project here.

Seller calls this a "project car"!!!!! :eek: :eek:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6783&item=2444657733

What do you say? Maybe 4-5 weeks ends to have her finished and back on the road? :cool2:

Hi Gator,
This is the second time this has happened to me. When I click on your link to ebay I get a blank page. Could it be some of the anti-pop up or security software I have?

Only if you take a lot of beer breaks !!! Should be able to get this one in "show" condition in just a couple of days.

-Bob

The link worked for me.........and that is not a 1932 Chevrolet....it's a 1930 Chevy sport coupe! :eek: :eek: :( :( :( :(

It might take a couple of more days to modify the 1932 Coupe wood kit to fit the '30 body.

It may not need a wood kit.The wood is all in the last picture....and being a '30 makes it older and should be worth more money.

Here - I rewrote a better description for the ad:

"Pile o' rusted junk that used to be a 'car' - perhaps a '32 Chevrolet, a Studebacker, heck - maybe even a Maxwell! All you need is 2 gallons of elbow grease and a huge savings account. I will only accept bids from anyone who can prove they are legally single - I do want to the source of any ugly divorces caused by this 'project car'."

More appropriate..?

Talk about no usable parts, I don't think you have 10% of a car there that you could use in the final car.

The seller should try to appeal to street rodders with "dismantled, all ready to be channeled, easy access to chop, french and smooth....etc"


How would you like to buy from this guy over the phone w/o pictures??

you guys sound like my ex wife. if you saw a diomond before it was cut you wouldn't be interested in it either. face it, the gravy stuff isn't out there too much anymore. i thought the object of this club was preservation. well you either preserve it or use it for parts to preserve another one or.....you give it to a street rodder because it's too much work for you.
PRESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

J, Wow! to compare that pile of mismatched junk parts as a "Diamond in the rough" is like compareing A rock found on the side of a gravel road to Mount Rushmore.....
.....Be-sides don't you know that the folks here don't have time to do a ground up restoration of a basket case and also drink beer and stay on this durn computer site? Yeah!

If those 1930 coupe quarter panels are in decent shape, they are worth big bucks. And, it looks like a few other parts might be salvageable as well, like the trunk lid. But.....like anything else, it all depends on what he wants for the car as to whether or not it would be feasible to save the few good parts that are left.

Hey, I'm all for preserving (preserving my money too) cars, but $2,499.00 is the asking price ('Buy it now')for this pile! :eek: :eek: Better jump fast before someone buys it from out from under you.

At $2,499.00, there wouldn't be enough parts to salvage to break even. On your best day, with parting out the good stuff you couldn't even make half of what he wants for that car! :eek: :eek: :( :( :( :(

I think one of our guys has got the high bid of $199.

If all EBay entries had to go through a hype and half-truth filter, I'm sure half of their website would be wiped clean. As you see, jiaccino, we're not knocking the suitability of what might be usable here, just simply observing that the description and price is...ah...vaguely attached to reality?

Well said. :cool2:

granted, the guy needs to do his home work on what he has & what might be the value of it. i just think some of the rougher stuff should find a home...and hopefully not to the streetrodders. i guess i use the 31 sedan delivery as my base. this car at it's present state would make a billy goat puek. but it is what it is & had it not been for a fellow e-bayer putting it up for auction(he didn't know what it was neither)these farmers whould've taken it for scrap.
same with a 34 master sedan delivery i have........cut up with an ax. repairabe? yes. almost perfect quarter panels. same story...was going for scrap & someone thought more of it. maybe we need to review what we may think is junk. maybe a simple conversation with the seller with telling him what he has would get him to lower his price where it could be used without breaking the bank
joe

Kind of a different story with a sedan delivery because sedan deliveries are extremely rare and very desirable.........in any condition! Not so with the '30 coupe on eBay. Yes, a coupe is desirable too, but only to a point. One in this condition, and at that price, is not worth buying since it is realisticaly only worth a few hundred bucks in the condition that it is in. Now, a sedan delivery, even in that condition, is a whole different deal and it would be worth considering...especially if you needed it for parts to get another sedan delivery on the road. Ya gotta compare apples to apples, not apples to lemons.

I read so much frenetic and hyped up language on EBay postings that it becomes obvious whenever you see language and pricing like this, it leans more towards sounding like a huckster and less with appearing naive.

One obvious reason that repeatedly gets mentioned why spam is so prevalent is that there is always one or two easily swayed people out there who will buy any pitch, and the same reasoning can apply to EBay. We're smarter than that, and in this case, I see what you guys are poking fun at. If the seller just called a spade a spade, and said, in effect, "Hey - this is a 'car' in a very loose sense, and it may be worth putting together or using elsewhere - no reserve", then you can respect it for what it is. And then a reasonably smart collector among us can say, yeah, that's a fender/door/etc. I need - I'll bid $150 and a promise to haul it away.

Yep, that's exactly how it should be Eddie, but it usually doesn't work out that way on eBay for some reason. And then, some moron will actually bid on a high priced item like this and take it home! We have all seen it happen time after time, and that's part of the reason why prices on the cool stuff keeps escalating the way that they do. :( :( :( :( :(

"Rare".....now there's a word that is hardly ever used on eBay! NOT! Seems like everything on eBay is "rare" even when there are 47 more just like it listed on eBay too! :eek: :eek:

I was being sarcastic when I said it would be easier to sell to a rodder. Just in case anyone thought I was serious.

Well said, Ed. :)

You know.......a rodder would probably be more interested in buying those parts than a stocker would. :eek: :eek:

It already is a "mix-&-match" deal, different frame, no motor, tranny, etc, etc... Would like to see it used in a car over being melted down into tuna cans. :(

Again, it all depends upon price and what he wants for the stuff bottom line. At the current price the car will probably be tuna cans in the near future. :( :( :( :(

WAIT!, Your talkin about the last 3 years of my LIFE in that pile (OK well close) hahaha

I paid $2,500 for mine.. and it was WORSE shape then that bugger.. WHY? (see below)



I had a "VISION" that others who stopped to see the rotted thing just could NOT see!... It's called "PRESERVATION"..

It may have not been to restore to OEM specs and take 20 years to DO IT, But it will eventually be back on the road as a 1930's Chevrolet and not the NORM of a Frod A with a 32 grille..

When I SOLD all my un-used parts on Ebay to RESTORERS I BROKE-EVEN and kept what I wanted.., Just enough of the "Chevy shaped tin" to start on my own "from scratch" Hotrod project..

Repairing panels and rust is the FUN PART, Your not gonna find a bone stock 1931' in someones back yard for $100 anymore..

Amazingly my mailing list of 107 people is BOTH rodders and restorers and never once a BS email or a virtual fight, "one hand washes the other" and always WILL... and they know that, I could name one board where if you post pictures and they do nothing but BASH you!, Be it rodded or restored.. DONT MATTER!, It is more a group of "arm-chair-quartebacks" then car people..

One of the restorers on my list wants me to apply to be the webmaster of VCCA, I thought that was a little IRONIC thinking that restorers of old chevys would not like the idea of ME the youngin (36) having anything to do with my controlling the VCCA website...

Thus its only in my thoughts now..
0.002 cents

You can read on my car from day ONE here
http://www.ammoman.com/chevy

If you cant understand the fact that this poor car is now going to be a Hotrod then you dont know the TRUE VISION I had of SAVING any 30's Chevrolet from the crusher vs. the NORM of a Dorf...

That and I think your on the wrong website!

J is RIGHT, The idea of VCCA is to PRESERVE Chevrolets last I checked?, I already see Vultures picking at the parts, But ya know what.. Thats the IDEA!, One mans rusted junk rear quarters are another mans GOLD!, How did I get $175 just for my good cylinder head?, Should I have just junked it?

(Oh.. Someone see what he wants for the bumpers? hahaha)



Rob