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Re: Should I buy this 74?

To: david.ebel@visitalk.com
Subject: Re: Should I buy this 74?
From: GLCurley@aol.com
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:34:00 EST
Dave,
Here is my opinion, fwiw.  The best thing to do is look at some other cars to 
get a perspective.  Maybe some club members near you would volunteer to show 
you theirs?  The last four picture links on youre web page are not working, 
the other ones look good.  The headlights--originally vacuum, not compressed 
air--should be fairly easy to fix.  The acrylic hatches always want to 
flatten themselves out but there is a technique to make them curved again.  
The pic of the bumper looks a little shiny--if it is high gloss it might have 
been painted.  If the console is really in great shape then you are very 
lucky or it has been replaced.  If there is a compartment in the console then 
it is not a stock 74 console.  I did not see the "raising panel on the left 
door" that you mentioned.  I did not see any cracks either, but I have had a 
hard time myself trying to take pics of cracks in acrylic.  

It seems to me to be in the appropriate price range.  What are you planning 
to do with the car?  If it is all acrylic with no/few cracks then that makes 
the car more valuble, IMO  However, if you are going to drive it every day 
and/or store it outside in the elements then you may be paying for 
characteristics that are not going to last.

George Curley

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