> BUT there is one catch in that I have incurred some fairly serious expenses
> moving it across the country. I have yet to total them, but I'd estimate
> they are about $750. I will have to recover this money. Still its a pretty
> good deal considering that a heritage bodyshell is $4000 plus shipping. This
> is a 72 in very good condition. By the way, I'll only make this offer to
> fellow sol'ers. If someone not on the list is interested in it, I'd have to
> ask $1500 for it and spilt it with Bob Keller. I can deliver it. The car is
> in Ann Arbor Michigan.
Well, if you can get $1500 for that shell, let me know the number of the
buyer, as I've got a complete MGB that he could have for, oh, I guess I
could let it go for $10,000. But the price will go up once I get it to
start.
Or for that matter, if someone is willing to pay $1500 for that shell, I
have the original engine block that they could buy for $2500, and I'm
sure John Ross would be glad to sell the original tranny out of it for
$2000 or so. And Rob Keller has some of the suspension pieces out of
it -- wire wheels, no less. What do you think, Rob, would $3000 be out
of place for all that gear?
Has the market really changed that much? I paid $500 for that car back
when it was a *whole car* (well, the tires were off the wheels then; I had
to install the wire wheels from The Green Car to get it on the trailer).
I agreed to buy it sight unseen, and towed it back from Reno late in 1990.
I took the engine and trans out of it, pulled some other gear, found a
few useful bits in the trunk and interior (brand-new, never installed
seat foam and a carpet set that's now in TGC) and sold it to Rob Keller.
I felt guilty for asking $125 for it then. (Hey, Rob, you still owe me
a burrito at La Bamba for the last five bucks worth of that! :-)
So I guess I'm an idiot for selling it for less than I paid for it, in
spite of the fact that when I sold it it had no engine, trans, radiator,
or tires, and that I got about $1200 worth of cores and usable stuff out
of it while I had it.
On the plus side, it is a decent shell. There's some bad bondo on the
passenger's door -- a big, deep oilcan dent that's been filled and the
bondo cracked. It's got the usual MGB damage: dents up under the lights,
a gunch on one of the front wings, and the worst to fix, a hit under the
left taillight, where so many little seams come together. Cracked
windscreen, disassembled interior, no gauges to speak of, no folding
top mechanism. It'd make a great tub for a V8 conversion, though, as
everything is gone from it with the possible exception of the rear axle.
(I don't really know how much of the running gear Rob took off the tub.)
And it should have a clear title; I never registered it since it never
ran while I owned it, and I've passed all the paperwork along the way
(um, I think... haven't I? I gave you that stuff, right, Rob? And
did you give it to William?)
Do you really think you can get $1500 for it?
--Scott "One of us is crazy, and it's not you" Fisher
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