Remind me to Hire Neil Vedder if I ever wan to buy a FL car from someone off list!
Talk about fine toothed comb!
Thanks for the insight,
Charles.
---- eastern sierra Adj Services <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK, since I've been called-out, on my stated opinion that this car ( #
> 260150161247) is a "mess", it took a while for my dial-up to enlarge the
> pics, and my opinion has NOT changed.
>
> If this car were properly advertised, at something under $20K, none of
> this discussion
> would be germaine, but the seller uses such terms as "Might be the
> nicest 57 Dodge in the world", and "perfect" and "restoration", which
> leaves him open to some critical revue, if he expects to receive up to
> $80K, for the car..
>
> "Restoration" does not mean "new", or "different", or "improved"; it
> means to return something to its as-new condition.
>
> Starting with the paint; the car is correctly coded for having gold and
> white enamel paint. Its received obviously-wrong gold-color, and
> probably-wrong white (can't really tell, from the pics), but an obvious
> heavy clear coat over a urethane type paint.
>
> The dash has "clearly" the wrong shade of gold-finish, on it, although
> the black upper area, and the black insert panels are probably correct.
>
> The wheels are painted black, instead of that eggshell-white; the
> hubcaps were probably not spinners, but plain-discs, and the knights
> heads aren't gold-plated on them.
>
> I think that the rear dual antennae are not Dodge-pieces; the
> thick-lower section looks to be too-long/high. Don't know if the car
> came with duals; the Broadcast Sheet & IBM Card would confirm their
> existence (& spinners-or-not).
>
> The car has CUSTOM ROYAL "bright" end-of-fin caps (Coros have semi-glos
> black pieces; the car has at least one GLOW-BRITE tail lamp.
>
> The trunk finish is laughable (on an $80K best-in-world-car); there is
> clear evidence of quarter panel section replacement, where the OEM
> undercoating ("Sound Deadener") disappears in a straight-across line,
> and bare metal appears.
>
> The trunk "restoration" should feature body color (gold) overspray over
> the flat-gray primer.
>
> The trunk color, and the spare tire (probably coincidentally-gray) are
> the wrong shade, for representing the primer-color, and the trunk latch
> should be body color. The trunk-silencer panel is replaced; it should
> have a waffle-pattern to it, which raises additional questions as to why
> the silencer NEEDED to be replaced.
>
> No views of the trunk floor were shown, underneath the incorrect trunk
> "mat".
>
> The car IS a Custom Coronet, and the OEM(?) upper trim panel mylar
> panels are seen, along with that "aftermarket" interior; all Coros had
> rubber floor mats; not carpeting.
>
> The car not only LOOKS to be going fast, at a standstill; but the speedo
> indicates that it's going 35 mph (take THAT: Plymouths!!!)
>
> The rear suspension is sitting way-high, so, the leaf springs (why?) may
> have been replaced, or improperly re-arched.
>
> The engine compartment: black hinges and hood latch (should be silver
> cadmium plated)
> gold valve covers (should be silver; valve covers can have the :"Super
> Red Ram" decals installed) .
>
> Radiator cap, battery cables, hose clamps are not correct ; generator
> has wrong (gloss-black) finish, and end-plates should be 'natural'
> finish.
>
> What am i forgetting....OH YEAH: it's got a 1958 Spring Special trunk
> "Escutcheon" on it.
>
> AND: it's got no sunvisors on it, but it is 'coded' for having the neat
> tinted plastic ones!
>
> OH yeah (my scribbled notes!): the paint-PATTERN-application, on the
> inner door/ rocker areas is wrong! That indicates that the body was
> completely/significantly stripped, but the painter had NO clue as to the
> proper paint-orientation, when he got around to painting the body--he
> guessed (incorrectly).
>
> And: as far as the intrinsic value/rarety/option-list on the car is; it
> has manual brakes and steering--it won't be much fun to horse around.
>
> which leads to the mechanical condition of the car; the seller claims
> that the car runs "perfectly".
>
> Want to bet, on THAT?
>
> A car IS a mechanical device, it's not supposed to be merely a
> stationary work of art.
>
> Again: NONE of this would matter, if the seller was asking something
> under $20K, for the car, and if he had (knowingly) disclosed what the
> car's pre-"restoration" condition was, or, had he refrained from
> describing it as being "perfect" and "perhaps the best in the world".
>
> Neil Vedder
>
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