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Originally Posted by TreySmith
This happens ALOT with early mustangs. I would never EVER buy a restored mustang coupe..  |
This was a learning experience for everyone in that aspect...think about how many cars that even cross Barrett Jackson that sell for a lot of money are just thrown together cover up jobs. There is a guy here south of Birmingham that bought a '68 Shelby "recreation" at BJ for $60Kish....later when he got to looking at it he noticed "shapes" in the floor pan...pulled the carpet and saw matching "shapes" on the top as well...turns out the floors had a LOT of small riveted patches put in and then had bedliner sprayed on the top and bottom of the floors to cover it up.
At this point I'd rather just buy a pile of junk to start with...at least you know what you have and anything good is a bonus.
The '69 Fastback we have here was sold as a 351 powered GT and the inspector noted that...the inspector even wrote down that the suspension had been "rebuilt" when in fact it was all original except for the cut and clamped front springs(see pic)....the list is HUGE on things that were obvious on this car that were problems and it was a 302 under the hood and the gas cap was from a '68...that's where he got the GT part. Unfortunately the customer was not well informed on Mustangs and when the finance company told him that they required an "inspection" and that he had to pay $200 for it he figured it was going to actually get "inspected"....I could have done a better inspection driving by at 55mph! When he confronted the finance compnay their response was "Well, we just require them to verify the car is actually there"....really sad.