I got lucky and paid $1800 for my Chevelle back in 2003. I say lucky because it was a 23 year old, spoiled kid whose mom bought him a new Nissan Maxima and he didn't realize what he had. That same car could have sold for $5000 easily in my opinion. He looked at the Chevelle as
"an old car he'd had since high school and no longer running." So, he let it sit up for about a year and assumed it wouldn't even run anymore. All it was, the battery had run down and the gas went bad in it.
I took the battery to Auto Zone to get charged up, put some fresh gas in the tank, never dumped the old gas since I just wanted to see if it would start. It fired right up. Body wise, the car was near perfect, every panel on the car is original. Didn't have to replace nothing...no floors, trunk, etc. The only thing was it had a vinyl top and when I took it off, the roof had alot of rust. But, I had small patch panels made for that and along the quarter panels were the molding was and it was all she wrote. Also replaced a few patches in the trunk. Oh, and by the way, the 23 year old kid was the second owner as he bought it from the original owner. I'm the third owner.
