I'll second that...it's a shiney project car...
The fellow I talked to (when it was up on Ebay before) said he had only
driven it up and down his street once. When I asked about flying in and
driving home he said he didn't recommend it after I prodded him a bit.
And it seems like there are deals out there for decent project cars, the
market for them isn't too crazy yet.
Paul
>From: Stephen Waybright <gswaybright@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Stephen Waybright <gswaybright@yahoo.com>
>To: CoolVT@aol.com, suprmac@mac.com, tigers@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject: Re: eBay Tiger
>Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:36:24 -0800 (PST)
>
>I saw the pictures of the underside... it may be hard to tell for sure,
>but my reaction was that as is, the car appears to be unsafe to drive
>down a driveway. It looked like EXTREME frame rot several $k minimum if
>you pay someone to fix it properly, or many months to DYI with a grand
>or so in materials. I'd also guess that since they dressed up all the
>cosmetics but left the fundemental structural stuff as is, there are
>likely another couple/few grand in mechanical costs on top of the
>strucutural work to make it a truely safe reliable driver. I'll bet the
>fluids are not even fresh.
>
>It scared me and I've driven 500 miles from Roch NY to Indy with just a
>parking brake to stop the car (my much younger, single days in an old
>Pinto).
>
>The new owner will wish they bought a solid car in the $20ks before
>it's all said and done.
>
>--- CoolVT@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Re: the Tiger on EBay. Sold for $17,100. This gives us one more
> > clue to
> > what the value of a typical "Driver" Tiger is worth. I haven't seen
> > the
> > additional pictures of the frame rust, but if it isn't into the
> > floors and rocker
> > panels I would think $1,000 would clean up the underneath. Allow
> > another $1,000
> > for misc and someone might have a $19,000 "driver."
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