1972 Convertible barn find?

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Nice car, needs work, i like how the ad says "easy fix"

I have learned one thing while redoing my car, there is no such thing as an "Easy Fix".

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Yeah, easy fix is utter nonsense, but if you've got the time and skills it looks like it has the potential to be a pretty great car.

 
New Jersey, visible rust (means a lot more) easy fix = lol. I see a lot of money being spent. Mine looked close to show when I bought it after being stored for 12 years and has no rust, that was approximately $27, 000 ago.

 
this car was on craigslist for months a little bit ago.. he was down to 1500, obviously like most people if you cant sell it for 1500 might as well jack up the price!!!

 
Looks sun beat.

I think its a backyard find.

But for the right price to the right person this can be a realy nice car, and by price I would say $1500.- $2000 max.

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It has cancer and without out extensive Chemo it is will rot away setting in place. Even if stored in a good environment. I would hate to see what the frame rails look like right now.

 
New Jersey, visible rust (means a lot more) easy fix = lol. I see a lot of money being spent. Mine looked close to show when I bought it after being stored for 12 years and has no rust, that was approximately $27, 000 ago.
I'm right there with ya... on SO many levels. Mine hadn't been registered since 1980 and left to rot - with all the structural damage and Hilly-Billy rememdies I discovered & repaired occurring prior to being parked. That must've been a HARD 9 years of "out-doing the Duke Boys," is all I can say.

Having said that I say, "That doesn't look so bad - I'd give it a shot." rofl

That's a joke... you can laugh now. ;)

 
That car looks like it will need everything. Complete Interior, probably rocker panels, trunk floor and whatnot. :(

 
From the photos it looks like a flood vehicle.
Doubt it. A rotted cowl along with a leaking or frequently-left-open convertible top will give you the same results. I don't even have to guess that the cowl hat is rotted (trust me, it is) and as for the rest - well, it IS a convertible; a ruined floor mat shouldn't be a curiosity.

It has cancer and without out extensive Chemo it is will rot away setting in place. Even if stored in a good environment. I would hate to see what the frame rails look like right now.
Framerail rot is the least of your concerns. The inner rockers are the key to the additional structural strength needed on the convertible, and they're shot. Why do you think the doors are never shown fully closed in the ad?

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Granted, the left side quarter panel has been (sloppily) replaced with a '73 quarter (note the two bumper filler extension mounting holes filled in, see below), but the right side has just as bad a gap to convince me that the panel replacement had nothing to do with the gap issues. In short, painfully obvious unibody sagging.

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Easy fix my arse. Unibody is trash, unless someone thinks it sensible to tear the whole thing down, replace the inner rockers, trunk floor, floorpans, wheelhouses, quarter panels, cowl, right front battery apron (again, trust me on this), and whatever else is rotted out on it.

Conclusion? Parts car. Value as a whole, $500. End of story.

-Kurt

P.S.: Those moldings are dealer-added. This car does not have the exterior Decor Group w/tu-tone paint, nor the urethane bumper and body-color nose. Bet they didn't rust-proof the bare metal when they drilled the holes out for mounting. The sportlamp grill was probably done at the same time too.

 
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I think Kurt's pretty much nailed it.

Too bad, though. I would love to have a 'vert (they've kinda grown on me since I've been here)... but not from a starting point that's worse than mine when I began.

 
Yep - Good job guys on your analysis. This car is really a bigger project than what I would want to takle on. And unfortunately whoever does buy it wil discover all the issues you guys have mentioned and propbably let it sit for many more years until it is parted out.

I just hate to see another one lost.

Ray

 
Kurt, you have definitely called it right on this one...too much sag in the middle...But, then again I have too much sag in the middle too, and I would rather be fixed than parted out. :D

 
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