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Originally Posted by getmygoat
If you are going to restore that car there is literally no difference between paying $7700 versus $5500, That $2200 is noise.
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$2200. is only noise for somebody that can more than afford to throw it away not everyone is blessed with a large bank account .
$2200. can go a long way into a restoration ..
the problem is people are sitting on rust buckets and basing their asking price on what the car could be worth when all professionally done to concours .. the seller knows that his dreams of restoring the car are out of their reach and not happy about it either so they try and gouge as much as they can ( its their car its their right to do so) and with the help of Barrett Jackson and all the car restoration TV shows these people think they sit on a gold mine and the select few people that pay that ridiculous amount are very well off usually have their own shop and just in it to restore and flip . And if you live in Canada its more expensive to restore as pretty much everything is out of the US (shipping, brokerage, duty tax plus the high price because you need it) for the most part.. .. Its getting so bad that these shops will be cornering the market by keeping project car valued at a high price that only they can afford to restore and flip and the average Joe wont even be able to afford a project car let alone restore it