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Old 03-29-2021, 01:28 PM
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The price seems a little high on this one, considering that there's not much left on it.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sf...294127278.html
I guess he thinks the vin tag and data plate are worth big bucks. Otherwise, that is about $100 of scrap.

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Old 03-30-2021, 01:23 PM
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Did HO's use long branches factory?

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Old 03-30-2021, 03:25 PM
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That Grand Prix is a pretty cool car.

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Did HO's use long branches factory?
According to the factory brochure, yes: http://oldcarbrochures.org/United%20...ige-52-53.html

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https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/d...298433057.html

not a Pontiac, but the story is cringeworthy

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not a Pontiac, but the story is cringeworthy
I wonder if he knows what's going on...

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I wonder if he knows what's going on...
feels fake, like if you text "she" is going to ask you for your craigslist code and to be paid in ebay gift cards haha

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Old 04-01-2021, 09:56 AM
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feels fake, like if you text "she" is going to ask you for your craigslist code and to be paid in ebay gift cards haha
I’m also thinking scam.

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feels fake, like if you text "she" is going to ask you for your craigslist code and to be paid in ebay gift cards haha
"She" doesn't know much about it, but knows the right words?
Someone knew this would light up a phone with endless texts.

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not a Pontiac, but the story is cringeworthy
Yeah - that's BS X 5.

in 2010, I sold my wife's 12 year old, 80,000 mile Acura for $5,250. To this day, she is convinced that I sold it cheap to spite her - because I don't like money or something. She thought it was worth $12,000 - when it cost somewhere around $14,000 brand new.

I don't buy for a second that any woman (or anybody, for that matter) will accept less than they could get. If she really didn't know anything about trucks, she'd be asking $30,000 for that thing.

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Old 04-01-2021, 08:26 PM
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Ultra rare Ford Ventura

https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/i...63772894134370

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Read the ad again. It says Pontiac Ventura, not Ford.

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Read the ad again. It says Pontiac Ventura, not Ford.
The title says Ford, so does the main ad when you search for it

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Those hatchbacks are sort of rare aren't they?
Rare or not, I'll pass!

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There may be fans of these little **** boxes on this site. Seems pretty solid....

https://easttexas.craigslist.org/cto...302364128.html

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There may be fans of these little **** boxes on this site. Seems pretty solid....

https://easttexas.craigslist.org/cto...302364128.html
Don't see those every day!

I dunno how solid it is, though. Check out the upper left part of this picture, and just imagine what the floor pans and rear frame rails might look like...


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Don't see those every day!

I dunno how solid it is, though. Check out the upper left part of this picture, and just imagine what the floor pans and rear frame rails might look like...

The rust is where the battery tray should be, very common for an H-Body to rot out under the battery. I would only be concerned if it had spread to the frame rail under where the battery tray should be.

Looks like it is at least reasonably priced, unlike the 73 Lemans recently posted.

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Don't see those every day!

I dunno how solid it is, though. Check out the upper left part of this picture, and just imagine what the floor pans and rear frame rails might look like...

FWIW, I've never seen a Vega battery tray area that didn't look like that.

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There may be fans of these little **** boxes on this site. Seems pretty solid....

https://easttexas.craigslist.org/cto...302364128.html
My mother had a comparable year Vega, the only real memory I have of it was that we laid a large black trash back across our laps when it rained because the little rustbucket had rotted out around the windshield before it had reached it's first decade of existence. Even the imports didn't rust that bad back in the day.

My ex-wife had a 77 or 78 Astre wagon. It had hand controls in it for my mother in law who had polio. That one probably would have made a great drag car. It had been garage kept and was pretty straight and solid. She traded it in on a 90' Mustang (4-banger) and we later came across her old car in a junkyard.

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The Pontiac version has the Iron Duke engine instead of the POS aluminum Vega engine.

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Seems a little high....

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/c...299506249.html

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