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Apexcarver
Apexcarver SuperDork
1/25/09 1:37 p.m.

actually, do a '78 zephyr/fairmont almost all the fox mustang bits bolt in and noone would see it coming.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
1/26/09 6:14 a.m.

Box Fox Granada (80,81) or Locost are my two choices.

Sofa King
Sofa King New Reader
1/26/09 10:09 a.m.

Well, we picked up the car Saturday. We hadn't seen it before we picked it up. It had nothing but cosmetic damage. We drove it onto the tow dolly! Started right up in 15 degree weather! We were shocked the the insurance company sold it for $650.

Towed it home, but before we got it back, we stopped to look at some parts that it needed to put it back together. The guy with the parts bought OUR car for $2000.

P71
P71 HalfDork
1/26/09 10:19 a.m.

Hell, can't argue with that. Nice profit!

stumpmj
stumpmj Dork
1/27/09 6:49 a.m.

So how did you get hooked into the insurance company to buy totaled cars?

Sofa King
Sofa King New Reader
1/27/09 8:24 a.m.

This was an isolated opportunity. It was a friend that wrecked his car, and we asked if we could buy it.

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
1/27/09 9:25 a.m.

Jeeze, With state farm a buy back on a totaled car has only ever been $60. But it was always our own car, and never a mustang...Shrug

Sofa King
Sofa King New Reader
1/27/09 10:14 a.m.

Even the guy at the tow yard (who would see this more than I would.) said that he was surprised that they sold it so cheap. In this case "totaled" meant that repairs would exceed the value of the car, not that the car was totally destroyed. The insurance adjuster said that he had 2 estimates from salvage companies and he sold it to us for the lower of the two. Technically we were acting as the original owner.

Ian_F
Ian_F New Reader
1/27/09 10:44 a.m.

LoCost.

mistanfo
mistanfo Dork
1/27/09 10:45 a.m.

And now you nearly have your Challenge budget for this year...

Sofa King
Sofa King New Reader
1/27/09 11:28 a.m.
mistanfo wrote: And now you nearly have your Challenge budget for this year...

YEP!

bigtoed
bigtoed New Reader
1/27/09 10:51 p.m.

It's a Ford motor, I'm certain someone has a bellhousing adaptor to fit it up to a 9n tractor.

fornetti14
fornetti14 Reader
1/28/09 6:23 a.m.

How about another Mustang? Maybe an older one?

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