Should I pass on this A? Or would I miss out on something?

[bigd1101]

After years of buying and selling old cars and trucks and restoring one (my first old car) a 1956 Plymouth Belvedere, in 1973, I swore I would never do that again. I found that unless the car is rare and desirable, two criteria that make restoring a car worth the time and $$$$, you'll never get the money back you invested. I then decided to be that guy that buys cars already done over, in various degrees, mostly good solid "10 footers" or better that some other poor bastard sunk his life savings into and gets married, divorced, has a kid or two and lets his car go for a fraction of what he has into it. Then, when I got tired of it, sold it for a profit. I wouldn't touch that car you are looking at with a 20 foot pole. The Model A in my avatar is a sweet car, with a 20 year resto job, paid a tad below "book value" and yet, found I needed to sink about $1000 into it so far to get it up to snuff so even my method was not fool proof and being my first A, a hard lesson. Next time I'll know what to look for. There are thousands of Model A's out there for sale.....shop around, pay a little more, be a lot happier. Here is a frame off 1952 restored Plymouth I bought off eBay for $5000 about 15 years ago, won a few car show trophies, sold it for $8000.




Don