It is a good looking car, but the things I can pick out as incorrect are the black bumper rub strips, only the lighter colored S3's got them, the darker colors got white rubs strips to better match the side stripes, the rear bumper should be chrome, I am assuming a non numbers matching engine as the ad states "period correct 400 engine" also for the asking price I would expect all the little things in the interior to be in better shape, like the seat belts, turn signal & tilt column stalk chrome, & missing shoulderharness retainers. All that being said I have always liked these models. Very few had the bucket seats, center console with floor shift, or a bigger engine than a 350 2bbl. This one even has a gauge package.
A good friend of mine had the opposite of this one....white with cranberry stripes, cranberry half vinyl roof, cranberry interior with swivel buckets, console, completely loaded out. 400 4bbl too but had AC unlike this one. Absolutely beautiful car, in fact I really wanted one back in the day. Performance was lacking back in the mid-70's and, believe it or not, my '75 Skyhawk with the 231 V6 2bbl 4speed would keep up with his 400 4bbl to about 95-100 mph. After that, he would pull away. We nick-named him "Baa-Wooooo" as he flipped the air cleaner lid over and we all know what sound a quadrajet makes when one does that "modification"....LOL! While a neat car, I personally don't feel it is worth the asking price. I agree with you Jeff, too many little details need too much work. One could easily drop another $5000 in getting the details worked out.
Not so sure I wouldn’t have taken $11,700 for it. By ‘75 those really weren’t considered “muscle” cars. I guess gaged against the other standards of ‘75 they may have been, but still.
No doubt you are probably on to something there. I think maybe 30 years ago you could make money flipping cars. Today with a good paint job in the 2-5,000 and up area and just with what stuff costs I don’t know unless you buy a rare car dirt cheap it’s hard to make a bundle of money on them. I love these ads on EBay for ‘55 chopped tinkle yellow Chevy’s where the guy will say “over $100,000 invested”. Ah sorry. I’m not paying for your tastes. It’s kinda a crap shoot. A restoration friend told me once. “The paint doesn’t know whether it’s going on a Ford Maverick, or a Packard. It all costs the same”. Seemed to make sense at the time.
