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[marshallfry01]

https://lasvegas.craigslist.org/cto/5956607754.html

Is it a bad idea to buy a car that has had fresh body work and primed over? I don't know much about body work so I have a hard time telling if it's packed with filler or not. Plus only having one picture makes it hard to guess. If all it needs is sanding and paint it seems like a fair price. (If the body work was done correctly) What is your opinion? Would you look at it or run away?... 

And does anyone know the seller? He has a lot of 68-70 chargers for sale on CL.....

[Kern Dog]

When I see anyone write something like...."Ready to paint" I always think...Then PAINT the damn thing. A car with shiny paint is always going to be worth MORE than a car in primer IF the bodywork looks right. The dull finish of primer hides all sorts of flaws. You can spend a lot of time, effort and money to get the car actually ready to paint.
My point? Check it out in person. Take a few magnets. Get the surface wet and look for waves and ripples. You won't catch everything this way but it should root out the areas needing the most work to correct.
The price is too high anyway. If the paint was original and faded all to hell, the price would not be too bad since you'd see that nothing was being hidden or covered up.

[marshallfry01]

Kern Dog what do you think it's worth? 18k? 

[Kern Dog]

I'd love to give you a fair assessment but to be accurate, I'd need to see it. I have seen some cars look decent online that turned out to be really scary up close.
It is easy to feel that if YOU don't step up to buy it, someone else will beat you to it. Same sort of thing happened in the white hot housing market of 2003-2006. People were buying any house they could because waiting often meant that another buyer could beat you to it. Many of those people ended up with houses needing serious repair, in bad neighborhoods with huge house payments.....all because they were more concerned about getting in the game NOW rather than getting the right house.
Not trying to piss on the car. It might be a great buy. I would not consider spending even half that money without seeing the car in person. I know that it seems like a B/S cop out, I just don't like to be proven wrong if I can help it.

[tan top]

https://lasvegas.craigslist.org/cto/5956607754.html

Is it a bad idea to buy a car that has had fresh body work and primed over? I don't know much about body work so I have a hard time telling if it's packed with filler or not. Plus only having one picture makes it hard to guess. If all it needs is sanding and paint it seems like a fair price. (If the body work was done correctly) What is your opinion? Would you look at it or run away?... 

And does anyone know the seller? He has a lot of 68-70 chargers for sale on CL.....

[marshallfry01]

I'd love to give you a fair assessment but to be accurate, I'd need to see it. I have seen some cars look decent online that turned out to be really scary up close.
It is easy to feel that if YOU don't step up to buy it, someone else will beat you to it. Same sort of thing happened in the white hot housing market of 2003-2006. People were buying any house they could because waiting often meant that another buyer could beat you to it. Many of those people ended up with houses needing serious repair, in bad neighborhoods with huge house payments.....all because they were more concerned about getting in the game NOW rather than getting the right house.
Not trying to piss on the car. It might be a great buy. I would not consider spending even half that money without seeing the car in person. I know that it seems like a B/S cop out, I just don't like to be proven wrong if I can help it.

Yeah I get what you mean. Primer can hide a lot. Especially in pictures. I never can figure out why people try to sell a car online with just one picture. 15 or so good pics would be so much better. I bet the phone rings off of the wall with picture requests.

[Kern Dog]

Read closer. It doesn't even state that the car runs or drives, just that it comes with a 440 and 727. In the car or on a pallet These cars all need suspension rebuilds, you can expect the wiring to be original and in need of repair, the interiors are rarely nice enough to leave as is...

[Laowho]

We looked at him pretty closely cuz he's only about 10 miles from my dad in Monee, IL. At the time (8 months ago) he'd only had one Charger and 2 other cars wh/ he said he was liquidating cuz he'd lost space due to a fire, etc. Tread lightly?

[BrianShaughnessy]

15 years ago when I bought Black Betty ( it was sanded down red and primer at the time ) it was advertised as being ready for paint...  :/   

Had it dropped off at my friends' body shop whereupon he looked it over,  took a grinder to the passenger quarter panel and came up with about 1/2" of bondo over a butt weld.    Then he took the grinder to the driver side......    So the next day I ordered 2 new quarter panels.

Point is that if you're not a body & paint guy...  don't just take their word for it.