I decided against purchasing the car. I'm just not in the position to buy it. Too much uncertainty right now. With the extra cost of getting it here, insurance, storage it's just not the right thing to do at this point. The next buyer in line is Ken who was actually ahead of me and graciously offered me first chance to buy it. I really appreciate the gesture and thanks to those who offered to help with short term storage etc.
I contacted "ramtrucking.ca". A friend just had his 58 Christine Clone Plymouth shipped and was quite happy. Prices: Door to door (prices inc taxes) :$1400 If dropped in New Brunswick before the bridge $900 If dropped in Charlottetown $1100.
I have 3 hours to make up my mind. UGH!
Weird pricing ... $300.00 extra to your place! It would be easier to get there off the ferry than Ch'town.
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Good Looking car in decent shape. Canadian Poncho Members, This was Todd's Car. The Chrome is like new. The Soft Top is in great shape. This is a great driver. I am moving & I don't want to move this car.
That is reassurance that the car has deteriorated since you owned it. If it were a great deal, Ken would have snapped it up. On the surface, $6K seems like a good price, but obviously it's not so much or it would have been bought by now, by somebody.
There are lots of cars out there, and you never know what's going to pop up for sale when you're not expecting it. I have really wanted to get into an old car again for a long time, but the timing wasn't right financially and otherwise. Three years ago, the timing was right and I found a '69 Custom S that I could get for the right price, so I made a deal, got a bank draft and was ready to go pick it up only to find that somebody from Cape Breton offered him more money and scooped it out from under me. I was really ticked off by the seller's lack of ethics and by the cut-throat attitude that can exist in this hobby. It turned me off of it for awhile actually, so I stopped looking. The following summer another car that I had an interest in, a 2006 Mustang GT with low low kms on it came up and it was so clean I couldn't pass it up (don't hang me, I also like Mustangs - I bought a 1992 LX 5.0 new back in the day - my only new car ever). So, not an old car but in many ways the best of both worlds - have had a lot of fun with it in the and don't regret the purchase one bit.
That said, I still have the itch for an "old car" (which will always mean something built before the mid 1970s... ha ha). I was considering a '72 Ventura in PEI last year that was a clean original car going super cheap, but somebody from New Glasgow got there before me - fair enough, you snooze you lose. It wasn't my dream car but just a nice little 4 door to scratch the itch.
For now, it's not really the right time for me to buy what I want but I still peruse the ads to see if there's something out there that turns my crank for a really good price. But if I don't find something right away that's OK, because the more I watch the ads the more stuff pops up that I never knew existed before. The right thing will come along, but I want to be ready for it before I jump.
So, I guess, I'm just wanting to offer some encouragement to wait until you are really ready, so you can buy a car and enjoy it stress-free, without worrying about whether you should have done it or not, etc. It just amazes me how many cars come out of the woodwork when you least expect it.
In the mean time, I can have fun buying cars vicariously through Darryl...
That is reassurance that the car has deteriorated since you owned it. If it were a great deal, Ken would have snapped it up. On the surface, $6K seems like a good price, but obviously it's not so much or it would have been bought by now, by somebody.
There are lots of cars out there, and you never know what's going to pop up for sale when you're not expecting it. I have really wanted to get into an old car again for a long time, but the timing wasn't right financially and otherwise. Three years ago, the timing was right and I found a '69 Custom S that I could get for the right price, so I made a deal, got a bank draft and was ready to go pick it up only to find that somebody from Cape Breton offered him more money and scooped it out from under me. I was really ticked off by the seller's lack of ethics and by the cut-throat attitude that can exist in this hobby. It turned me off of it for awhile actually, so I stopped looking. The following summer another car that I had an interest in, a 2006 Mustang GT with low low kms on it came up and it was so clean I couldn't pass it up (don't hang me, I also like Mustangs - I bought a 1992 LX 5.0 new back in the day - my only new car ever). So, not an old car but in many ways the best of both worlds - have had a lot of fun with it in the and don't regret the purchase one bit.
That said, I still have the itch for an "old car" (which will always mean something built before the mid 1970s... ha ha). I was considering a '72 Ventura in PEI last year that was a clean original car going super cheap, but somebody from New Glasgow got there before me - fair enough, you snooze you lose. It wasn't my dream car but just a nice little 4 door to scratch the itch.
For now, it's not really the right time for me to buy what I want but I still peruse the ads to see if there's something out there that turns my crank for a really good price. But if I don't find something right away that's OK, because the more I watch the ads the more stuff pops up that I never knew existed before. The right thing will come along, but I want to be ready for it before I jump.
So, I guess, I'm just wanting to offer some encouragement to wait until you are really ready, so you can buy a car and enjoy it stress-free, without worrying about whether you should have done it or not, etc. It just amazes me how many cars come out of the woodwork when you least expect it.
In the mean time, I can have fun buying cars vicariously through Darryl...
You thought I wouldn't read all the way through your post about Rustangs, and old man's cars to get to the last sentence eh?
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
It would be easier to get there off the ferry than Ch'town.
It wasn't my dream car but just a nice little 4 door to scratch the itch.
