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Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Junior Member
Username: Dapper
Post Number: 167
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2002 - 4:06 am: | |
Good to hear Mark, we should all boycott crap cars advertised, unless as I say for spares, get them off the roads for good, they are a liability and there is always some unscrupulous trader out there prepared to disguise what happened. |
mark richards (Theneed4speed)
New member
Username: Theneed4speed
Post Number: 3
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 2:09 am: | |
thanks guys ive had an inspection done on the car
in there opinion the car was structurally unsafe.
i cant believe i even went to see the car...
i have just put a deposit on a very clean 93 348tb and
has'nt been on its roof! |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Intermediate Member
Username: Parkerfe
Post Number: 1211
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 4:52 pm: | |
If the car was properly repaired, I see no problem whatsoever. In fact, there is a FC poster whose 328 was totaled back in the late 1980s when it only had a few hundred miles on it. A front clip was installed back then and the car has been great since. In 1999 it won Platinum and Coppa Machina at the FCA National Concours at Atlanta. So it can be done. I would have a thorough inspection done as with any Ferrari purchase. |
Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Junior Member
Username: Dapper
Post Number: 163
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 4:46 pm: | |
Unless of course the rework was documented to the extent of the Bosch agent in Germany with the F40. But even then I wouldnt want topay anything even nearly approaching what a 'never bent' vehicle is valued at. |
Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Junior Member
Username: Dapper
Post Number: 162
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 4:44 pm: | |
IMO 'spares only donor', regardless of how good somebody thinks they've 'repaired' it. I would pay a price that reflected spares breakdown. Only other alternative would be a track hack for someone (but not for me)
No offence....Just being honest as I can by telling you how some of us think when out to buy.
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david handa (Davehanda)
Junior Member
Username: Davehanda
Post Number: 142
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 3:00 pm: | |
Mark, handle it like any other purchase, and get the car thoroughly inspected, to include a compression/leakdown test on the motor. What discount applies from the accident is up to you..... |
mark richards (Theneed4speed)
New member
Username: Theneed4speed
Post Number: 2
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 1:56 pm: | |
thanks for your coments .most helpfull
the car has had a roof skin only and a wing
i thourght a roof was all 1 piece
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Steve Magnusson (91tr)
Member
Username: 91tr
Post Number: 914
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 1:49 pm: | |
mark -- IMO it all gets down to price. You know the mantra from the majority here -- buy perfect, pay high. At the other extreme, if someone wanted to give me a smushed (but decently repaired, quasi-sorted, and running) 348, I wouldn't say no. To say whether it's a 20, 30, 40, whatever $K car needs a good evaluation of the unsmushing, but (unfortunately), regardless of the quality of repair, you've got to think huge discount as both a buyer and future seller IMO. |
mark richards (Theneed4speed)
New member
Username: Theneed4speed
Post Number: 1
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 12:25 pm: | |
there is a 348 that has been on its roof the body has been repaird to a very high standard,but what damage would the engine have seen ,would it still get oil presure if it was running when it went over,the car seems very straight underneath,could the car go on a jig to check alignment
would this car be worth bying,
the car has covered 5k since |