Seller claims it's a parts car without title, looks complete to me

For the bids on the site you are getting a bargain, wonder why the present owner has not stripped it for parts as lots of money there assuming the mechanicals are present. Buy it for parts and strip it

 

Commented in another thread. It may be a stolen car. Or it may be a valve crashed car. Or the head(s) may be warped or cracked. Or it may just need a complete mechanical and electrical going through, plus new seats an paint. When you are done it will be worth $20K again.

 

Surely not enough GOOD pictures in description. Could be a 10,000 dollar boat anchor.

 

Sounds stolen or some other shadiness going on to me. Its fairly straightforward to get a replacement title, why wouldn't the seller do that? Sounds like he's calling it a parts car to get around his lack of title.

 

It sounds like he bought it and never registered it ... so either there was some show-stopping mechanical problem (unresolved), or he could not register it for some reason (not because he lost the title, that's fixable, more likely because it's "hot"). He does not answer straightforward questions about either.

 

Sold for $10K .. establishes the bottom of the current market for a complete project, equivalent I would say to drfinks green car. Let's see if it sticks! If it does, perhaps the buyer will surface here and tell us the good news!

 

$10k seems like a lot of money for rusty parts with an unknown story...If it's back on fleabay next week we can speculate further.

 

I wonder if it had an engine?

 

I suspect the motor would not turn for the usual reason. Seller would not answer when asked if the motor turned by hand. If that is the case, the buyer doesn't have a lot of room to complain, as the seller clearly stated it's a parts car that does not run.

 

it was a legit vin, vin did not throw any red flags when run on internet stolen vehicle database (fwtw). Car had a cafax history to the point where current owner bought it from CA and brought it to MN. Sadly he did not respond to questions. All of his ebay feedback was as a buyer, never a seller which may be part of his never answering questions. People buy cars that are too much for them to handle all the time. This guy lost interest, lost the title and never registered it here in MN probably because he didn't want to pay additional sales tax when registering it on a car that he felt he got screwed on in the first place. Not sure how that immediately leads to the assumption it's a stolen car.

at $10k it's an easy recover if parted out. Perhaps it was even something super simple and the new owner found a viable project, maybe not... The I bought a mondial cab froma guy a couple years ago who was frustrated with it because the battery was always going dead. He could only drive it once or twice and have to recharge it....car didn't have an alternator belt on it. I bought it, put on a new belt and have enjoyed it ever since. Not every ferrari "project" car is a nuclear disaster

 

Dr Fink's green machine has surfaced again ... https://www.ebay.com/itm/1982-Ferrari-Mondial/391914852256?hash=item5b3ff20fa0:g:jhQAAOSwehZZ9KrO&vxp=mtr ... although it looks like he sold it to someone who is selling it again. That would be three owners in the last 3 years. The blue car discussed in this thread will probably resurface again as well.

 

for those needing closure

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1982-Ferrari-Mondial/132369121067?hash=item1ed1d07f2b:g:JlkAAOSwe51Z54wY&vxp=mtr

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1982-Ferrari-Mondial/112684228727?hash=item1a3c80e077:g:To0AAOSwn25aLdNN&vxp=mtr

Even with shipping from MN to FLA, nice little flip $