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<blockquote data-quote="CV355" data-source="post: 15962429" data-attributes="member: 181885"><p>'86 T-Bird Elan 5.0</p><p>Previous owner put a considerable amount of money into the car. Baer brakes, full Bose sound system, new paint job. Body had 50,000 miles, 5.0 had only a few thousand if I remember correctly. With the exception of some very minor fading on the front fascia headlight panel, the car was pristine. Bought it for $300. Put $150 into it. Sold it to a friend for $450.</p><p></p><p>'00 Mustang GT</p><p>This one still haunts me. I put $40k into the thing (on top of purchase price) to turn it into a 8s street car. The only things left to do were brakes, transmission, and underbody coating. Mostly full interior. Without going into details, it was sabotaged twice (if the buy who bought it reads this, I never lied, and everything that was sabotaged was my loss, not yours). I put it for sale after getting the transmission rebuilt and had several buyers lined up. First guy with cash gets it. A guy from PA was supposed to pick it up on July 10th for $18k. He never showed up, then called me and said his accountant told him "no." I reached out to the other buyers and they all said they already blew the money elsewhere. It left on a trailer 7/21, a few days before I moved to SC, and I sold it for $10k 3 months later because I was desperate after the job I moved for was filled while I was moving. I still owed $1500 on a personal loan I took out to finish the build in '11. Guy who bought it had the transmission rebuilt properly, cranked the boost, made 1190rwhp. He sold it for $20k to someone in Kuwait. Poor thing <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Worst part is, in early 2009 it had the stock engine with a KB 2.1 on top, 4.10's, other goodies. It could run mid 11's all day long and was perfectly streetable. My father told me "leave it alone." Had I listened...</p><p></p><p>I wish I still had it, because 7 years later (almost to the day) I now would have had the means to make it a nasty street car.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CV355, post: 15962429, member: 181885"] '86 T-Bird Elan 5.0 Previous owner put a considerable amount of money into the car. Baer brakes, full Bose sound system, new paint job. Body had 50,000 miles, 5.0 had only a few thousand if I remember correctly. With the exception of some very minor fading on the front fascia headlight panel, the car was pristine. Bought it for $300. Put $150 into it. Sold it to a friend for $450. '00 Mustang GT This one still haunts me. I put $40k into the thing (on top of purchase price) to turn it into a 8s street car. The only things left to do were brakes, transmission, and underbody coating. Mostly full interior. Without going into details, it was sabotaged twice (if the buy who bought it reads this, I never lied, and everything that was sabotaged was my loss, not yours). I put it for sale after getting the transmission rebuilt and had several buyers lined up. First guy with cash gets it. A guy from PA was supposed to pick it up on July 10th for $18k. He never showed up, then called me and said his accountant told him "no." I reached out to the other buyers and they all said they already blew the money elsewhere. It left on a trailer 7/21, a few days before I moved to SC, and I sold it for $10k 3 months later because I was desperate after the job I moved for was filled while I was moving. I still owed $1500 on a personal loan I took out to finish the build in '11. Guy who bought it had the transmission rebuilt properly, cranked the boost, made 1190rwhp. He sold it for $20k to someone in Kuwait. Poor thing :( Worst part is, in early 2009 it had the stock engine with a KB 2.1 on top, 4.10's, other goodies. It could run mid 11's all day long and was perfectly streetable. My father told me "leave it alone." Had I listened... I wish I still had it, because 7 years later (almost to the day) I now would have had the means to make it a nasty street car. [/QUOTE]
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