"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
02/29/2016 at 12:21 • Filed to: Monday's
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"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
02/29/2016 at 12:21 • Filed to: Monday's | 1
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So far, I’ve been to one dealer and I’m at the independent shop that fixed my Astra two years ago now. ‘57-58 Chevy I saw down the street from my school for your time.
The dealer quote for a new bumper cover, grille shutter, and fog lights and labor was a whopping $2100!! I wasn’t expecting that number at all.
Don’t know what the independent number will be, but I have a contingency plan if this fails. One of my ST friends has offered his bumper to me for $200 when he gets a new one and the old one repaired. I’ll have that one repainted, order new fog lights and such and do the work myself.
You know the unusual cruel twist about this all? The incident with my Astra happened January 26th, 2014. The ST’s was February 26, 2016. Two years and a month exactly. Maybe blue FWD hatchbacks aren’t for me....Live and learn.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
02/29/2016 at 12:26 |
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That ‘57, wow. In good shape those go for mindboggling amounts of money, even in a four-door - it is, after all a Bel Air trim and not a 210. I can only assume the owner is just being stubborn - he must have had offers.
JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/29/2016 at 12:55 |
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And the current fashionable trend is to just throw a clear coat on top and call it a day. Which I think would look good on that Bel Air
Anon
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
02/29/2016 at 13:05 |
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I didn’t realize you lived in europe.
DasWauto
> Anon
02/29/2016 at 13:10 |
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Saturn Astra, not Opel or Vauxhall.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
02/29/2016 at 13:21 |
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It needs to get de-mildewed, rubbed out, and have the rust on the door stabilized and cleaned up a bit first. That way the clearcoat leaves it looking shopworn, not “still stuck in the woods”.
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JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/29/2016 at 13:24 |
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Agreed and it looks like the bottom of the passenger door is a big rust hole
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
02/29/2016 at 13:30 |
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I just checked, and the two-door door skins are new <$300 - while they’re cheaper and more easy to find than the four doors, it would be easy-peasy to just cut one down. Anyone competent enough to replace the skin in the first place would be able to work with the longer skin.
camaroboy68ss
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/29/2016 at 13:33 |
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Restored it would be tops a $25k maybe $30k car mainly because it’s a 4 door sedan not a hardtop even with it being a Bel Air. Those 4 door hard tops bring the big money lately since they are a fairly rare car.
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JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/29/2016 at 13:39 |
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The irony that the two door is easier to find is quite amusing when the four door was more common. But such is the life of car collectors hating on anything with four doors
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> camaroboy68ss
02/29/2016 at 13:43 |
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I figured you might check in on this - you’d be kind of my go-to if I were ever doing a serious search for Chevy or more likely a tri-five Pontiac. I have a buddy whose dad got a pristine two-door BA hardtop back in the 80s and made a lot back a decade or so later... but kicked himself for selling because he wasn’t anywhere near the height of the bubble. There’s somebody on my street or who knows somebody on my street that has a ‘57 two door hardtop with fat tires in the back, but I can’t swear it didn’t start out as a 210, and it’s got to only be worth good hot rod money, not untouched money. I didn’t know the four door hardtops had been going up, good to know.
But yeah, even with a lower cap, I can’t believe Rusty Bel Air Guy hasn’t been getting offers left and right.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
02/29/2016 at 13:48 |
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Seriously: a door skin for a four door is going for 60%+ more than a two door just because everybody and his mother have been dragging out their dead two-doors and trying to turn them into money, and that needs fresh tin. There was a build thread on a Mopar B-body forum I read a couple years back where a guy had always wanted a two-door, but ended up making a two-door out of a four door because the four door shell cost him peanuts and the fresh door metal for a two door was so cheap - that, and he had the opportunity to tighten up the the wheelbase for weight reasons. Guy was a nut, but it was a cool project.
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JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/29/2016 at 13:56 |
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Sounds nuts and expensive
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
02/29/2016 at 14:03 |
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I *think* it was an early 70s Coronet or Satellite. I could be wrong, though - could have been like a ‘75 Fury.
Guy wanted more weight over the rear tires and to make the rear overhang a lot sillier.
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camaroboy68ss
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/29/2016 at 14:23 |
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Mainly because it’s a 4 door there is still a stigmatism on tri five 4 doors in both the restoration and hot rod crowds. To most that’s a parts car because soon much can be transplanted to a two door. I know of a couple guys who have taken the challenge into turning a 4 door into a correct looking 2 door but for the amount of labor you could have bought a 2 door.
As for 57 2 door you know of chances are if its a true hardtop (no b pillar) more than likely it's a Bel Air, they built way more Bel Air 2 door hard tops than 210 Hardtops.
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JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/29/2016 at 16:11 |
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That's a very unique project for sure. I bet most are in the junk yard