Crap! What would do this?

[OutlawAlice]

I went to look at a bug that was for sale locally, and other than the fact that the rust was too bad, I saw this....

He had no explanation (that he was willing to give) and he had the motor replaced.

WTF is this? Looks like it's directly over the gas filler tube.
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1999 Honda Granny Car
1951 Cadillac Kustom
2008 Dodge Hemi That Does Awesome Burnouts
A shit-ton of antique bicycles
A couple of mini-bikes
A pair of roller skates


Of course I perform a good deed everyday. I want to kill someone, but I don't.

[jzjames]

It looks like the hood came down on a can of areosol undercoating.

[JDub113]

I know exactly what it is. Its old fuel. I had the same nasty splatter when I blew out my clogged metal fuel line with an air compressor. Its nasty and hard to get off, in fact I think my splatter mark is still there too.

[OutlawAlice]

Wow. I never would have thought old fuel!

I wish he'd taken better car of it. It makes me mad to see it sitting there.

We tried to buy it from him, but he's lost his mind on the price.

He took the paint off with airplane stripper and then rolled it out of the garage to have his driveway paved and left it to sit in the weather for 2 years. AFTER paying $3000 for a rebuilt engine. It's 100% there, 1966 with accessories.

It even has the dealer sticker on the decklid.

So sad...
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1966 Beetle
1999 Honda Granny Car
1951 Cadillac Kustom
2008 Dodge Hemi That Does Awesome Burnouts
A shit-ton of antique bicycles
A couple of mini-bikes
A pair of roller skates


Of course I perform a good deed everyday. I want to kill someone, but I don't.

[JDub113]

How much was he asking?

This is under my hood...

[RareAir]

Looks like that hood was once used as a snow sled. Some kid must have came down the mtn a little faster than he wanted, and let it rip outside his pants
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1966 Typ 241

[OutlawAlice]

$1000 Firm - here's a couple of pics of things that turned me off...

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1966 Beetle
1999 Honda Granny Car
1951 Cadillac Kustom
2008 Dodge Hemi That Does Awesome Burnouts
A shit-ton of antique bicycles
A couple of mini-bikes
A pair of roller skates


Of course I perform a good deed everyday. I want to kill someone, but I don't.

[crowe66]

little more than surface rust going on there.....

offer him the cost of a sawsall blade.....lol....just kidding

[OutlawAlice]

[JDub113]

wow, that is too rusty! too bad indeed.

[Jerry Hundley]

Theres no way it's worth a $1000
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[Louie Macias]

Forget about that one homie, there are better ones out there.
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[dakdak]

Nothing really salvagable there. Not even for $100.00 Shame.

Looks like another one to beetle heaven.
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[swhitcomb]

That can be fixed. Even the hole in the drip rail isn't as hard as it looks. Ask me how I know. $200 is a better price though. I too have a bug that an old man let rot. Luckily he sold it to the guy I got it from. 30 years it sat. Many of the same rust issues. A little media blasting will change the whole look of that car.
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[Rowroy]

[OutlawAlice]

I agree it's a salvageable project. The pan is good, so is the dash, steering wheel, etc. Even the seat frames are solid and it has a clear title.

He says he paid $3000 for the engine and to have it installed. I just don't see that especially when he never drove it after having the engine put in.

The engine is why he says he won't come off the $1000. We told him that since he let it sit, even the motor isn't worth that.

He's of the mind that because he put lots of money in it 5 years ago, but then let it sit and rot, it's still worth what he put into it. Not.

We tried to offer him $500 for the motor and steering wheel. I think the motor is worth that. But nope, if he parts it, he wants the $3000 for the motor.

Not gonna happen.
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1966 Beetle
1999 Honda Granny Car
1951 Cadillac Kustom
2008 Dodge Hemi That Does Awesome Burnouts
A shit-ton of antique bicycles
A couple of mini-bikes
A pair of roller skates


Of course I perform a good deed everyday. I want to kill someone, but I don't.

[KTPhil]

Agreed, unless you can start it (and some say drive the car) with the new motor, a "rebuilt motor" is not worth anything but the tin and accessories you can see with your own eyes are good.

[OutlawAlice]

[vwsteve]

It doesn't look that bad to me for an East coast car. I would fix it, I wouldn't pay 1000 though, maybe 600.

[hitest]

That's a parts car- or fodder for a SC Coastal artificial reef.
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