eBay Fun

I listed this as an auction the other day... started it off low, or what I think of as low. $9K. 3 days and no bids so far. Man, things are rough out there in the market. I got one person emailing me and wanting me to close the auction for the opening bid price. Where do these people come from? I blocked him.

Headlight Downgrade...

Removing the Hellas from Lucille today. Why? It was an expensive upgrade and I'd just as soon not pass it on to the next owner... and have them not appreciate it. It also is just a bit overkill, being super bright. I might have gone a bit too hot with the wattage on these. :-) Anyway, took about 45 minutes to do all 4 lamps and there were no issues. If I keep the car and decide I need to drive it in the dark, I can put them back in.

A Little Tinkering

Pulled Lucille out of the garage and took off the left front wheel so I could go back into the fenderwell and re-route the heater hoses and put some ties on the wiring harness there.I had to pull the inner fender panel to do this, but it's been so long since I did the brakes and it needed to be tidied up.So that's done now. And I also undid what I had started to do with the Start-em-up kit. No point in proceeding with that if I am going to sell her off. (Still kinda torn on that issue, but I think I just need to do it.)

Radio

Been having an issue with the rear channel on the radio where it sounds very distorted. I finally called Dan Steele and asked him how much he'd charge to go through it for me again. He wanted me to try a different speaker before I pack it off for repairs so I did that today. No distortion! So I'm feeling stupid that I didn't try this earlier, but then I reconnected the original speaker and... no distortion! What happened there? Well, I guess I'll just ride it out for a bit and see what happens. Maybe I'll replace that speaker just for grinns.

Hmmm...

Well I put up a classified ad on eBay a few days ago, and I had one person come to see it tonight... he brought his dad and brother. Had pretty mixed feelings as part of me would like to sell her and part doesn't want to. But ultimately, these buyers did not make a good impression on me. I felt they completely overlooked the car as it sits and only thought about how they could turn it into a DeVille with a $5000 interior makeover. Completely didn't get the steering and brake upgrades and pretty much didn't care about anything I had done. Talked about adding some kind of plastic chrome strip to the rear window reveal... I guess I should not be surprised, but I don't approach cars that way, when someone has obviously put some work into it. You may not like what someone has done, but you have to give a little respect to the amount of work that goes into it. None of them seemed particularly mechanically inclined as "dad" did not recognize the remote oil filter and the prospective buyer asked me what the master cylinder jutting out of the cowl was. I then explained about the disc brake upgrade and the dual circuit system... he seemed astonished. I covered that in the ad and, sorry boys, but car guys that I know would pick up on that right away. I don't think this car is a good fit for them.

Pictures

Washed her up and took some pix today:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ar9xr2

Price Check

Just doing a little poking around and I decided to check the price NADA lists for this car.

NADA Guide Pricing for Series 62 coupe.

I have no definite plans to try selling... yet. But the truth is, if I had to sell one, and I might feel the need soon, this car is probably the most valuable and salable. I like her, and I've just begun to get her into the kind of shape I would like one of my cars to be in. Put some serious work into her. But she needs more and if I had to, I could part with her.