I'll admit I've made a buck or two in E-bay. I too parted a '71 Mustang Coupe Grande. No frills 302/c4 with Factory Air. I ended up making about $800 out of the car counting the $140 price tag. and still ended up with a complete PDB setup, running engine/trans, new Edelbrock intake and carb and hi-back bucket seats. The day I drug the bare body onto the car trailer (no susp) I had a guy that wanted the body alone in a bad way for the $100 asking price! I delivered it to his place in Portland for another $20! I need more of those cars!

You mentioned buying cars on E-bay. I've bought 2 and My old man has bought his Harley and his '48 Ford coupe on E-gay. The '48 Coupe was a disaster. He pays $1600 to get it shipped out enclosed from ...Massechusetts (i think) on top of the $11k price tag last January. Well it gets here in abuot 3 weeks just as planned but it was about 20x worse that any of his pictures showed or to what the guy called in great condition. There were dings and dents all over it, the pint job look like it was done with a damn roller, the fenferlacing was crap, the hood and trunk hinges/springs were non-existant, the radiatior leaked everywhere, the crap exhaust caught on the car hauler and fell off at the muffler, had a symphony of header leaks, the bucket seats leaned inward to each other, the steering column was jerry rigged in as with the brake pedal (out of what looked like an 80's caprice) The car sat soooo low it rubbed on everything and rode like a buckboard. And waht topped it off, clown-boy installed the engine SOLID with a friggen motorplate! YUCK! And he installs it with the oil pan SITTING right on the MII suspension x-member! And the MII suspension kit.... on man... I don't crap about streetrods but i know I could have at leats set the kit in 10x better that he did. There's gaps all over all the brackets fused with cobble and birdshit welds. I wouldn't DARE hit the brakes hard on this car above 50mph.... might just pass up the front suspension! Oh the old man was pissed.... his $12,600 was gone and here was the car... what could he do? Well, he still like the car but we'll have to do some major teardown and rebuild this winter. HE usually would have built one but because of his terrible health and just plain being old and tired, we coaxed him into just buying a "done" one to just enjoy....appearantly that backfired. Guess I'll be getting my streetrodding 101 this winter.

Just be careful with buying cars on E-bay. I've been lucky so far.