Thread: 51 Styleline- price?

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All right guys, went and saw the car. It is a Styleline Deluxe 4dr. sedan. It looks like it was tricked out in the 50-60's style. Has the brow over the front windsheild, visors over the headlights. burgundy paint with some flakes, white paint on the top, has some nice pinstriping. Interior matching burgundy, good condition. paint is overall pretty good actually, as is most of the chrome. of note are:

bb gun shot to front driver side fender, about a nickle size loss of the paint and the small ding of course.

small dent in hood, looks like they closed it on something in the engine bay, has cracked the paint there.

front bumper and grill look great except for one piece of the grill at far passenger side.

car rewired for 12volt but they don't know which gauges are working if any. it is a young kid (late teens early 20's?) that owns it. he drove it till a year ago, pulled engine, trans and driveline/rearend. still has original engine but rest is gone. they installed the rearend out of a 76 cutlass and have the 350/350 to go with it but they aren't installed and it isn't setup for them yet.

Ok. My friend really likes the car, and I do think it looks great, real old school kustom look. I told him 4000-4500 but gave him a run down on what I thought he'd have to pay for (he has nowhere to work on the mechanical stuff, let alone the knowledge, and I don't have any room to help him here).

My questions for my esteemed brethren:

1. those of you that have done, or have helped with the 350/350 conversion in these, what all has to be done (i.e., looks to me like there needs to be some cutting for the exhaust manifolds to fit, also looks like there is a problem with the mached up engine mount they have interferring with the steering)?

2. Is he better off taking the original engine and finding a matching transmission and driveline/rearend and going all original on that?

I told him bottom line on what he offers is how much does he like it, knowing what he'll have to spend to get it running, and that there are the problems with the paint he'll have to live with or spend money repainting, if he likes it enough he may want to offer more.

Your help is appreciated.

Red

PS
it also has the dummy spotlights mounted at the corner of the hood up close to the door posts, just for cosmetics. looks pretty cool actually.