Re: Buying a car sight unseen...
I have bought more than fifty cars over the years from pictures word of mouth and of course eBay Craig's list etc. some came in as exactly as advertised and some well were not quite up to snuff. And a few were just plain pleasant surprises. The last was a 1938 Pontiac sport coupe which was advertised as a straight car with some minor rust in one rocker and otherwise very straight and nice. It is more or less was was told much more rust than I expected but what do you expect form a late thirties gm product to start with. So what I am trying to say is that no matter what the pictures show, its really about what you either see for your self and from what I have found out in buying for better than fourty years is just as simple as talking to the seller. It's not always what they describe that they are selling to you. ,it's what they don't say when you ask them. A specific question about condition mechanical etc yes a few deals along the way were not great but for the most part better than 95 percent were equall or better than described. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I sure hope that it continues because I now have my eye on a unmolested all original real barn find 32 ford roadster with a untouched model b 4 Cly still intact with little if any deviation from when it left the factory floor other than being In a shed for the last 58 years.
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