Just ran across a 68 malibu. It is owned by an old man that is the original owner. It has 48000 original miles! Some body work needed. The bad part is it has a 6 cylinder with a column shift. Gold interior. The man has all the paperwork manual ect. He's asking $2500 I may be able to get him down. To buy and sell is it worth it?

Any input would be great guys.
Thanks Marc

Originally posted by mnm99:
Some body work needed. Need more details here...

yellow with gold interior. minor body work, Floor and trunk solid, interior clean, new tires, the car is in perfect mechanical cond. would a vin help?

how much $$$ do you need to make to have it be "worth it". Everybody is different in that regard. Some people would buy it, spend a month of saturday's on it, have a dozen tire kicker's work them over on it, sell it for $500 profit and start thinking maybe they should quit their day job. Others might need to do much better to have it "worth it". I can tell you I saw a 70 malibu at spring Carlisle that was a numbers match original owner car with a 6 in it. The body appeared very solid with old faded paint. they wanted 8000 for it.

As long as its a complete car, and its not all rotted out in the floors and truck, 2500 is a good price for long Island. Don't worry about the six, replacing the drivetrain is alot easier than repairing loads of rust.

I have a 68 307, w/ 20,000 miles if you want to do a quick budget swap.

Well I would just buy it to sell it so the whole engine swap is out. I figured if I made a little money on this thats just more towards my 70 I want. Where is a good place to get value prices? I'm just wondering how many people would want an original 6! Or how much would people spend to buy it for a build.

Thanks guys.