Hi folks!
I’d like to first thank the board for allowing me to post. I live in Central Florida and have stumbled across a free car that might be of interest to you. The story....I smoke cigars at Mt. Dora Cigars with many well-to-do senior gentleman. They seem to take a shine to me as I’m a youngster at only 55 years of age. One of the fellows has a friend who unfortunately is going to hospice and his family needs to sell his house and simply remove a car he has stored under a car port since 1975. The car is apparently a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine V. As you can see in the pictures, it wasn’t properly stored, but appears to have been used as a table, with boards and other stuff placed on top. It doesn’t look like water was getting to it consistently, but it is a convertible that was open to the elements for almost 45 years. I don’t know why it was parked and the owner is no longer able to communicate. The car is offfered free to me if I can tow it off the property.
As evidenced in my user name, I’m a Corvette guy and have garage restored several cars over the years. The car looks to be 100% intact from what I can see from its current location. It looks to be original paint on a body never hit and I pried the hood up a bit to see what appears to the original motor etc. I could only find one small spot of rust on the body where two panels where joined. Other than that, it appears to be a solid resto candidate.
So...this about the sum total of what I know regarding this car. I’ve got a spot to store it while I try to sell it, but I also have a wife who would likely object if it sat for months during the process. So, to make my life easier, does an Alpine in this rather unknown condition have value? With the info I have, what is the low/high side value I could expect if I pull it out and put it up for sale? The slam dunk would be one of you guys who are reasonably close coming to the extraction, buying it and delivering it to your garage for restoration.
The Alpines are real cool and I’d love to fix it up myself, but another long term project isn’t in the cards for me at this time. So...what do you guys think? Is it worth the effort and likely $350 to get the car out and towed to my property?
I’d like to first thank the board for allowing me to post. I live in Central Florida and have stumbled across a free car that might be of interest to you. The story....I smoke cigars at Mt. Dora Cigars with many well-to-do senior gentleman. They seem to take a shine to me as I’m a youngster at only 55 years of age. One of the fellows has a friend who unfortunately is going to hospice and his family needs to sell his house and simply remove a car he has stored under a car port since 1975. The car is apparently a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine V. As you can see in the pictures, it wasn’t properly stored, but appears to have been used as a table, with boards and other stuff placed on top. It doesn’t look like water was getting to it consistently, but it is a convertible that was open to the elements for almost 45 years. I don’t know why it was parked and the owner is no longer able to communicate. The car is offfered free to me if I can tow it off the property.
As evidenced in my user name, I’m a Corvette guy and have garage restored several cars over the years. The car looks to be 100% intact from what I can see from its current location. It looks to be original paint on a body never hit and I pried the hood up a bit to see what appears to the original motor etc. I could only find one small spot of rust on the body where two panels where joined. Other than that, it appears to be a solid resto candidate.
So...this about the sum total of what I know regarding this car. I’ve got a spot to store it while I try to sell it, but I also have a wife who would likely object if it sat for months during the process. So, to make my life easier, does an Alpine in this rather unknown condition have value? With the info I have, what is the low/high side value I could expect if I pull it out and put it up for sale? The slam dunk would be one of you guys who are reasonably close coming to the extraction, buying it and delivering it to your garage for restoration.
The Alpines are real cool and I’d love to fix it up myself, but another long term project isn’t in the cards for me at this time. So...what do you guys think? Is it worth the effort and likely $350 to get the car out and towed to my property?