Thread: 1979 300SD
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Old 03-13-2015, 11:04 AM
MartinFT MartinFT is offline
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Originally Posted by Junkman View Post
My concern when buying old cars is that the PO or shop in this case just slops through the motions to get the car out the door. I prefer unpainted to recent paint. There is no telling the quality of the prep job. The shop is only getting ready to flip the car. $5k is a significant amount to pay for an old car especially when you don't buy from the owner.
The shop is only selling for the owner, who I believe has moved and that's probably why he's selling. I'll meet the owner there when we do the transaction. I imagine the owner is simply paying the shop some kind of commission.
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