I added pictures of how I found the car sitting in the field when I went to go look at it. And as with everything in my life there is a story that goes along with it. So here it is.
I'm looking through craigs list trying to sell some stuff when I come across the ad for this car. They want 800 but will take 700 "this week". So I reply to see if they still have it. They do. The reason they do is they don't have a clean title. The people trying to sell the car have bought it from a friend who can't get it running. He bought it from a police auction a few miles from me. This was two-three years ago and the car has just been sitting since. It's been moved a few times and they have started it a few times by running gas straight into the vacuum line that goes to the underside of the TB but other than that it's just sat there.
The guy who bought it from him paid 700 for it and tried with no luck to get it running. and when he went to see about the title, he was told he would have to pay property tax twice, once to complete the transfer to the first guy and then again to transfer it to him. That was just not an option.
So I come out to take a look. I can't get too close because of all of the mud dobbers the car is infested with. It's a mess, but it's all superficial. The upholstry is amazingly in tact. The ryobi sawzal that's been tossed in the front passenger seat has not cut it. I jump on the ground and give it a quick scan and see no signs of rot. The trunk, while a mess, is solid.
The passenger side back window is gone and and there is 4 inches of water in the back floor. (5 minutes, a garbage bag and some tape, but oh well).
It's solid, complete except for the window, and I've bought worse and paid more. I tell them I want it. But we need to deal with the title issue. I ask to make some calls the following day to see what we can do about the title. For 700 bucks I'm not worried about losing money. I could part it and make it all back. So I make several calls. My buddy who runs the towing business warns me about it probably being a salvage title. That scares me, but I perservere. I call the Indianna license beauro, I call the Ohio license beauro, I call the police department that had the auction. It's not loooking good. So I call the guy who originally bought the car who is really cool about everything. I say I will pay to have the title work done and when it comes back You sing it over to me, I give the other people the 700 and we all part happy.
Well that's exactly how it works out. I take him up and we do the title work and in Indianna you have the option to send the title somewhere else so we had it sent straight to me in Cincinnati. So a week later I show up with a CLEAN title, 700, the roll back and a smile and we all parted on great terms. I'm even going back out to take everyone for a cruise so they can see what they gave up on.
I actually felt kind of bad because they were soo close yet soo far. These cars need people that will love them the way they should be. Right now that just wasn't them. Anyway, we all got what we wanted.
