For Sale Blue 1970 Merc Marquis Convert Gateway CC $43,995

[Carmine]

Here's some of their handy work from the latest neg.

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I see fuses. What's the issue?

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Really? You don't see any issues with wiring directly to the battery?

Maybe I shud'da put up a enlargement of the firewall.

 

[Carmine]

Really? You don't see any issues with wiring directly to the battery?

Maybe I shud'da put up a enlargement of the firewall.

You miss heap-big sarcasm white buffalo.

 

[Big_John]

I think Gateway is one of those consignment dealers. They don't own the inventory and I would say that they aren't too responsible for what the cars are. If it's shiny, and they can sell it, they take it on.

Pretty good business model.. No money invested in the "floor plan" and all they have to do is advertise and show the cars.

 

[commando1]

I think Gateway is one of those consignment dealers. They don't own the inventory and I would say that they aren't too responsible for what the cars are. If it's shiny, and they can sell it, they take it on.

Pretty good business model.. No money invested in the "floor plan" and all they have to do is advertise and show the cars.

I heard that they make their money by charging a storage fee while the vehicle is under consignment and sitting on their floor.
I heard this from a guy who said he does this as the cheapest way to get his cars stored in an insured, secure, climate controlled building. He, at the time had a 100+ Fords.

 

[Big_John]

I heard that they make their money by charging a storage fee while the vehicle is under consignment and sitting on their floor.
I heard this from a guy who said he does this as the cheapest way to get his cars stored in an insured, secure, climate controlled building.

Geez.. Even better... Get storage fees for the cars that sit there. Brilliant. Probably pay the salesmen straight commission too.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

You miss heap-big sarcasm white buffalo.

Yea oh well, a emoji wudda helped or better yet a meme.

 

[tbm3fan]

Just looked at hagerty and 36,700 is concours price.

Hagerty is so beyond the pale most times and this is one time. First, in order to be considered concours the car has to have been recently restored by a known professional car restorer. This isn't it so that eliminates it from Condition 1 automatically and drops it to a #2. Even if #1 Concours the price listed is pretty much double what one should even think of paying. Being #2 I'd put it under $20,000 easily. Only I wouldn't be so generous with a #2 given all the errors it is a #3 if I could ever get close enough to judge the car.

What else? It does not have a 429 Cobra Jet engine. All full size Ford/Mercury cars received the standard 429 Thunder Jet engine with 360 HP. The 429 Cobra Jet was only used in the 70-71 mid-size cars and 71 pony car.

Next, look at that engine compartment. Once again the wrong damn color. Concours and the clowns can't get Dark Ford Blue right! Then we have an aftermarket intake and a relay screwed into the firewall with a red spliced wire coming out. Incorrect overflow container. Incorrect color on hood springs which are bare metal. Black overspray paint on the rusted master cylinder and paint on the rusted bare zinc plated top. Hood insulation missing. Blue painted hood bumper!!! Obviously the wrong air cleaner. Dented wheel trim mouldings. Paint maybe right as there are chips that match the paint color. However, the Vehicle Certification Label is missing from the driver's door. Beach towel in the trunk. No spare and who laid out the trunk weatherstrip? The remnants of a trailer hitch in the back and a half assed job removing some of it. The front suspension hasn't been touched therefore not restored. I'm doing mine right now. The car is a hack job, a piece of ****.

Stayed away from the interior as I had enough as it is all wrong anyway concerning the seats.

This is an insult to any and all who restore cars and then have something like this come along and say restored.

 

[polara71]

But since guides are so out in left field it's all moot

 

[LeBaron1973]

Hagerty is so beyond the pale most times and this is one time. First, in order to be considered concours the car has to have been recently restored by a known professional car restorer. This isn't it so that eliminates it from Condition 1 automatically and drops it to a #2. Even if #1 Concours the price listed is pretty much double what one should even think of paying. Being #2 I'd put it under $20,000 easily. Only I wouldn't be so generous with a #2 given all the errors it is a #3 if I could ever get close enough to judge the car.

What else? It does not have a 429 Cobra Jet engine. All full size Ford/Mercury cars received the standard 429 Thunder Jet engine with 360 HP. The 429 Cobra Jet was only used in the 70-71 mid-size cars and 71 pony car.

Next, look at that engine compartment. Once again the wrong damn color. Concours and the clowns can't get Dark Ford Blue right! Then we have an aftermarket intake and a relay screwed into the firewall with a red spliced wire coming out. Incorrect overflow container. Incorrect color on hood springs which are bare metal. Black overspray paint on the rusted master cylinder and paint on the rusted bare zinc plated top. Hood insulation missing. Blue painted hood bumper!!! Obviously the wrong air cleaner. Dented wheel trim mouldings. Paint maybe right as there are chips that match the paint color. However, the Vehicle Certification Label is missing from the driver's door. Beach towel in the trunk. No spare and who laid out the trunk weatherstrip? The remnants of a trailer hitch in the back and a half assed job removing some of it. The front suspension hasn't been touched therefore not restored. I'm doing mine right now. The car is a hack job, a piece of ****.

Stayed away from the interior as I had enough as it is all wrong anyway concerning the seats.

This is an insult to any and all who restore cars and then have something like this come along and say restored.

I suppose their definition of restored is new paint and a quick go over. If I wanted it and it was done well, the painted hood springs wouldn't worry me as it'd be a fun car to drive not one to be judged. Anyway, a badly done job vastly overpriced.

 

[tbm3fan]

I suppose their definition of restored is new paint and a quick go over. If I wanted it and it was done well, the painted hood springs wouldn't worry me as it'd be a fun car to drive not one to be judged. Anyway, a badly done job vastly overpriced.

The painted hood springs in and of themselves are not an issue. The issue is what they represent. They represent careless work (where else?) and attention to detail with the sole focus on just getting it done. Can't abide that and never do that myself personally or professionally.