Time to sell my 1977 Canadian Newport

commando1 said:
1. I had a set, firm, non-negotiable, set price in my head. If I didn't get it, I was going to pull it off the road, store it in a sealed room, and let people say WTF when they discover it 50 years from now.
2. I asked the most knowledgeable here what I should price it at.
The figure was really up there, but possible to get.
3. Listed it on Hemmings. I priced it a bit higher hopefully to get get the price FCBO's Best & Brightest suggested. I refused to resort to CL.
4. After 9 months... Nothing, Zero, Nada, on bona-fide inquiries.
5. Prepared sealed room.
6. Listed it on ebay with impossible reserve to see what the price point needed to be to move the car.
7. Looked at the LEGITIMATE bids after the listing ended.
8. Relisted at a generous but realistic reserve.
9. Bang. SOLD!!! It was now one year later. One year!
10. It sold for the EXACT figure I had mentioned in Line 1.
11. The sealed room was changed to a cabin smack dab in the center of a golf course.
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Thanks for the tips. Good 'ole Ebay. Hmmmm. Maybe it will take so long to sell her that my wife will move on.
 
PeugFra said:
The plant code for this 1977 Newport will also be "C", as all 2-door Newports were produced at Jefferson Assembly. I am after 1977 Belvidere-assembled cars ("D"). 1977 Newport 4-door hardtops were shared between Jefferson and Belvidere, while 4-door sedans were a Belvidere-only product.
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CL23N7C164869 is the VIN
 
commando1 said:
Formal? But of course. Nobody has beat the system yet.
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Not to brag, but I may have come as close as anyone I know... once.

First car, wrecked 74 Imperial, really ugly fiberglass cloth/resin that looked like giant piles of snot holding the broken header panel together... not my work, but I never corrected it. I never did find a front clip or enough spare change to buy one... but I wanted only the 74 grilles (I used to think they had a spring loaded mount, but mine were broken). The car had jumped a curb and run through a chain link fence (much stronger than you'd think). I bought her for $50 and a drum set I'd paid $50 for years earlier (no use for it in a one room apt).

Replaced a bent lower control arm, but never got to the bent stub frame (the strut arm had pulled the frame back a couple inches or so), so I bolted the the strut to the LCA with one bolt, in the wrong hole... and had to borrow a 10k lb porta power to do that. Replaced a dead PS pump and fooled with the rear brakes (dealer could not locate rear discs in 1986). Spent a week driving with a couple pieces of wood between the one rear caliper and leaf spring, wrapped tightly with an old coat hanger to make sure it didn't slip off while my buddy in a shop got the broken caliper bolt drilled/tapped out of the mount. Tried to tune more out of a tired and abused driveline... and beat the ever loving dog poop out of my first 440/727. Steered 2 or 10 o'clock (can't remember) to go straight.

Drove half a year, burning up the majority of my wages on gas, cigarettes and adult beverages for the "road trips" that went nowhere (I did pee on trees on front lawns all over the south hills of PGH, maybe that's why it still seems to be home). I'd drain the oil left over in the cans to keep her full (pumping gas had a few perks) and use whatever leftovers I could find for most everything else. Discovered Whitlock Automotive $1.99 fan belts were pure crap, and had to buy new shoelaces for my work boots after getting her home one evening.

18, learned a lot in a little time with her (like frame shops are NOT cheap). One Sunday, I decided to roast the tires on a brick road with a curve, and the front end let go... I can't prove it, the single bolt holding that strut had sheered, but before or after hitting the curb/guardrail will remain in question for eternity. Traded her even for 76 Volare RR that a buddy had stored in a horse pasture for a few years... open title, but we had found the old notary that would forge the signatures for you and didn't even charge us extra (later on, he was the same one that accepted a "yep" as proof of insurance too... I think I had 8 plates at one point).

I always looked when another Formal Imperial surfaced (not too often), once had a customer with a nice black 75 coupe... I thought he was nuts back then when he told me what he paid (5k) back then, turns out he still would be... :realcrazy:
 
Pclancy said:
So far the interest has been less than overwhelming. After 3 days bidding is up to $2550. I'm not giving this girl away, and so it may be she stays with me a bit longer.
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I am not surprised.
My cars have always sold on eBay but not well.
Usually after all other resources have been exhausted trying to a decent price.
 
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