Should I????

Eyelean

Eyelean

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I really want to buy this 72 scamp as my next project. My plans would be to due a color change to either pink or lime green with white butt stripe and vinyl top, and drop in a 68 440/727 I have. I'm a bit scared of the 1/4's as I've never done major rust repair. I've painted a few cars, and I can do most mechanical work. Does this look like it's worth bothering with? Know anywhere I can get 1/4's without giving up my first born bastard child? The rest of the car looks to be a great start and the price is right, Bob.
 

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71dusterman said:
That butt end is sittin pretty low. I think various places have quarters for those. A's are as bad as b's for price.
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I noticed that too, I'm skeptical about the shock towers. I did a quick search and found the 1/4's for 2 bucks a side. The car is only 8 bucks and supposedly driveable. It's Been off the road for 2 months.
 
It looks like it might have some rust issues under the vinyl top too, I'd look at it real carefully, especially look at the torsion bar mounts!
 
Thanks, you're right the vinyl top looks a bit rough and you never know what's under those. I'm going to try and get an honest answer on the underside before I go look at it. It's 200 miles away. I know whatever I get is going to be a lot of work, but I don't want to deal with a rusted out basket case that's going to need wayyyy more $$$$ in rust repair than it will be worth fixing. My dart only needed a floor patch on the drivers side so I guess I was a bit spoiled for a northeast car. I'm just jonesing for a 70's a-body 2dr project, and I can't find many under 3g's. This seems too good. If the underside is ok I think I should take it. The 1/4's are kind of inevitable. Any common spots underneath I should look for? Or by the roof?
 
check the back side of the quarters, the spare tire well, the rear frame rails where they meet up with the bumper.....pay close attention to those wheel well lips...jack it up and have a look at them from the inside...do the same up front but look at the bolting area for the front fenders..crawl into the trunk with a BRIGHT flash light and look up at the back window area for a better idea of what the vynle roof damage is.....take a sharp awl or screwdriver and poke up and down the frame rails front to rear...

ive only delt with out lack of rust out this way on the west coast but the 1 basket case i found showed me the potentially other rust spots that seem to become more and more normal the further west you get
 
As long as the front and rear frames are good everything else is a piece of cake. Keep your eye on e-bay cuz sherman and associates auctions off ones with slight dings for cheap. If the issue with the roof is mid way on the C-pillar chances are that the plastic filler in the seams popped. A-bodys seem to have pretty stout roofs unlike the shit-box e-body.
 
Like Piggy says, they're not too bad to fix. With that rust, you can count on fixing the lower trunk floor extensions, inner wheelhouses and probably some work on the inner rockers. Nothing major.
The big pain in the ass is gonna be having to pull the rear glass and dealing with the rust you're going to find there. Will the vinyl be going back on?

$800 doesn't sound bad for what it looks like.
 
The 2 real places I would be concerned with are the frame rails (front and rear, especially the torsion bar mounts) and the window channels for the front and rear windows. The rails can be capped with some aftermarket parts from ABS, but the channels will have to be fabbed by hand. Most of the other sheet metal can be replaced fairly easily. If you are a lucky one the roof/quarter seam will be lead as opposed to plastic.
 
I dunno. get it for half that I would say go for it,,,, then again, I am cheap. :)
 
The big failure point on A-cars in this area are the rear torsion-bar mounts... have a real good look at that area before you buy. Bring an ice pick, in fact.
 
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