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Old December 4th, 2011, 04:31 AM
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why the mid-life crisis was invented

1967 Ninety-Eight convertible. I love it.

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1967 Ninety-Eight convertible. I love it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...SS%3AUS%3A1123

Gray hair, pot belly and a '67 Ninety Eight. Yeah, baby !
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Old December 4th, 2011, 06:13 AM
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That car looks awful clean for a car from Kingston, NY, and undercoating makes me nervous.

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They should probably take a couple of minutes to tweak the exhaust so the muffler isn't hitting the driveshaft
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Old December 4th, 2011, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by allyolds68
They should probably take a couple of minutes to tweak the exhaust so the muffler isn't hitting the driveshaft
To include a close up of that is an odd decision. If you look at the close up of the nose the grille looks beat to shyt. Could be a sign of how rough it was before getting the spray job.
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Old December 4th, 2011, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by MDchanic
That car looks awful clean for a car from Kingston, NY, and undercoating makes me nervous.
I'm not trying to argue for or against the car but,

A. Lots of cars from that era were undercoated, especially if they were sold in the north. It's no automatic strike against it in my opinion. On the contrary, it could mean that the car is in better shape than it might otherwise be.

B. Just because the car was sold in the north doesn't mean it spent all it's life there. As an example, the '75 Delta 88 convertible I owned back in the '90s was originally purchased in New Jersey, but by tracing the ownership history backwards, I found that it spent most of its life in Florida, which is where it was when I bought it.

Obviously any car needs to be checked out in person before purchase, and no car that's 45 years old is going to be perfect, but this one looks pretty good, and you don't see these in this condition very often.
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Originally Posted by droptopron
If you look at the close up of the nose the grille looks beat to shyt..
I have a '67 Delta 88 with the same grille, and they're made of cheap pot metal. They all look like that. As I said above, no car 45 years old will be perfect.
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Old December 4th, 2011, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by droptopron
To include a close up of that is an odd decision.
The poor guy is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If he DIDN'T include a photo of the underside, everyone would be accusing him of hiding something. Now that he DOES include a photo from underneath, you're wondering why he did so.

The misaligned exhaust system is an easy fix.
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Anybody else see anything wrong with this picture??

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Old December 4th, 2011, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by jaunty75
Lots of cars from that era were undercoated...
Yes, but they don't look like they were undercoated yesterday .
... And the undercoating wasn't carefully applied to every surface, including the rear end.

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Anybody else see anything wrong with this picture??


Thats for making cool noises when you drive kind of like the cards in the spokes trick on your bike as a kid!
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