What compression, for '84 Pininfarina 2000 FI?

[2ndwind]

As usual, it depends. A non-running, SLIGHTLY-rusted car would be worth $500 to me. I don't know what he was asking for it.

I just looked at a 1970 VW Karmann Ghia convertible today. He dropped from $1000 to $800. The floor pans were good, but Swiss cheese has fewer holes and less bondo than that body. After owning a spider and K-Ghia. One's $$ is much better spent on the fiat.

I'd get a closer look at that car's floor pans, trunk, cross member, and shock towers. If pretty solid, it would be a keeper for the right price. I do worry that sitting in all that grass has encouraged under body rust.

[TulsaSpider]

Oh well he should have it in running and driving condition for that I would say.

[wikkid]

Well, the saga continues. I told him that if he wanted to be rid of the car, then I would take it for $500. Haven't heard back. I have looked at the car more, though, and I could get it running without too much effort. Running well, and with all the soft stuff (hoses, seals, tires, etc) renewed, that's another story. And the paint needs attention. Fortunately, though, even with a rough-looking exterior paint and interior, the body and structural bits are solid, and only the front sheet metal panel under the radiator and in front of the oil pan (what is that panel called?) is rusty. Everything else is solid.

A car like this would be nice to get up to "daily runner" status, and take some of the less expensive, non-restoration type of approaches to the fixes it needs.