Is this even worth trying to sell?

The Cliff Notes of the situation - Last year I had a Civic caged for Chumpcar.

In the first race the car was wrecked. Bad.

I was ready to walk away from it and send it to the scrap yard. One of the guys on the team suggested talking to the cage builder (CB), who has a frame table, to see if it could be fixed. I asked specifically if he thought it was a job he wanted to do. I took some pictures and CB said it should be an easy fix. He said he could cut the front off the wrecked car, cut the front off a donor and put them together. He's done it several times.

Seemed like a good enough idea.

I took the car up along with a rusty coupe for a donor. This was the first of October 2014. I asked if he thought it could be done by January. That would give a few months to get the car back together for a race we wanted to do in April. "No problem"

Christmas came and the car hadn't been touched. I went up for a couple days over the holiday and following his instructions cut the front off the wrecked car to help the project along. CB promised the car by Feb/March

I had a lot of worries that CB would have the car done so I started looking for another car. We bought an Integra and used that to race in 2015.

I started a new job in March that requires moving out of state (still working on that) and I would check in every so often on the car. Every update was the same. Promises of it being done soon but the car wasnt being touched. Sometime in the Spring both cars were pushed outside and have been sitting gathering dust. My wife and I pulled the seat and other stuff for the new Chumpcar so at least nothing is getting damaged sitting in the weather.

During the last update, CB basically said he couldn't get to it and if I wanted to pick it up I didn't owe him anything. I translated that to "Come get the cars".

I want to pull the rear suspension to use as spares for the Integra, cut the cage out and use the pipe for projects/welding practice, while scrapping all the rest. My wife is rather insistent that we try and sell it and is willing to do all the work. I honestly don't know if anybody would buy any of it in its current condition. I don't think another shop would touch it with a ten foot pole and I wouldn't want to put any more money in it.

I've moved on because I have the Integra and I just bought an E36 from this forum to build for the next car.

So I ask the masses. Is this even worth trying to sell?

bolt-in cage? Pull it and sell it. Scrap the rest.

I tried to sell a Caprice wagon shell for $300 for almost a year. Gave up and took it to the scrap yard and got $179 for it.

BUT... it can't hurt to throw it on CL for a couple weeks. You might find a body man/racer who wants to tackle the job.

curtis73 wrote: bolt-in cage? Pull it and sell it. Scrap the rest. I tried to sell a Caprice wagon shell for $300 for almost a year. Gave up and took it to the scrap yard and got $179 for it. BUT... it can't hurt to throw it on CL for a couple weeks. You might find a body man/racer who wants to tackle the job.

It has a weld in cage. My wife is saying pretty much the same thing about CL. I might be letting my general annoyance with the typical CL buyer cloud my judgement.

it looks like scrap to me, and scrap steel is .04 a pound as of yesterday.

patgizz wrote: it looks like scrap to me, and scrap steel is .04 a pound as of yesterday.

Yikes, going back down? In June I got $5.50/hundred and it was up from a winter low of $4.85.

yes on the way down. same thing, i got 6 cents in june and 4 yesterday. 1400 pounds in the back of my truck only got me $56. only got .30 for aluminum too, everything is down 33% pretty much across the board from early summer. i'm sitting on over a hundred pounds of brass and close to that in clean copper, and while i'm sick of working around it i debate whether to take it in now or hope it goes up.

logdog wrote: I've moved on ...

There you have it. Don't waste your time. Pull what you want and move on.

I you are building another identical car you can remove that cage in one piece, cut the roof of the new one and drop it straight in onto some new plates. Otherwise it's scrap.

I'd scrap it. Or pull what you want, then drop the rest at CBs shop and keep promising when you'll come get it.

sell it for scrap price to a challenger... or sell it for scrap price. that's it

bearmtnmartin wrote: I you are building another identical car you can remove that cage in one piece, cut the roof of the new one and drop it straight in onto some new plates. Otherwise it's scrap.

I like this idea. Cut roof off wrecked car and parts car. Weld existing cage into parts car and weld the roof back on. Sell as caged roller. Scrap wrecked car. In 20/20 hindsight, probably should have had CB do that instead of trying to salvage the wrecked car... Oh well.

If nobody buys it whole in a month at scrap price, cut the shell apart around the cage, cut out cage, finish chunking shell, scrap shell chunks, sell cage. Should take about 2 hours with a sawzall.