Godspeed Old Friend

by DiscoMalibu Wed May 08, 2013 4:50 am

Sold my '64 Mercury Monterey Marauder today for $3000. Strangely enough back to the guy I bought it from for $200 3 years ago! Well, it got a lot work since. Motor was mostly disassembled, tons of parts were missing. I put about $1400 into it, drove the crap out of it for a year and a half and had a ton of question and answer sessions with the old timers at the gas pump. I guess I can't complain too much, made a profit but I'm truly going to miss the car.

Looks like I'll be buying some '77 Malibu parts pretty soon. afro

by 77mali Wed May 08, 2013 6:01 am

Bummer...but hey that's still a pretty healthy return on investment. People buy back cars all the time, I bet he was waiting in the wings the whole time.

by Limey SE Wed May 08, 2013 9:08 am

He probaly Kiked himself in the Arse every minute after he sold it, minute it came back for sale Boom I got my back baby back baby back ribs LOL

by knightfan26917 Thu May 09, 2013 6:21 pm

Definite bummer ... but cool that you sold it to the same guy you bought it from!

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by carcass Thu May 09, 2013 10:31 pm

Thats a sweet ride all right,

but one less car means more attention to the ones you keep!! which means you go faster!

by DiscoMalibu Thu May 09, 2013 11:21 pm

Certainly true, means more time spent on my Malibu! Although it was a fun ride even though it looks like Turd

. It got plenty of attention even so, plenty of good stories from back in the day along the way. Another one gone but not forgotten, *sigh*. I guess the guy is going to finish up the odds and ends that I never got around to and drive it all summer!

by McCauley5983 Sun May 12, 2013 11:22 am

i think an old car that still has original looking paint is bad A$$ definetly looks like it couldve been an old shine runner and looks like it has a few stories too tell. I can sum up the car in one word character

by DiscoMalibu Mon May 13, 2013 1:28 am

I agree, I didn't really care what it looked like, had a great time driving it. It's been in NY all its life, purchased at a dealer in Queens.

It'll be gone by the time I get home in the morning. Sad