[A Snake]

Ernie,

Buy it and put white stripes on it. It will cost a couple grand to do it right, but you'll have one hell of a car.

As posted above, the car is a good buy at 60K. Never mind the guy's prosey sales pitch. If what he says is there, really is, then it is more than worth the asking price. It is well worth going to see the car or send an expert to look it over.

And yes, Contemporary was the most authentic kit in it's day and in the time period in which this car was built. ERA was a very close second in that regard and only because they used some suspension pieces other than Jag on the front end. Contemporary's front A arms were very close to original and used Jag spindles instead of GM.

Karl is absolutely right. It ain't the basics that cost the bucks. It's all the goodies that go into making it "perfect" in the eyes of the owner. Every hotrodder who ever started out with a 30K budget and wound up 100K into it after the painter, the chrome shop and the suspension gang got done can tell you this.

Like I said above, those polished Halibrands alone are 800 bucks apiece without tires. If the rest of the car is at that level, 100k is quite probable when someone else does the work, instead of the owner.

Al