Brad,
Heres the story; I built this car for a great guy named John Kirpsack out of PA. about three years ago. John's neighbor and truly great friend did all the body and paint work on the car.
Dark blue, with white "pearled" stripes, with just about every option available at the time. Not a racer! Just a well built cruiser, stock 302-holley carb and a T-5 tranny.
John has diabetes which has really taken his health down in the last 18 months. I don't want to go into details, but it became impossible for him to drive the car. In fact almost all of the 1,800 miles on the car were put on by his neighbor driving John around.
You could certainly look at the car today, take a ride in the car today, but I would want a full day to prep before releasing. Although we rarely take in trades, and have never done "consignments" when John asked if I could help him by selling his beloved Cobra I couldn't say no. If you're really interested I want my guys to go over the car from top to bottom before releasing it. I plan on doing the
Oil and filter thing, perhaps a full alignment, certainly a "clean up" job and maybe a little polish before we sent it to a new home.
Some of the options: Roll bar, custom full length dash AM/FM stereo, vent wings, sunvisors, side louvers, really neat mags, etc., etc. Engine compartment is as clean as the outside, but of course with less than 2,000 miles it would be!
We're about 2 hours and 10 minutes from the North side of Cinn. real easy to find. Find your way to 70 east to Columbus. Just past Spring field about 20 miles, exit 72, London/ (I think it also says Sommerford) exit, turn left. Go to the first road, Old Columbus Rd., turn right, first drive on the left-3210-3212 Old Columbus Rd. If you get to the Marathon station you passed us!
John has well over 40K invested in the car but the selling price is right in you ball park. It wont go for 25K but you are close. Call me if you want to see the car, my cell is 740-837-0258. I will be away from the shop until mid afternoon. If you want to see it later in the afternoon or early this evening, that will not be a problem!
Since you are fairly new here, just some quick information on our shop, "Classics by Elite," and myself. We've been building custom cars and streetrods for well over 30 years. Cobras since the late 80's and am the proud organizer of a little event the Cobra family calls the "Double Venom Spring Fling"!
If your interested in knowing more just give me a call. There is still plenty of top down weather to enjoy this year!
DV... By the way.....Welcome to one of the greatest family's in the world!