For Sale Another Hurst bites the dust on the right coast

[saforwardlook]

Saw this Craigslist ad - with 70K miles, someone must have just wanted the car gone after their dad died...................

There is already a post on Moparts that suggests one of them is looking to buy the engine based on a WIW question there on a 440HP engine value and the poster is from Maryland.

Maybe a salvage title by now, so ??????????

A shame since it is one of the more rare ones with console and doesn't look bad bodywise either.



http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/cto/4870132611.html

 

[patrick66]

Ouch...!

 

[Samplingman]

What happened to that deck lid? I thought they were fiberglass?

 

[bluefury361]

Storm damage perhaps.....?

 

[patrick66]

They are metal,, IIRC. Only thing about the trunk lid that is fiberglass is the rear spoiler structure.

 

[68plymouth383]

It's a disc brake car too...

 

[azblackhemi]

Damn, it's a console car too!

 

[1970cat]

power seat and cruise too. body doesn't look to bad

 

[saforwardlook]

They are metal,, IIRC. Only thing about the trunk lid that is fiberglass is the rear spoiler structure.

The decklid on a Hurst is all fiberglass - even the understructure. The hood is a fiberglass top surface and metal underbracing. The decklids tend to warp due to constant torsion spring tension on it and will bow up in the middle. Given that, it probably wouldn't take that much to break it.

 

[cm23uoc]

I reduced spring Tension on mine after the deck lid was redone, there are different Slots to vary. Just about right to Pop out of the lock and then staying open if you put it up manually.

 

[commando1]

How can a car that they only made roughly 550 of, end up with what seems like 549 of them as junk.

Thats called an exageration btw for literary artistic license...

 

[Xavi3r]

They are metal,, IIRC. Only thing about the trunk lid that is fiberglass is the rear spoiler structure.

hum... they are fiberglas on metal structure.

 

[cm23uoc]

Trunk lid is all fiberglass on my car.

 

[saforwardlook]

The car is apparently there via the Treasury Department who ordered it destroyed and the VIN removed. However the owner of the business said he could sell it with the understanding it could not be put back on the road, and only used for parts. He wants $5500 for it complete. He also said it has a very nice under carriage and is pretty rust free, and that the mileage is 72K, and he is sure of it. Just wanted to close the loop on whats up with that car.

 

[patrick66]

I always thought the trunk lid was a metal lid with the fiberglass spoiler...but then, I've never seen a 300-H with the trunk lid open!

 

[saforwardlook]

Yeah, I have had couple in the past and so that is why I said it was all fiberglass with certainty.

 

[Beep Beep Dave]

The car is apparently there via the Treasury Department who ordered it destroyed and the VIN removed. However the owner of the business said he could sell it with the understanding it could not be put back on the road, and only used for parts. He wants $5500 for it complete. He also said it has a very nice under carriage and is pretty rust free, and that the mileage is 72K, and he is sure of it. Just wanted to close the loop on whats up with that car.

Thanks for posting up the info. I was curious. $5500 seems plenty high to me. At some point it would be worth it just to have for parts.

I too can't believe how many of these cars are projects...every week or two another one seems to surface. I still wouldn't mind on myself but I would much rather have a nice original example.

Dave

 

[1969vert500]

Here is a pic of one I have. It sure is HEAVY for all fiberglass

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

It takez something being closed in the trunk that doesn't fit to do that to that fiberglass deck lid. The under side north and south structural supportz on that lid are seriously thick. Makez yeah wonder why some ain't neutered when their young to prevent such lapez in sound judgement from happenin'.

 

[cm23uoc]

Moisture does even more to such fiberglass, especially if the paint is chipped than to metal.