Originally posted by STRYPED BS:
Thats really cool! DO you do all the work yourself? I've been contemplating taken up doing something like this on the side. Buying some easy fixers, fix them up and sell them off.

I enjoy that kind of work, since of satisfaction to bring a dinged up ride back to nice, and make a msall penny of two doing it.



yes, I do all of the work myself. I've been doing body and engine work on the side for about 17 years. There's a lot to know about painting, but the rest of the work is fairly straight forward. I have a small puller, but I try to stay away from cars with anything more than radiator support damage. Selling them isn't always easy because NYS brands the title "salvage" which scares some people away. I show before pictures to lure them back. I have an advantage because I buy cheap (in most cases), do all of the work myself, usually I have parts cars so I don't need to buy new parts and I drive the cars for a while (for work, which is deducable) so I'm not putting everyday mileage on my other cars. Because of all of that I can usually sell the cars very cheap compared to other front yard car salesmen. I usually make a few bucks, but if I break even it's ok because I've driven the car for a while and have already made money with it by way of a tax deduction for my mileage.

These days I've been buying cars with bad engines since I have so many low mileage engines sitting around. The Contour is getting old enough where it's getting to the point of not being worth repairing some of the wrecks that I normally would've fixed. I can drop an engine in in a day and be done with it AND have a clean title car. Body work takes several days especially if paint is involved.

Parting out 95-97 Contours/Mystiques. Contact me directly at ALFIGOLS@yahoo.com if you're looking for a particular part.