I guess this is not the right place to post this but what the hell. So I see these two "RUST FREE" 1955 Ford fenders on Craigslist for 225.00 . I call the guy three times and he tells me how clean they are . SO I get in my car and travel 200 miles from NY to Maryland. When I get ther of course the fenders are filled with Bondo and rusted in the headlight area. I was speechless I said to him you said they were free of rust. But I think what he meant is the rust is free I would not have to pay for it. I did not buy the fenders could not see throwing good money after bad tolls and gas were 100 dollars. Anyway if anyone knows of clean set of fenders let me know thanks.

That just sucks, I hate it when guys misrepresent stuff on ebay or craigslist. Usually you can weed out the jokers. I bought a 57 fender from a local craigslist add, it truly was rust free, $150. Only had to drive 30 miles. Turns out the guy had a fine 64 fairlane, with a 302, t-5, black over red interior, we became friends.





thanks, Mark

So "rust free = free rust " ......what a bonehead . I've never bought off the internet and with all the horror stories I hear / read , I just might avoid it completely . Nothing like driving over in person to settle things .



T

Years ago I was looking for a car for a girlfriend so I called about this van and asked if it had any rust and was told no,so I drive by and see it parked on the street with patches screwed to the body covering the rust so I did not stop.

Butchering up everything I can get my hands on in Dayton Ohio

These types are what hurts online sales. The vast majority of the people out there are honest about what they are selling. But that just makes it harder to weed out the chumps. Always make sure you read the entire ad. There was one I saw with a dirt cheap price on a 57 Thunderbird. Had great pictures of a very nice bird. After he last line of text I had to scroll down about 2 pages of blank to get to the line at the bottom of the page. It said "auction is for picture only". I contacted EBAY but the auction closed with bids before they did anything. By the way contacted EBAY is now outsourced to the third world so expect language problems.

I have often thought we should have a block on this forum where we can post the names and info on sellers that are bad. I would list identifying information and web sites. This would have to be kept to serious offenders though and only after exhausting efforts to have the problem corrected.

I have only had a couple of bad experiences on EBAY over the last 10 years and they are well offset by the succesful transactions. Not to mending finding parts that I either can't find or didn't know I needed!

If you look at the prices that are showing up for Y-block  parts the nut cases are coming out of the woodwork. They all think any part is gold and price it that way. If your not sure of the fitment or value of a part post a question here!

If everyone would put a general location in their tag line it would help. We could look at members near the listed product and ask if anyone has knowledge of the seller or if they could possibly look the item over for us. I would be glad to pay a member for their gas to make sure I wasn't bidding on a "turkey". Especially when buying a complet car or driveline.

Well thats my 4 bits sorry for the long winded post. Chuck

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Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

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Thanks for all the feedback , just wanted to make sure I was not crazy, my wife said I was for taking the 8 hour drive . But she is not a car guy

Even if they were mint, NOS fenders at a junkyard price my wife would think the trip was not worth the time. She just dosen't do cars! Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire