Thursday, October 15, 2009

Some Past Victims

I thought it might be fun to post some pictures of some past Subaru's I have worked on, most of which ended up getting parted out, but some fixed up and re-sold. It's funny that I still have pictures of most of them:

My oldest one ever - a 1975 4WD wagon. This one was parted out by a friend of mine. It ran and drove fine, but the body was in bad shape. I picked this car up for $300.


This was a $100 car from Utah. Someone had just driven it back and snapped the clutch cable. I picked it up in Manchester for a friend of mine and fixed the cable (in the dead of winter, mind you).

An old friend of mine and fellow Subaru nut, Paul. This pic he was pretending to do something on this parts Brat. As you can see, every part went to good use.


This Brat was picked up right outside of Waterbury, CT. I remember that it had 76,000 original miles. It was not a running vehicle for some reason. This was one of many very profitable parts cars. Parts were sold on e-bay. I think this car was $300.


This one I picked up in Southbury, CT. This was $100, and had an awful paint job. This one was parted out, too.


The girl who had this car thought it was alot nicer than it was. It took me almost a year for her to sell it to me. She originally wanted $1000, but finally settled on $500. It had a salvage title, but was repaired and a good runner. I later sold this car on e-bay in the $1100 range.


This car I got in Enfield, CT. It was a low mileage car with a ton of good parts. It was parked for a long time and the body was rusted. This car was parted out on e-bay. This car probably made me the most money of any parts car.

This car I got out of New York. Another good parts car.


This is Allison's current driver -- probably the nicest Subaru I have ever owned.

My current parts car. Runs and drives, motor needs cam seals and head gaskets. This is what $400 will get you today....pretty incredible. Leather interior and everything. This car will be parted and scrapped.