I’ve been known to preach the Corvair gospel around here, extolling Chevy’s little rear-engined gem as a bargain classic. But there are bargains, and then there’s just cheap. If you ask me, $700 still counts as cheap, and that’s just what’s being asked for this ’63 Corvair Monza club coupe. We don’t have much to go on to figure out what kind of bang those bucks will buy, but let’s head here to craigslist just west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and take a look.

We really only have these two photos of the car to go on. It was last registered in 1987, and has been in indoor storage since 1996. Mileage is claimed to be just 66,000, and the ad tells us that it’s an automatic, the Corvair’s two-speed Powerglide. The Corvair flat six displaced 145 cubic inches for 1963, and Monzas were available in two states of tune, 84 or 102 horsepower. No telling which one this car has, but it’s going to need some love. The seller describes the car as both “rough as you can imagine” and having a body that is “straight [and] solid.” Make of that what you will; I doubt this paint will hold a shine, but it might look okay after heavy cleaning.

There are a lot of unknowns with this Corvair, but it’s had only two owners in one family from new and while it’s been off the road for a long time, at least it’s been indoors. Obviously, any prospective buyer should look it over carefully—and being handy is a minimum requirement to take this one on—but if this is a complete car that isn’t being eaten alive by rust, $700 is a steal. Corvairs used a lot of materials and engineering that were advanced for their time, which made them an expensive pain for GM to build, but in their collector-car afterlife, they enjoy readily available, inexpensive parts and an incredibly dedicated, helpful owner base that should make this a fun project for relatively little money. This little beauty is ripe for a revival—that’s the gospel according to me!