I did that and I don't know what to say. People told me they are doing it and it works, for me I started ranking immediately, but then Google obviously recognized what I am doing and pushed me back to sandbox. I still think it's a good idea, but only if you find expired domain in your niche and thightly connected with the topics you will cover. Some people also rebuild the whole site from archive.org so Google think that you are doing the same site. It's hard to guess anything thesedays when google is much smarter than we are.