A friend of mine was at an auction and a 69 SS convertible clone came up for auction...black on black with black interior and white SS stripes..Very nice car!!! The owner had a $28,000 reserve on it but it only got a $21,000 bid so he didnt sell it..whats your opinion on the value of this car:confused: ? Also I have a 68 malibu being restored now and I am thinking of SS big block cloneing it...any comments on what the value of this car would be? Thanks

DO NOT CLONE IT! Do a resto-mod on it with all the good aftermarkit performance parts. Now that would be cool. Check-out Scott's '71 Malibu in the April issue of popular hot rodding. Or how about Brian English's '69 Malibu in the march issue of phr. He didn't have any trouble selling that car. Non ss cars can be very worthy if done right.

A friend of mine was at an auction and a 69 SS convertible clone came up for auction...black on black with black interior and white SS stripes..Very nice car!!! The owner had a $28,000 reserve on it but it only got a $21,000 bid so he didnt sell it..whats your opinion on the value of this car

Clone or not, if it was really a nice car, it should bring $28K all day long.

I have to agree with the person that said resotre it as is
In Tucson a million years ago, a Suit " guy worked for Hughes Aircraft " or something like that, had this Beautiful 68 Nova, bench, column, and one NASTY ass roller smallblock, posi, and vette rallys, one of the most beautiful nova's I have ever seen.


Its all good guys

Agreed, 28K for a well done clone is well worth it. People just don't understand how expensive it is to do a clone nowadays. I had about 25K in mine BEFORE I put the 502, Moser 9 inch and Wilwood disc's on it. As for what to do with it, well I WOULD clone it or go original only because almost every resto-mod I've seen was done with the latest tricks for the time and eventually those tricks get old, the stock/clone car will never get boring. Don't get me wrong, resto-mods like Scotts are incredible and will appeal to some but not all. I don't know of one Chevelle freak that doesn't like the car in it's purist form. Dang man I've caught flack for pulling the 402 and 12 bolt out of mine so I speak first hand! Bottom line is do what makes you proud to own the thing and if someone doesn't like it; smile, get in and let them smell burnt rubber as you depart the area!

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world.
You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Obviously at this particular auction at that particular time, one buyer valued the car at $21K and the seller at $28K so it didn't sell. Now if TWO buyers thought the car was worth more than $21K to them, it would have driven the price up.

Remember the GM Futureliner at BJ? Owners hoped to bring $600K but buyers thought it was worth more and it sold for $4M. So, what's it really worth and to whom? Another example is the racing history of the LS6 convertible that sold for over $1M. It was restored to factory specs, not racing specs, and had vinyl decals/names and not the original painted ones. What made it worth so much more than another restored LS6 convertible? At least TWO people wanted it. :thumbsup:

I would say the value was 21,000