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jfman

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A lot of people keep saying that chevelles are getter rarer as the years go by... But shouldn't it be the other way around ?

I mean so many people are fixing chevelles back up that it seems to me that the amount of road worthy chevelles should be growing every year instead of coming down.

Anybody agree with me ?

My chevelle has been sitting for a while now and in a year or so, it will be back on the road, one more chevelle on the road.

Just a thought
 
Around here you can't even find one worth fixing up. Anything worth while has already been done. There are lots of them on the road though. Some good. Some not so good. For the price of a poor quality Chevelle, you can have a pretty nice Cutlass or Lemans.
 
The thing is, so many have either rusted out, or been crushed in accidents that the ones that are left and in decent shape are harder and harder to find.

Especially when your going back close to or over 40 years.

I agree, more are getting restored now days but I still will wager that close to half of the Chevelles ever produced are setting in junk yards or have been crushed and are now parts or they are sitting in a barn or field rusting away.
 
Good, decently priced ones are rare.

Junk, overpriced ones are everywhere you look.


And the sad thing is, everyone thinks there's is good
Yep, this is very true....I have ran into several people selling what is proclaimed as a "good car to start with"......then when I go over their house to look at it what I find is a totally rusted out/missing parts off of it/non running car that needs EVERYTHING.

In fact one guy in particular (not on this board BTW) wanted to sell me a '72 Chevelle for $2700....it was covored in surface rust, floor pans were completely rusted out, didn't run....I paid $200 less than that for my car with the factory floor boards still intact (a little surface rust on the pass. side floor board), engine ran/trans worked, needed interior work. And to top it off it had a fairly fresh paint job. This was 2 years ago BTW.

To me a good car to start with is one with minimal rust that is otherwise solid, maybe needs a trim piece or two, but 95% of the car is still there and not corroded away or missing a ton of parts.

Seems like most of the "good cars" that are still reasonbly priced are in Arizona or Southern California. Anywhere else you're either going to pay out the nose for a hopefully properly restored car or you're still going to pay out the nose for something that needs so much body/interior/engine/transmission/drivetrain work done to it, that it would be better off as a parts car.
 
I brought mine back from the Dead, probably shoulda left it where it was. But it's almost done now.
Me too. But, a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

I don't think I have more in it than its worth now, but at one
time, that was not the case. If prices go back down I'll be hurtin again.
Not selling anyway, so it really doesn't matter.
 
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I brought mine back from the Dead, probably shoulda left it where it was. But it's almost done now.

I'm going thru what you went thru. My car is very solid but it needs everything. Seemed like the best option for me as well considering the alternative of buying a already so called "restored" one for the price I'll have in mine with all the goodies I want on it.

If you want you car done your way... you gotta pay all that money on top of the price of a restored one.

The downside to that is having to wait and work on your project for a long time before you can reap the benefits....
 
there was a finite # made, so reality is, you can never have more, unless one of these companies that are popping out camaro's and 57 chevy's jumps in, which i here might be soon, then take all the ones destroyed in your local saturdaynight dirt track racing, take into account drunk drivers, cars that were totaled and shredded, then take the high end museums, and collectors, who hoard these rides, the incresaed population, scam artists, hacks, thefts, etc...etc...

i'm lucky to be in area where collector cars are the norm, heck a boss 302 just went by, but i bet there are lots of places, where muscle cars are just seen during cruise nights and shows.

in the muscle car arena, there are way more desirable models on the road than made, very few ss or tri powered, or hemi cars sold, but go to a show, and you'll see many. they say there are about 70% more gto's on the road than were made.

when i was growing up, there was two ss's, and one heavy chevy in my neighborhood, today within a block of my home, there are probably a dozen ss's, several gto's, a dart gt, a cougar 390, two 65 mustang fastbacks, countless corvettes, and the list goes on.

i sometimes think there are more muscle cars out there than were around when i was a kid in the actual era, but i think it's just everything else looks to be a bubble car, so i can see a muscle car a mile away.

remeber when these cars were actually new, many familes could barely afford one car, and if you had two, one was a truck or wagon, and everbody i know that has a muscle car, usually has more than one.

so they are becoming more scarce....

to show you how bad it's getting around here, in these parts, this is considered a good deal, if i had the talent and $, i'd probably bring it home, but these cars are best served by guys like lance-w....

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/car/218864022.html
 
Stopped at McDs' for lunch. Talked to a guy hauling a 66 on a trailer a few weeks ago. He came down from Canada to pick it up in Missouri. It was originally a big block 4 speed car with a bench seat but not an SS. Had no motor or trans but still had a 12 bolt posi. Not a lot of rust but had a quarter almost ripped off. They said that was why it was parked. It was last liscensed in 1976. The guy bought it for 500.00 sight unseen. He said it took them a better part of a day to get it out of the trees behind a barn. It was sitting on wooden log sections about 2ft off the ground (explained the good frame) and had a 12" diameter oak growing between the crossmember and firewall. They also had to cut down two other trees to get the car from behind the barn. I only found one small rust spot on the floor. Couldn't look inside except through the windows becase of bumble bees inside! The guy had been looking for a relatively solid reasonable priced 66 for 2 years.
 
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I'm from Canada and my friends cant believe the car I found and the coundition it was in.

They got 2002's up there with rust holes so a rebuildable classic is hard to come by.

My uncle had a '69 mustang in 1982 and he had to scrap it due to rust.

An my cousin just got done doing a $15k frame off resto on a 4 door Dart swinger because that is all he could find to rebuild.

I'm thinking about buying a couple of Georgia shells.cars and sending them to Canada for a quick buck...

My chevelle in Quebec would be worth a lot more than what I poaid for it.
 
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