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Doubtful that it's worth $85K. Orig engine gone, needs complete resto (unless you want to leave as is) so the fact that it has 5800 miles is irrelevant. It's still a real Hemi-Cuda so definitely a desirable piece.
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Too steep for me.
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Not worth it to me either. Good luck to the eventual owner. At $85k, all possible profit will go the this seller. Can't get excited about it myself. You can buy a lot of really cool cars for what it would take to make this one car nice...and when it was finished you couldn't drive it for fear of theft, depreciation, or damage.
Not my cup of tea...but good luck to the guy who buys it.
Not my cup of tea...but good luck to the guy who buys it.
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Any R code E body is going to go for retarded money.
I think the person that buys it wont be your average joe. Its going to be someone with deep pockets and already has a 426 hemi sitting in the garage waiting for the right body to drop it back into. And it probably wont be someone too worried about making a profit. Look at these guys that pay the top builders to build them a car. Im sure the final bill is double the actual resale price of the same car. Jim
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Yep... Still can't get excited about an inoperable, incomplete, beat up ex-race car that will never be practical at the strip, on the street or in a museum.
1. Can't race it - not competitive, to expensive, etc.
2. Can't street it, too difficult to operate, too big of a risk to insure - too expensive to risk total loss.
3. Museums/Serious collectors likely won't want it, because of its mongrel status.
Seems like the above leaves this project car caught in a dreaded never never land. It is well above the reach of the average hobbyist's ability to buy/build/own. Sadly, it is also trapped by its mongrel circumstances outside the gates of Concoursia - that Shangri-La occupied only by the rare, the elite, and the provable. That leaves only fools and the nouveau riche as potential owners...which consigns it to the same ownership territory as the Batmobile and the "original" (ha) Little Red Wagon, etc.
Dunno...guess I'm not smart enough to figure this one out. Seems that, for $140-150k, one might do an awful lot of good elsewhere.
Wish the best to the seller.
1. Can't race it - not competitive, to expensive, etc.
2. Can't street it, too difficult to operate, too big of a risk to insure - too expensive to risk total loss.
3. Museums/Serious collectors likely won't want it, because of its mongrel status.
Seems like the above leaves this project car caught in a dreaded never never land. It is well above the reach of the average hobbyist's ability to buy/build/own. Sadly, it is also trapped by its mongrel circumstances outside the gates of Concoursia - that Shangri-La occupied only by the rare, the elite, and the provable. That leaves only fools and the nouveau riche as potential owners...which consigns it to the same ownership territory as the Batmobile and the "original" (ha) Little Red Wagon, etc.
Dunno...guess I'm not smart enough to figure this one out. Seems that, for $140-150k, one might do an awful lot of good elsewhere.
Wish the best to the seller.
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Dumbest line I have ever read in Dragzine
"Of all places to find a real 1970 HEMI ‘Cuda for sale, you’d think Craigslist would be last on the list. "
"Of all places to find a real 1970 HEMI ‘Cuda for sale, you’d think Craigslist would be last on the list. "
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Yeah can't see anybody wanting this. unless your just filthy rich. I would rather buy a new corvette and camaro. Price is right for what it is, but who would want that for that price.
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If I had $85k of extra money laying around, that car would be pretty high on my list of things to acquire!
I think it's cool as hell just the way it looks, and would NOT restore it. That thing would steal the show anywhere you went with it looking just as it is.
I think it's cool as hell just the way it looks, and would NOT restore it. That thing would steal the show anywhere you went with it looking just as it is.
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Man thats alot of scratch for what you are getting...I know its an R code hemi cuda but even the magazine thinks its a tough deal....The guy who owns it now , knows his mopars and has priced this car at the tip of the mountain...
even so , with these cars going for almost $300k , you could throw $75-80k at it and still make some loot..
way out of my league at this point......
even so , with these cars going for almost $300k , you could throw $75-80k at it and still make some loot..
way out of my league at this point......
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Dean, I'm shocked...SHOCKED that you wold suggest that anyone restoring a prestigious marque such as the vaunted Hemi 'Cuba would ever resort to underhanded tactics like serial number...ah...enhancement.
Don't you know that there are highly trained engine detectives who far exceed our poor skills as amateur Chevelle hacks? These courageous warriors of cast iron use their super powers to miraculously find these lost and divorced engines and restore them to their rightful locations! Their methods are veiled in a code of secrecy so hallowed that to even mention it here is almost sacrilege! Further, these shadow warriors are sworn to a code of absolute honor. No faking is allowed...they PROMISE!
Don't you know that there are highly trained engine detectives who far exceed our poor skills as amateur Chevelle hacks? These courageous warriors of cast iron use their super powers to miraculously find these lost and divorced engines and restore them to their rightful locations! Their methods are veiled in a code of secrecy so hallowed that to even mention it here is almost sacrilege! Further, these shadow warriors are sworn to a code of absolute honor. No faking is allowed...they PROMISE!
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