Parting out A-Bodies
Can't believe how many people are parting out better cars than what I'm tryng to restore. I understand that it's hard to find decent fenders to place those are heavely damage but as long as AMD feels that it's not cost effective to run new fenders for the '64-69 'cudas, people are finding that there ability to fix up a early model Barracuda is just too expensive. I joined a Facebook Group who obviously were associated with AMD who stated that it was ok for AMD to not make '67-69 fenders because of the small number of cars produced. When I stated that I was aware that there were only approx 114,000 '70-74 Barracudas for which AMD was making new front fenders and yet they were not making them for the 140,000+, '67-69 Barracuda's that were built. They stated that there wasn't the interest in the '67-69 that there was in the '70-74. and that it not cost-effective to make new molds to make the parts. That the fenders would cost about $2000.00 a piece to produce and people wouldn't buy them. People posted the fact that they were buying used damaged fender for $500.00+ and then having to pay for 50 hours of repair work on them. They would be willing to pay the higher price for th new part. The individuals then stated that restoring and building our older cars was becoming a rich man's game. I hope they are wrongas I enjoy wrking on my old cars and I'm not rich. How do you feel about this?
(1968 Barracuda I'm building)
Can't believe how many people are parting out better cars than what I'm tryng to restore. I understand that it's hard to find decent fenders to place those are heavely damage but as long as AMD feels that it's not cost effective to run new fenders for the '64-69 'cudas, people are finding that there ability to fix up a early model Barracuda is just too expensive. I joined a Facebook Group who obviously were associated with AMD who stated that it was ok for AMD to not make '67-69 fenders because of the small number of cars produced. When I stated that I was aware that there were only approx 114,000 '70-74 Barracudas for which AMD was making new front fenders and yet they were not making them for the 140,000+, '67-69 Barracuda's that were built. They stated that there wasn't the interest in the '67-69 that there was in the '70-74. and that it not cost-effective to make new molds to make the parts. That the fenders would cost about $2000.00 a piece to produce and people wouldn't buy them. People posted the fact that they were buying used damaged fender for $500.00+ and then having to pay for 50 hours of repair work on them. They would be willing to pay the higher price for th new part. The individuals then stated that restoring and building our older cars was becoming a rich man's game. I hope they are wrongas I enjoy wrking on my old cars and I'm not rich. How do you feel about this?
(1968 Barracuda I'm building)
