Duster Dennis
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Was wondering what AMD charges to install their sheetmetal. Anyone know why A-body isn't listed on their drop down menu, only E-B body?
Was wondering what AMD charges to install their sheetmetal. Anyone know why A-body isn't listed on their drop down menu, only E-B body?
Did that $11,000 include the price of all of the panels and how much of the car did you have to gut for them to do those? repairs?i don't know for sure, but i suspect AMD doesn't want to do A body restorations any longer. i shipped my 69 M-Code Cuda down to them in 2015 to install a complete underbody floor pan from the firewall back to the trunk along with two complete quarter panels. i also sent a complete body shell part's car to them for many of the unique parts they didn't have. they had my car for a little over a year and the final costs were a little over $11,000.00. i will say, however, that they did an absolute perfect and professional job on my car and the repairs cannot be told from factory original construction. since 2016, AMD has cut back on a number of A-body parts that they used to sell. there are a number of factors right now that are working to destroy the collector car hobby. just a few factors are: the covid madness; the election madness; overall U.S. economic uncertainty and unemployment; disruption of the parts supply chain from China and the general downturn of the muscle car sales/auction market. if you have been watching any Mecum or Barrett-Jackson auctions lately you will see that muscle car values have dropped substantially from where they were 5 years ago. and private sellers are selling their cars also for much less. a month ago, there was a beautiful, fully restored lime-light green 70 Cuda, 440 six pack, 4 speed that was almost as nice as anything Graveyard Carz produces. that car was on the Facebook Marketplace listed in Pittsburgh, PA for $40,000! you could NOT recreate that car for anything close to that amount of money! and that was one of those "holy grail" 70 Cuda E body's that everyone raves about! i talked to AMD's shop Manager a number of times when they were working on my car and if he's still there, he was a decent guy. i would call them and just ask if they are not working on A body cars any longer. tell them they were spoke highly of by Jim Coster of Pittsburgh, PA who had the M-Code 69 yellow Cuda fastback that they rebuilt. i'm sure they will remember my car, and probably me. over the course of our dealing, they found out i was a lawyer. but who knows, if you mention my name, maybe they will immediately hang up on you!
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i don't know for sure, but i suspect AMD doesn't want to do A body restorations any longer. i shipped my 69 M-Code Cuda down to them in 2015 to install a complete underbody floor pan from the firewall back to the trunk along with two complete quarter panels. i also sent a complete body shell part's car to them for many of the unique parts they didn't have. they had my car for a little over a year and the final costs were a little over $11,000.00. i will say, however, that they did an absolute perfect and professional job on my car and the repairs cannot be told from factory original construction. since 2016, AMD has cut back on a number of A-body parts that they used to sell. there are a number of factors right now that are working to destroy the collector car hobby. just a few factors are: the covid madness; the election madness; overall U.S. economic uncertainty and unemployment; disruption of the parts supply chain from China and the general downturn of the muscle car sales/auction market. if you have been watching any Mecum or Barrett-Jackson auctions lately you will see that muscle car values have dropped substantially from where they were 5 years ago. and private sellers are selling their cars also for much less. a month ago, there was a beautiful, fully restored lime-light green 70 Cuda, 440 six pack, 4 speed that was almost as nice as anything Graveyard Carz produces. that car was on the Facebook Marketplace listed in Pittsburgh, PA for $40,000! you could NOT recreate that car for anything close to that amount of money! and that was one of those "holy grail" 70 Cuda E body's that everyone raves about! i talked to AMD's shop Manager a number of times when they were working on my car and if he's still there, he was a decent guy. i would call them and just ask if they are not working on A body cars any longer. tell them they were spoke highly of by Jim Coster of Pittsburgh, PA who had the M-Code 69 yellow Cuda fastback that they rebuilt. i'm sure they will remember my car, and probably me. over the course of our dealing, they found out i was a lawyer. but who knows, if you mention my name, maybe they will immediately hang up on you!
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AMD and A body metal? All I know is that I was told by one of their long time distributors, that they build a new warehouse, only to find it was again not big enough. They choose to get rid of the last of some Mopar models metal that move slow and IF the dist. get enough orders for a certain panel (with deposit) when they get enough orders they would repop some more. He aid, AMD needs 100 orders before making a run of a certain part #. Just what I am told.
Funny but I keep getting emails from AMD shouting about a new Ford panel they just released.
I agree with Mr. Harvard, the price Mopar and musclecars in general have been way down especially at the major auctions. This has been a trend well before the China bug and the falling employment.
Did that $11,000 include the price of all of the panels and how much of the car did you have to gut for them to do those? repairs?
Thanks Jim, I have many of AMD's A body panels for my '69 cuda except for the right rear quarter panel which they sold out of (lol, almost enough to build a complete car) that I was fortunate enough to grab before they stopped offering some things. I also have NOS front fenders, inner fenders as well as doors and most recently the rear dual exhaust splash pan. I'm not a body man so I have entertained the thought of bringing the car to AMD or whatever their facility name is but was unsure of how far down I need to disassemble the car. By the way, I know about your M code car which the previous owner(s) literally trashed before you purchased it. Sad you had to destroy that other car but it was for a good cause.one thing i do want to say - i had a very hard time sending the blue car shell to AMD just to be cut up! that car came from Arizona and there was NO rust on it anywhere! just a little surface rust here and there. you almost could have hit that car with a little sandpaper, primed it and painted it the way it was. i kind of loved that blue car because it was so nice and if if it wasn't "giving its life" to save one of the very rare M-Code Cudas, i would have NEVER sent that Arizona car to be cut up! i have 4 of these cars and treat all of them and all the parts i have with a great deal of "respect."
Thanks Jim, I have many of AMD's A body panels for my '69 cuda except for the right rear quarter panel which they sold out of (lol, almost enough to build a complete car) that I was fortunate enough to grab before they stopped offering some things. I also have NOS front fenders, inner fenders as well as doors and most recently the rear dual exhaust splash pan. I'm not a body man so I have entertained the thought of bringing the car to AMD or whatever their facility name is but was unsure of how far down I need to disassemble the car. By the way, I know about your M code car which the previous owner(s) literally trashed before you purchased it. Sad you had to destroy that other car but it was for a good cause.