Duster — Spend All That $$$ Then Sell For A Huge Loss

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Quite a nice car. Doesn't the premise behind the story happen to almost all of us, though? Think about it - all the time you spend tinkering / building /tuning the car. Assign a value to all those hours, now add the parts pricing. No one ever gets out the amount they REALLY have in the car. I think if you get half or more - you're probably doing ok. Of course, when you are talking further up the scale, such as this car, then that loss becomes a whole lot more significant. However, if your playin the game at stakes that high, the loss is probably proportionate to what many or most of us here have in similarity.
 
Typical.

I know of more well known SEMA cars that have sold for 1/2 or much less than the professional built for customer price.

If you wait too long and the cutting edge style fades away (almost always does). Then they really tank in value.

How much would most pay for a pastel painted pro street car from 1990 ???

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royslead said:
Quite a nice car. Doesn't the premise behind the story happen to almost all of us, though? Think about it - all the time you spend tinkering / building /tuning the car. Assign a value to all those hours, now add the parts pricing. No one ever gets out the amount they REALLY have in the car. I think if you get half or more - you're probably doing ok. Of course, when you are talking further up the scale, such as this car, then that loss becomes a whole lot more significant. However, if your playin the game at stakes that high, the loss is probably proportionate to what many or most of us here have in similarity.
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I’ve had this happen several times. 1969 Plymouth GTX Barn Find Discovered with $10,000 in Cash Under the Driver's Seat
 
I have a freind that likes Hemi cars including cloning Abody Hemi Darts. After a few of his deals he was a 100k in debt on his paid off house. Everyone who bought his cars made money on them.
 
Really! That car sold for 123,000, and the builder was not happy with that? If he spent 254,000 to build it, he's a fool. I don't believe that cost for one minute. There's fudge in those numbers
 
TF360 said:
Really! That car sold for 123,000, and the builder was not happy with that? If he spent 254,000 to build it, he's a fool. I don't believe that cost for one minute. There's fudge in those numbers
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I don't either
 
If he spent 254k on any car he is an idiot. If you have 254k laying around to put into a car why sell it anyway.
 
dartfreak75 said:
If he spent 254k on any car he is an idiot. If you have 254k laying around to put into a car why sell it anyway.
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Many of the custom cars you see on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine cost $250K to $750K easy. There is a ton of labor that goes into them.

But you are right, some are going to lie what they actually have in them. And there are shops that just milk well healed customers.
 
If you leave a car at a high end shop and leave the meter running, you have TOO much money and not enough restraint.
For a stock body Duster, that build price is insane. There is no chopped top, no stretched panels, nothing out of the ordinary. To me, it looks a bit fancier than my own B5 Blue Duster I had and sold in 2011:


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I know that the interior is extensively modified and it has a modern 392 Hemi but the outside looks remarkably stock.
 
Restored Mopars aren't bringing what they used to because the generation that bought them new is dying off, and someone lost money on a restored.

Yeah, and?
 
No, that isn't it.
The car build cost was waaaaaaaay too high. Whoever commissioned the build must have had enormous amounts of money and poor judgement.
The car looks great but WTF ???
 
Kern Dog said:
No, that isn't it.
The car build cost was waaaaaaaay too high. Whoever commissioned the build must have had enormous amounts of money and poor judgement.
The car looks great but WTF ???
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enormous amounts of money and poor judgment…. Plenty of people in the world for that.

just think of it as redistributing cash.

what does a million dollar yacht worth in 5 years ?
 
Its never worth it we do it because we love it...:) a car guy once said to me" "we fix 'em up, and the rich guys come and buy 'em..."
 
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Is this the member here that was buying and looking for NOS duster parts, and offering big $$$ for them?
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TF360 said:
Really! That car sold for 123,000, and the builder was not happy with that? If he spent 254,000 to build it, he's a fool. I don't believe that cost for one minute. There's fudge in those numbers
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Probably wanted $500 an hour for labor...:)
 
Kern Dog said:
If you leave a car at a high end shop and leave the meter running, you have TOO much money and not enough restraint.
For a stock body Duster, that build price is insane. There is no chopped top, no stretched panels, nothing out of the ordinary. To me, it looks a bit fancier than my own B5 Blue Duster I had and sold in 2011:


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I know that the interior is extensively modified and it has a modern 392 Hemi but the outside looks remarkably stock.
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And yours had better looking wheels on it
 
There are alot of people paying others to restore their car...I suppose its a thing now to own an old car. I told the wife" I've been doing the old car thing since I started driving at 17...its not a new game to me" keep in mind though the cars weren't 50 years old in the 80s, they were 18-20 years old then...
 
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