The Price of Corn (or Mopars)

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Sully1190

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This was just a curiosity really. While our A Bodies are staying in a relatively reasonable price range, seems like the more famous Mopar muscle has inflated to ridiculous prices. Chargers and Roadrunners are on the higher end, at least to me it seems. Comparable in price to the more sought after muscle of the other big brands. But the E Bodies are just /crazy/ expensive.

My question I wanted to ask was, are these vehicles actually selling for the amounts that I see everywhere? Or are these sellers having to just hold onto their vehicles, refusing to sell them for anything less? I know you see crazy stuff every once and a while. Some guy with a complete rust bucket wants to sell it for an absurd amount because of an obscure option/so buyers can get the numbers off it for their clones. But I haven't even seen a barracuda (E) or a challenger that the engine will turn over in for anything short of like 6.5k.

So basically, are they selling for this? Or is it all just show?
 
Here in Colorado, I have seen barely salvageable mopars like a 70 or 71 cuda and a 69 charger sell for 12k and be in horrible condition... at the same time I saw a 73 scamp sell for 1200..and it was in great shape...I guess peolpe think that only the full sized mopar has what it takes to be a muscle car....I beg to differ..
 
E bodies are crazy high and some are selling but others never will at the Barrett-Jackson prices that some people ask to crap. Check out the completed auctions on eBay and see what they are bringing.
 
That is a very good question ...my take on it is it is a total buyers market money talks and there are great deals to be had. some of those high dollar cars sell but you have to have just the right car for the right buyer.
 
E bodies are crazy high and some are selling but others never will at the Barrett-Jackson prices that some people ask to crap. Check out the completed auctions on eBay and see what they are bringing.

Checking the completed auctions. Doh...

Obviously I haven't had enough coffee today.
 
e bodies are just crazy for the fact there the cars regular people think of when they think muscle cudas,runners,camaros,mustangs Ive herd up to 20K for a good shell of a ebody is a good deal some people r crazy hoping there retirement is sitting there gaining money like the rust they gain.
 
e bodies are just crazy for the fact there the cars regular people think of when they think muscle cudas,runners,camaros,mustangs Ive herd up to 20K for a good shell of a ebody is a good deal some people r crazy hoping there retirement is sitting there gaining money like the rust they gain.

Being iconic isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I'd think charger's were more iconic than challengers, and seems challengers are definitely higher. Though, to be fair, they didn't make e-bodies for nearly as long.
 
I saw a 70 440 Challenger sell for $10,000.00 with the front end wrote off from an accident! E bodies are nice but way too expensive for most of us.
 
It doesn't matter what you are trying to sell.
The bottom line is it's only worth what you can get when you try to sell it.
You can ask whatever you want, but you can only get what someone is willing to pay.

Case in point. Three years ago I bought a 65 impala for a friend at an auction.
I bought it for the glove box trim.
Paid $850.00 for it. Two door v8 auto.

We cleaned it and as a joke parked it in front of the shop with a sale sign and a price of$3,500.00. The car sold in two days, go figure.
I would have been happy just to have had broken even.
 
It doesn't matter what you are trying to sell.
The bottom line is it's only worth what you can get when you try to sell it.
You can ask whatever you want, but you can only get what someone is willing to pay.

Case in point. Three years ago I bought a 65 impala for a friend at an auction.
I bought it for the glove box trim.
Paid $850.00 for it. Two door v8 auto.

We cleaned it and as a joke parked it in front of the shop with a sale sign and a price of$3,500.00. The car sold in two days, go figure.
I would have been happy just to have had broken even.


Which is why I asked. I wanted to know if it was just a bunch of people following each other's lead, listing things for prices they'd never sell at, or if it was actual supply and demand at work. That's awesome about the impala though haha
 
Which is why I asked. I wanted to know if it was just a bunch of people following each other's lead, listing things for prices they'd never sell at, or if it was actual supply and demand at work. That's awesome about the impala though haha

Best part was the dumb *** put an expired tag on it that had a boat load of tickets against it. Parked it on his sidewalk in front of his house.

It was then promptly towed by or famous parking authority.
 
The E bodies are absolutely ridiculous, but if people are willing to pay it then the price will remain sky high. A neighbor of mine just sold a '73 340 Cuda. Unrestored, '70 340 engine in it, ran and drove, needed full restoration including quarters, trunk, and rockers. I think he got in the neighborhood of $9K for it. I like the E-bodies as much as the next guy but I can have a nice driver A-body for the price of a rebuildable E-body.
 
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