It isn't only MOPARS that suffer from this must be worth it's weight in gold...

cannucky said

Ramenth the road apples to street apples was partially directed toward your comment about your crap being worth more , but you are certainly not the only one and frankly I don't remember you trying to sell your crap in a manner that would misrepresent it so in spite of our past it's not really a shot at you directly either , it was more of a comment on how some people misrepresent lesser valued cars

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That's why I was being facetious in my first comment. If this guy gets the $25K he's asking then someone will think that makes what they have more valuable and try to overprice it. We see it all the time on craigslist/kiji. The guys with the slant powered Duster with rotted frame rails and rotted floors, with an engine that's seized up looks at what a Hemi Charger is bringing at the big auction houses and thinks that makes his car worth at least half...

When you take a look at the pricing of a vehicle like this the first question that pop's into my head is "can you build it for that much?" You're right about the rust belt. Finding clean body around here is like pulling teeth. I've seen guys on here from CA or AZ on here scream "parts car" on bodies that have a little surface rust. Around here you'd pay through the nose of a body that clean. Taking that into account, what you pay for the car, plus the price of going through everything, rebuilding the engine, replacing the interior... yeah, you'd have about that much - or more - wrapped up in a build without the headache of hunting parts and putting it together.

As with building a car, though, it's a labor of love. Someone has to love a particular car in order to lay down the cash on it, built or unbuilt.