Bad omen for the value of 69 M-Code Cudas

Mr Gorsky said

I admit I watched those eBay auctions and noted that that car failed to sell at $50k.

Having discussed rebodys with you in the past Jim, it occurred to me that you were pouring a power of money into your car via AMD when it would have been real easy and much cheaper to use your blue shell.

You will clearly be underwater if you need to offload your car for some reason.....but you went into this with your eyes wide open. You didn't want to reshell your car. Your bed is made, now you have to sleep in it.

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right now, i have about $26k in my m code car. i expect the drive train will cost at least $6 which gets me to $32k. i'm doing all the body work and paint myself but "paint" will cost at least $1k. i had set a goal of $35k to have in the car when it was done so i should be close.

all the work AMD did to the car came to a little over $11k which i thought was reasonable given what had to be done and how difficult the repairs were. you are right, it would have been INCREDIBLY easy to have swapped the M-Code VIN into the blue body shell i had because that body was ALL original and was almost rust free. but.... being a lawyer ... i never even considered that approach. i remain convinced that swapping the VINs would have been illegal.

so i did end up with a restored "original" M-Code car but will have close to present market values in the car. again, i do not anticipate ever selling the car as i am building it a little different than all other m cars. but if i do have to sell it someday, who knows, maybe the only "4 speed" m-code cuda will be worth something extra due to its uniqueness.