ebay 71 340 Duster in PA 5K with 1 day left and no bids

Killer6 said
LOL!! The missing drivetrain never even crosses My mind looking at that disaster, and I looked at every pic and close-up too. Just doing a proper repair of the cowl is 3 days
worth of work easy, unless You wanna booger it w/a MIG, grind the s#*t flat & call it done. There are /6 Dusters out there clean as a whistle struggling to get anywhere near
that price, clean, unbent and in running condition! WTF? Again, if One wants to pick up the Mantle for the "I just have to save it!" cause, more power to them. But the asking
price is obscene, based on what? A couple of build codes that mean 340 & HEMI Orange? The paint costs the same no matter what code is stamped on the tag, so why else
would someone tackle this train-wreck other than the premise that it's "worth" more because of it?

"Booger it with a MIG"? Do you not know how to MIG weld? Because if you're "boogering it", you're doing it wrong. All the metal work on that car could be done in 40 hours by a professional. Would it take me longer? Heck yes. Would I have to grind down some of my welds? Yup. Doesn't mean that's the way it should be.

I get it, the car is rough. And yeah, I don't care what the VIN says either, I've got a /6 '74 cloned to a '71 340. I bought my clean, straight, rust free /6 '74 for $2k as a complete car that I almost made the drive home with. And I still think this thing is worth more than mine when I bought it.

You have to know that the car is worth more because of the VIN, because of the hemi orange original color, because of the blackout option, etc. Heck it'll cost less to paint it EV2 than a lot of other colors because it's just a solid color. But it's still worth more to somebody because it's an original EV2 car. Those are just the facts. The biggest thing hurting this car isn't the metal work, it's the missing drivetrain. If it had the numbers matching drivetrain someone would have already bought it.

crackedback said
Would you be underwater with restoring this car, Sure.

The V24 puts it in another world as far as Dusters are concerned and value. They are the unicorn of Dusters. It's akin to comparing a Swinger to a 340 Swinger. This is the step from a V24 and non v24 340 Dusters.

The car is a mess, no doubt and I would never pay the amount asked for it due to the missing parts and metal work required.

Totally agree. But on the upside down note, you're pretty much going to be upside down restoring any A-body. You'd lose your wallet just as bad restoring a numbers matching 318 car that was mostly complete and just needing rebuilding and repainting.