Part out or sell a nice car???

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People sell nice looking, good runners like that....

A rough project, yes you might get more by parting, how much work and how long to ever sell it off, and the hazzel.
 
How abut this one - parts or project?

1973 Dodge Dart

Depends IF a person will be happy with that model body, that is the key.. Plenty people would love a Az not too rusted project. Can a person part it for a profit an give $500-600 ?? Some parts of the world yes, others not so much.
Me, I rather fix some rust and have straight sheetmetal, than NO rust and banged up sheetmetal. Just me. I can't tell what this car is by the pics just like all pics of all cars.
Buying projects that are NOT complete works much better when the buyer has a stash of parts or buddies with cheap parts.
Vinyl top car? How bad is the roof Around here I bet 99 would require a complete another roof! Fine if its a 68-70Charger RT you got for $1000 but......
If I wanted to do and liked that model, and the frame is not bent, that is cheap to me. Hard to find any worthwhile project these days for less than $1000-1500.
 
For me, it's not just about maximizing the amount I get for a car. It's about preserving the car for future owners. We're all really just custodians of this stuff. I remember pestering you about selling your car a year or two ago. I'm still looking!
 
That would do a great injustice to the Mopar world. The car would cease to exist. One less Mopar. Think about that.
Well, the above comment says it all....
I know you are not selling and wouldn’t ever (hopefully) part a car as good as that but what we are talking about goes against everything I believe in and completely against what I just did.
I usually always try to buy something I can (again hopefully) buy right so I don’t loose money when and if I do sell it.
I saved a car that I think 90% of the people out there would have parted out without giving it a second thought.
I saw past the amount of work and money it needed and saved it from being parted out and or scrapped.
The car will never be worth the money I have in it and I’m ok with that. It hurts to loose money especially when it happens quickly but that’s a chance we all take with this hobby every time we buy a collector car... and think about that, that’s in most states 20-25 years old... 1994’s!
I’m about to feel that sting, I’m not even finished tuning the car I just built and I have to let it go.
It’s worth way more parting it out completely but it is a cool complete old Mopar, no matter the year make or model.
There are only so many of these cars left let alone complete decant candidates. We need to preserve them as they are or absolutely take a loss and let that car (whatever it may be) live on.
Make the non “rare” and desirable attractive to someone else or let someone else have a chance at a dream car affordably.
Part the ones that can’t be saved, save the rest.
Personally, a 4 speed 2nd gen Barracuda is a dream car of mine and I know I’m not the only one.
 
Half stripped 69 318 bucket seat floor shift notchback. Nothing special to the numbers guys, however, my son and i are saving her. Do what you wish, but this one is coming back from the dead.

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Most of us understand the fulfillment we gat in fixing things, something in our genes that make us want t. Saving an old car from the scraper is fixing things as order #1 !! Then making it usefl as to its original purpose, is #2. Fixing the ugly is #3.???
Most projects would part out for more than $ than worth as a need everything project, but then the car is gone forever, and how many months years does it take and the work t part it! I say part those that makes sense to part and fix the rest!
 
Plus with AMD and others popping out A body structural parts and skins, cars that were previously thought of as parts cars are now savable.
 
Half stripped 69 318 bucket seat floor shift notchback. Nothing special to the numbers guys, however, my son and i are saving her. Do what you wish, but this one is coming back from the dead.

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That’s what I’m talking about!
You are saving a worthwhile car that others possibly would have parted out.
I think I parted out 11 or 12 1968-1970 Chargers back in the eighties, looking back on it now I’m saving cars far worse and far less valuable and much less desirable. Back then it wasn’t a thought because the aftermarket wasn’t what it is today. We were building a few Chargers and needed parts and were able to find these cars back then for $20-$250 for entire cars. It was Illinois and most were rusty but by all means and today’s standards savable now.

I’m sure when it comes down to it you could very well have the same amount of labor and money wrapped up in this little notchback as the OP but that second picture shows you probably won’t ever sell it but if you did I’m sure parting it out won’t be an option nor should it.

This is the Brown 1974 Dart Sport 318 column shift auto I saved. Spent a buttload of time and money on, far more than it’s worth and now life has thrown a curve ball and it has to go so I can keep the ones I’ve owned since the 80’s. (that I parted so many to make whole.)
It was a fun build and it’s a super nice, super cool car that will allow someone to get into a very good Mopar Muscle Car at an affordable price. As so many you see listed, this is one of those “My loss is your gain” kind of situations.

I believe this is exactly what this posting is all about -
I’m sure I could make more money cutting the car into rust free pieces but I could never bring myself to do it. Especially after all of the long hours to make it what I had envisioned.
Let others have a go at a good car at a good price and keep em’ on the road!!!
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If you look at it as a waste of money you shouldn’t have done taken it on in the first place. Preserve and enjoy the ride!
 
i guess it depends if you live in a free country or in commiefornia
 
That’s what I’m talking about!
You are saving a worthwhile car that others possibly would have parted out.
I think I parted out 11 or 12 1968-1970 Chargers back in the eighties, looking back on it now I’m saving cars far worse and far less valuable and much less desirable. Back then it wasn’t a thought because the aftermarket wasn’t what it is today. We were building a few Chargers and needed parts and were able to find these cars back then for $20-$250 for entire cars. It was Illinois and most were rusty but by all means and today’s standards savable now.

I’m sure when it comes down to it you could very well have the same amount of labor and money wrapped up in this little notchback as the OP but that second picture shows you probably won’t ever sell it but if you did I’m sure parting it out won’t be an option nor should it.

This is the Brown 1974 Dart Sport 318 column shift auto I saved. Spent a buttload of time and money on, far more than it’s worth and now life has thrown a curve ball and it has to go so I can keep the ones I’ve owned since the 80’s. (that I parted so many to make whole.)
It was a fun build and it’s a super nice, super cool car that will allow someone to get into a very good Mopar Muscle Car at an affordable price. As so many you see listed, this is one of those “My loss is your gain” kind of situations.

I believe this is exactly what this posting is all about -
I’m sure I could make more money cutting the car into rust free pieces but I could never bring myself to do it. Especially after all of the long hours to make it what I had envisioned.
Let others have a go at a good car at a good price and keep em’ on the road!!!
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If you look at it as a waste of money you shouldn’t have done taken it on in the first place. Preserve and enjoy the ride!
Is that a homemade unsilenced air cleaner ? Was thinking same modification
 
i guess it depends if you live in a free country or in commiefornia
I’m assuming you are meaning because it’s harder in Cali to get an old unregistered car back on the road?
If so, that’s why they should be sold to Easties that need a good starting point.
And I’m really not talking about mostly parted out piles that were used up and left for dead 30 years ago, we are talking about the complete, possibly restored non desirables.
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This was the 73 fold down seat B5 Dart Sport that came with my 74. I considered it a parts car because of how much it was actually missing plus no title.
But being as solid as the car is...
A local guy has it now and is building it on a Roadster Shop Chassis with a new style Hemi and big *** turbos.
I couldn’t be happier but I had it listed as a parts car, I didn’t part it but figured sure someone would cut it up for how little rust there was.
 
Very cool..I like it cant wait to do one
 
That’s what I’m talking about!
You are saving a worthwhile car that others possibly would have parted out.
I think I parted out 11 or 12 1968-1970 Chargers back in the eighties, looking back on it now I’m saving cars far worse and far less valuable and much less desirable. Back then it wasn’t a thought because the aftermarket wasn’t what it is today. We were building a few Chargers and needed parts and were able to find these cars back then for $20-$250 for entire cars. It was Illinois and most were rusty but by all means and today’s standards savable now.

I’m sure when it comes down to it you could very well have the same amount of labor and money wrapped up in this little notchback as the OP but that second picture shows you probably won’t ever sell it but if you did I’m sure parting it out won’t be an option nor should it.

This is the Brown 1974 Dart Sport 318 column shift auto I saved. Spent a buttload of time and money on, far more than it’s worth and now life has thrown a curve ball and it has to go so I can keep the ones I’ve owned since the 80’s. (that I parted so many to make whole.)
It was a fun build and it’s a super nice, super cool car that will allow someone to get into a very good Mopar Muscle Car at an affordable price. As so many you see listed, this is one of those “My loss is your gain” kind of situations.

I believe this is exactly what this posting is all about -
I’m sure I could make more money cutting the car into rust free pieces but I could never bring myself to do it. Especially after all of the long hours to make it what I had envisioned.
Let others have a go at a good car at a good price and keep em’ on the road!!!
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If you look at it as a waste of money you shouldn’t have done taken it on in the first place. Preserve and enjoy the ride!
I told my 6 year old son, if he helps with its restoration and puts in the sweat equity, then its his when he is of driving age. Every day he wants to go work on "his" car. And i am totally cool with that. We spend maybe an hour tops out there per day weather permitting. Today was a junkyard trip to score a set of preemo LBJ UCAs off a 74 Valiant to go with its M body calipers, and Cordoba big rotors and Cordoba calipers.
 
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