j par heres the thing with the A body stuff, and I am sure I am not the only one, I do this for the love of the vehicle, not how much $$$s i can wring out of it when it's done. I dont intend to sell my 67. And the one my son and I are building for him are about making memories. Neither one is particularly valuable. One was a slant sux, one was a 318. Will be nice cars when done. The only A body cars that are worth any real money are the M code 440 car . Or the 383 cars, or to a lesser extent the 340 cars, however theres still a lot of people out there building slant cars and 318 cars and turning them into clones, or customs or whatever.
My sons car was a stripped out ex drag car shell on wheels. I am glad AMD is around to provide what we had to purchase to reverse the damage from aluminum tubs, and the typical floor rust. We ended up buying from AMD a main floor, trunk floor, outer wheel houses, trunk drops, rear valance, dutchman, front valance, front and rear bumpers, and stainless rain gutter trim. Quarter skins and a battery tray from goodmark. A transition pan and inner wheel houses I got used from a scamp. We also got a bunch of other used pieces to replace missing or hacked up stuff we got from fabo members.
By all rights this car should have been junked. But a $300 buy in for it with papers was cheap enough. Then little by little the parts just kinda fell into place at the right time. Barracuda stuff isnt cheap, nor plentiful. A lot of work we are doing on a 318 notchback for sure, but it's fun, and I'm not in it for the money. You never make money restoring a car. If you are wanting to do that, find another line of work. If you do it as a hobbiest, then great, you dont count the dollars or time that goes into it then.
