What happened to the reasonably priced project car?

barbee6043 said

Reasonable priced project cars? Most were bought back in the 80's 90's, some even 10 years ago.
There are 3 routes available.
Projects?
1. Buy an older resto. Is it still solid? Was the work done correctly back then? Do you require a good driver or a show poodle?
2. Buy a car that has never been touched. Get a complete one unless you want to spend $$$$$ for missing parts. Gets expensive. Be realistic as to time, costs, and abilities.
3. Buy a project someone has tired of, given up on. Can be the best deal because NO ONE wants a car someone else took apart! The work they did, is it satisfactory?? Did thy get get bored, or find out they bought a pig in a poke??? Grade 3 bolts and ...........
Remember, put lipstick on a turd, it is still a turd.

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I bought my 65 Barracuda as an abandoned project. $750. No driveline and totally disassembled. Found a local car for parts, owner agreed on a price,then called me back and wanted 1000 more. Because the slant 6 had a manual trans he thought was worth that alone.
So no deal. Its still sitting there, to return to nature. No negotiating with him, he passed away, and wife wont let it go.

i cut a bunch of work off my barracuda and repaired it,finding rust through under filler. and i recovered my 76 dart sport after 30 years of it sitting. Parked beside it was a 75 duster i bought for donor parts to fix the dart. Im project rich, money poor.
thanks to sensible members here on FABO i have been slowly accumulating parts to bring these things back to life.
I have passed parts on to help others, and always try to be fair in support of the hobby.

$6500 for a duster? No way! And its a shell,and rough. And no paperwork.