Duster just sold for 68,200!

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Car is only a C code or G code....sure ain't a h code..no rally dash or frame...bet he made $35k profit if he did the work
 
I may be selling my '74 drag race Duster. Any Duster love will help. About 650+ HP fresh 451. But certainly not expecting anywhere near $20k. There's not that much love for a '74.

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I just was able to scroll through those pics. Nice car, but not $60K.

Not that you said it was worth what it sold for....

....but this is a case where the money spend is typically a lot different than what someone will pay.

I still have doubts it a real sale. Other than that, it’s a true outlier from typical sales. There’s a bell curve and this car would be at the thinnest most distant edge.
Really nicely done but I wouldn't consider it a resto mod or a restoration. I'd really love to have it. There's some really nicely documented cars on this sight I'd love to have too. Just my opinion.
 
I noticed at car shows that a lot of the 30s and 40s hot rods had a little sign in the rear quarter window that said: "For sale..." and then an enormous number. I finally asked about it and the guy said they got tired of answering the question, "how much would you sell it for?", so they would put a number in the window that was outrageously high, nobody ever asked again, and if somebody actually offered to buy it they would sell it and build 3 more...
 
Been living under a rock for the last year or two? People losing their jobs and these clowns raise their prices to stupid levels. There are people on this forum who literally sell broken junk carburetors that can not be used for 125$. Delusional. Hopefully it’ll only be left for the elite.

J. Skeptic
Yes, people are selling rusty rot for big money.
 
Yes, people are selling rusty rot for big money.

people are advertising them. Doesn’t mean they sell.

But some do to the ill informed, uneducated, and unexperienced.

and many later will be re-sold in the same or worse condition when the seller becomes overwhelmed.
 
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$254k restoration? There isn't that much to a '71 Duster? Talking about padding a quote? I don't think car restoration is within these guy's skillset?
There’s very little about that car that’s still stock. Got a lot of trick stuff added to it. It was also built by a resto shop so at $90+/hr, it’d add up quick.
 
There's nothing good about any of these cars going up in value. All it does is price us regular folks out of the market and make it a rich man's hobby.
 
I was at the auction and saw the car, nicely done! I can guarantee there was much more in that car than what it sold for...1971 Plymouth Duster Resto Mod | S112 | Kissimmee 2021 | Mecum Auctions

This was my car - I built it back in 2012 - I'm in Wisconsin, this car cost me $40K to build (I did a lot of it myself and got buddy discounts on the body/drivetrain work).

The car was fast and fun to street around, but tiresome to drive for any distance. I guess I'm getting too old and soft.

It was really hard to steer if you pushed it hard in the twisties - (I foolishly put in a flaming river fast-ratio manual box, combined with a small tuff wheel)
I thought about converting it to power steering, maybe a Alterkation K-frame, but in the end decided I had put enough money into a A-body. Also that 408 used a bit of oil, nothing excessive, but still bothered me. The car sounded great though with the magnaflows!

So 6 years later, 2018, I sold it to a private buyer in Delaware for $30,500 (via a Ebay ad - didn't actually sell through Ebay). I was asking $35K just to re-coup most of my cost. I looked at the market and thought that was a fair asking price.

Then a friend of mine spotted it on the internet at a dealership in Ohio.

Turns out the guy in Delaware only kept it for a few months, I dug around on the web and found his ad - he asked $31,000 for it

The dealership in Ohio eventually contacted me. The Delaware guy did not title it in Delaware, so the dealer wanted me to help re-title it for him.
I told him that was his problem!

Eventually they must have fixed the title - I kept watching it on their website - they were asking $49,000 for it

It sat there for a while, then looked like it was sold. Every once and a while I would check the web...

Then it showed up on the "Marshall Goldman Cleveland" dealership website - they were asking $69,000 - I noticed they installed power steering (the car really was a ***** to steer!)

I kept watching it - they listed it on Ebay several times - then looked like it was sold, showed "no longer available" on Ebay

Did some more searching last week and spotted it on the Mecum website

I'm amazed someone would pay over $60K for that car - I would have sold it for $45K and both of us would be very happy :)
 
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This was my car - I built it back in 2012 - I'm in Wisconsin, this car cost me $40K to build (I did a lot of it myself and got buddy discounts on the body/drivetrain work).

The car was fast and fun to street around, but tiresome to drive for any distance. I guess I'm getting too old and soft.

It was really hard to steer if you pushed it hard in the twisties - (I foolishly put in a flaming river fast-ratio manual box, combined with a small tuff wheel)
I thought about converting it to power steering, maybe a Alterkation K-frame, but in the end decided I had put enough money into a A-body. Also that 408 used a bit of oil, nothing excessive, but still bothered me. The car sounded great though with the magnaflows!

So 6 years later, 2018, I sold it to a private buyer in Delaware for $30,500 (via a Ebay ad - didn't actually sell through Ebay). I was asking $35K just to re-coup most of my coast. I looked at the market and thought that was a fair asking price.

Then a friend of mine spotted it on the internet at a dealership in Ohio.

Turns out the guy in Delaware only kept it for a few months, I dug around on the web and found his ad - he asked $31,000 for it

The dealership in Ohio eventually contacted me. The Delaware guy did not title it in Delaware, so the dealer wanted me to help re-title it for him.
I told him that was his problem!

Eventually they must have fixed the title - I kept watching it on their website - they were asking $49,000 for it

It sat there for a while, then looked like it was sold. Every once and a while I would check the web...

Then it showed up on the "Marshall Goldman Cleveland" dealership website - they were asking $69,000 - I noticed they installed power steering (the car really was a ***** to steer!)

I kept watching it - they listed it on Ebay several times - then looked like it was sold, showed "no longer available" on Ebay

Did some more searching last week and spotted it on the Mecum website

I'm amazed someone would pay over $60K for that car - I would have sold it for $45K and both of us would be very happy :)
It’s an incredibly beautiful car! You did a great job on it!
 
^^^^ Glad everyone made a buck. Looks like buying from one of those "places" get expensive and we all have opinions of the auctions!

Me I'm just a country boy, but last year I sold my bud my million dollar goat, he was happy, especially when I just that next week, bought his million $ hog. Now I have this tax problem, IRS says I owe taxes in my million $ profit!?? WTF???? Do I need a tax lawyer, or a do I need to buy another hog to offset the whole deal!????? Dunno
 
Auctions!!! ha High end car auctions! Never been to one. Not saying they are not totally honest either.
Been to many quarter horse auctions. It does not take a genius to have a clue of what all BS that can happen there. Same with collector cars auctions, maybe????? EBay maybe???
Funny story. About 10 years ago or so the horse market was very down, and a very high end breeder was having a dispersal sale (auction). Her stock was extremely in demand. A mega wealthy ranch went there before the sale,and purchased the top 4-5 head, a stud and 4-5 mares for like $700,000. But the agreement was, the seller would run them thru the sale, and bid them up with phantom buyers to big prices which would help the average price of her other sale horses. She had probably 60 head total. The actual buy had an agreement to pay her a balance due for these horses at a later date. Some how the verbal agreement to pay the balance got confused as to the date of such. Law suits follow, and lots of bad gossip followed, all of which was true!
 
Auctions!!! ha High end car auctions! Never been to one. Not saying they are not totally honest either.
Been to many quarter horse auctions. It does not take a genius to have a clue of what all BS that can happen there. Same with collector cars auctions, maybe????? EBay maybe???
Funny story. About 10 years ago or so the horse market was very down, and a very high end breeder was having a dispersal sale (auction). Her stock was extremely in demand. A mega wealthy ranch went there before the sale,and purchased the top 4-5 head, a stud and 4-5 mares for like $700,000. But the agreement was, the seller would run them thru the sale, and bid them up with phantom buyers to big prices which would help the average price of her other sale horses. She had probably 60 head total. The actual buy had an agreement to pay her a balance due for these horses at a later date. Some how the verbal agreement to pay the balance got confused as to the date of such. Law suits follow, and lots of bad gossip followed, all of which was true!

Great example!

Off course these same shenanigans go on with collector car auctions. They are just as fake, shady, and manipulative.

that’s why using auctions sales as a market reference is weak. Every auction sale should have a burden of proof to an actual true customer purchase.
 
Never trust one auction sale. All kinds of funny business goes on there. And it’s in Florida to boot!

It’s a restomod car that could have tons more money dumped in it.

Anyone have more details in it? It looks mild in the picture. But that’s just on outside.
Are you saying they put 68 thou out there but that money never actually was exchanged ?:) I wouldn't doubt it, probably just to "mess with the market" LOL!

i miss the days when only us poor guys ran Mopar because no one else wanted them... could buy whole cars on the cheap...
 
Are you saying they put 68 thou out there but that money never actually was exchanged ?:) I wouldn't doubt it, probably just to "mess with the market" LOL!

i miss the days when only us poor guys ran Mopar because no one else wanted them... could buy whole cars on the cheap...

That’s what sort of what happened with the example barbee4043 gave of the horses. And that was a lot more money than $68K. I think in that case, money was exchanged through the auction. Then was gave back on the back end afterwards.

It would be naive to think it hasn’t happened with auto auctions.... and much more “creative” things
 
Totally see that as establishing a "history of appreciation" in price as an investment vehicle. You got a gull wing MB and you sit on it for 3 years. You send it to mecum and it get alot of attention at min bid of 1.2M. It "sells" at 1.4 but never leaves the owners garage. 2 years later it goes back on the block for 1.6 and everyone sees that the car appreciated 200k in 2 years! Well that's a 'no brainer' as an investment so it really changes hands for 1.6 now. The seller pumped the value of the investment worth with that fake sale of 1.4. Mecum gets a small fee to list it as it brings interest and prestige to the auction, but it never actually moves. A complete restomod on a Duster... Why not just put a Duster body on a Hellcat Red Eye?
 
Thing is 99 percent of people don't know the difference between that car and my daily driver that I rescued from a trailer park for 400 dollars and built 20 years ago.
Or care.
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I sold my '69 base model RoadRunner for $9k 3 years ago. Body was decent. But was too crunchy underneath for me to want to attempt a restoration. But 383 ran fine. 727 trans shifted well. (But under powered for my taste.) Shortly after the market exploded. A year later I could have gotten twice the price. I bought the car with those 18" rims. Someone stole its originals. The 18s actually worked ok with that white exterior. But would have rather had the original rims. Turns out those rims alone were $1k+ The guy is very happy with his purchase.

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Dusters were very popular (#1 seller) in the early 70's and when people go back to get that first car, Dusters will be high on the list. Plus they are the right size, weight, and have fantastic body style. Values are going up.
 
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