Duster just sold for 68,200!
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 :)
