The sellability of our early “A” body cars
I put my 66 Barracuda up for sale a couple of years ago just by running adds on Craigslist and my local marketplace area. I received a big audience of people who wanted to come out and look at it and ask all the questions and I felt like all they wanted to do was take it for a ride and then I never heard back from them. Last year I decided to list it with a classic car place here in Michigan, they did all the advertising, scheduled all the appointments and they would only allow lot driving. When I took it there the first question they asked me was what I needed to get out of it that would make me happy, then they set the asking price which was considerably higher than I had set and told me they can always come down. It took a few months but a buyer who was very interested appeared and he made me an offer, the offer was not to my liking so I counter offered and he accepted it. The classic car place took 10% of the total sale, they did all the paper work and they even shipped it out to the new owner. When everything was said and done I went there they cut me a check and it was only $300 less than what I told them I needed to get out of it. I was happy, the new owner was happy, and the classic car shop was happy. I miss it tremendously but now I have the time and the money to finish up the 68 Barracuda that I am working on now. My car was not a trailer queen, I drove it everywhere and people loved it even those who did not know what a Barracuda was.
I put my 66 Barracuda up for sale a couple of years ago just by running adds on Craigslist and my local marketplace area. I received a big audience of people who wanted to come out and look at it and ask all the questions and I felt like all they wanted to do was take it for a ride and then I never heard back from them. Last year I decided to list it with a classic car place here in Michigan, they did all the advertising, scheduled all the appointments and they would only allow lot driving. When I took it there the first question they asked me was what I needed to get out of it that would make me happy, then they set the asking price which was considerably higher than I had set and told me they can always come down. It took a few months but a buyer who was very interested appeared and he made me an offer, the offer was not to my liking so I counter offered and he accepted it. The classic car place took 10% of the total sale, they did all the paper work and they even shipped it out to the new owner. When everything was said and done I went there they cut me a check and it was only $300 less than what I told them I needed to get out of it. I was happy, the new owner was happy, and the classic car shop was happy. I miss it tremendously but now I have the time and the money to finish up the 68 Barracuda that I am working on now. My car was not a trailer queen, I drove it everywhere and people loved it even those who did not know what a Barracuda was.
