What Does "Reasonable Offer" mean?
That car is prob 5 grand if it isn't a total rot bucket... 1500 is 1990s money. I paid 1000 in 1993 for my 340 H code swinger towed it home with a bunch of parts in a trailer. He had it at 7500 so you could talk him down to 5 etc. he knows at 1500 you could flip it for 5 that's why he got pissed off. everyone is an American picker these days...but seriously lets be real at 5K if everything is there every piece of stainless trim and the interior is all there that's a big plus when restoring these cars hunting down parts kills a restoration budget.
H code Darts and 64 3 speed on the tree early A body Darts that have been sitting since at least 1999 when he bought it are 2 different animals all together. As mentioned above, I just sold my original commando equipped convertible Valiant Signet for $6800, running and driving, and the guy drove it home. That is the 2025 price for a running and driving, insured and plated with a desireable driveline, 8 3/4” rear end and all. Is this 64 Dart worth $5k compared to the Valiant? Not in the real world.
While it’s true that it would be hard to find all the Dart trim, this Dart still needs at least $3k worth of parts and labor to even get it running, let alone driving to cruise in and such. Then there’s the issue of the interior, which I wish I took pictures of. It would be an embarrassment to drop the top and show that off. When I say red vinyl over the original door panels, I mean a piece cut from a roll, the door sprayed with contact cement and the vinyl stuck right on over the upper door frame and all. And that was done long enough to have the vinyl 1/2 peeling off and showing the amount of contact cement used to try to hold on the vinyl. Not to mention the rear seat, the red painted rear interior trim panels, the “reupholstered” front seat with the same vinyl used on the doors. And that’s not even getting into what the underside of what the floors look like, or the trunk pan, or the frame stubs.
My offer was an informed one, based on a real price that a comparable running car just sold at, I think I’m pretty close. And yes, I would’ve paid more, but not much because I don’t need it, and I couldn’t flip it for anywhere near what his asking price was.