Need your opinion...72 duster..worth it?

Here's the link to all the photos of the Duster I was yammering on about.........(very bottom of page)

The guy sent me a bunch more, so I stuck them all on a photos website for ease of viewing....lots of undercarriage, etc........at least he isn't trying to hide anything.

But is it worth $4500 though, not sure.

Found a green matching numbers 318 in Texas for $2k....

http://www.cars-on-line.com/38455.html

Its not as "pretty "as the purple one....would need paint and body work in the quarters and interior work......but it would be mostly original and I would know what I am starting with.

Looks like quite a bit of this purple car I am thinking about is NOT original...stuff like the painted dash...painted black by the current owner when he changed the interior from green to black (per the photos)....replacement door (blue door in photo)...less than perfect job done on painting the engine bay black.....(don't MOPARs usually do the engine bay in body color?).....

I am trying to look past the pretty purple paint and rims........it looks slick in the pictures, I think....easy to fall in love with a purple hotrod looking car...LOL...but pictures can lie.

Frame wise, seems like its actually in good shape.....again, pictures can be decieving....but looking at some of the details, some defects but nothing glaring.......

Thing is, am I expecting too much? A-bodies are starting to get sought after.

I may just wait and bide my time a bit and see.......In this economy this wont be the last one to come along I suppose....I dont want to rush into this.

If it was $3,000-3500 I think it would be closer to a "deal"....or if it was numbers matching V8 original car at least, sure, even if it needed quarters and paint (like it does now, really). If the body was really good, ie paint was great and the body work didnt need doing.....yes...I think I would jump on this..... But being a pieced -together car, plus it needing body work and paint right now, it makes it less attractive.

It was probably originally a 6 cylinder car when the last owner had it.....started it as a project.......then didnt finish it.....the present owner repainted the interior, etc.

I guess seeing it in person would really cement it one way or the other. But not sure I want to take a day off of work and rush up there....5 hours away.

Here is the link to the photos.

http://s349.photobucket.com/albums/q391/shadango_bucket/72 duster/?albumview=slideshow


Dave