there is WAY more interest in early A cars now than ever. why???? 1. availability of the car. 2. in this day and age, its size fits. the B body now days in huge!!!!! 3. tastes of people change. decades ago I would not have looked twice at owning a 318 car, much less a slant. now I love driving the slants! LOL 4. its considered an " entry level" car to our hobby. BUT many of us never have a desire to "move" up!!!!
decades ago there was very little in way of resto parts available for mopars period. like he said, the more popular cars get resto parts first, and think of this, the guy with the 70 cuda is faster to spend a buck than say the guy with the 65 dart or valiant!?????
the resto parts for mopar historically have been produced by the " cottage " industry. a guy and his with repoping a part or two. after decades these people retire or die off, thus reducing the offering????
it is sad how so many boneyards have crushed. the price of scrap, EPA, people retiring..... sad but that's life. a fairly local years crushed 2 years ago, the guy got 3 million, thousands of cars. retired and went into the c attle business. my car buddy says " HOW could he do that!???".
I have another buddy that has been into 65 darts for decades. he has a 273 car totally restored, and a vert stripped and painted .... and garage, house, and vans full of parts . wants to sell everything for $30,000. Ha , snowball chance in hades! i say he couldn't find anyone to buy it all for retail value of the 2 cars much less give squat for the parts I would guess.
