Mopars in the WILD

[Woody500]

Al, you have proven there's plenty of cars still out there for anyone that wants one bad enough to do at least some work.
They might not end up with a show winner, but they'll have a car they want, to enjoy and help preserve.
I looked @ marketplace(Central Florida) a couple weeks ago & was surprised at so many great cars available at seemingly low prices. Not just Mopar. Saw a couple tri-fives reasonable. Some prices did seem so low that I wondered if they were a tease price, to get you to look closer.
Anybody experienced that?

 

[RAT ROD AL]

I guess I'm just too old school & and a big cheap skate. Most I see, I feel are way over priced for the mostly rotted out stripped out unusable carcass. Have to pay up if you want something decent to start with.

 

[nutz]

Always better off buying a finished car
Or a driver never getting your money back
Its to get what you expect or want
Or your way

 

[Woody500]

That 55 Dodge(??) was rough and looked lowered & wheel base wrong( f wheel too far back) & must be on later chassis.
But that's exactly the kind of projects somone might like, and especially if later drivetrain there, and is what a lot of people want, after seeing shows on Motor Trend doing that sort of thing. Some of these shows are bad(chad) but show basic mechs what can be accomplished.
Many don't realize it's always the details of finishing a project that's the hardest part, even of the rat rod sort, and never finish it. That's where the real deals can be found, if you can live with some previous errors, and some you are going to make yourself. Obviously all are not capable of full restorations, but their dreams, with lowered expectations, can still happen.
And cars saved.

 

[Dartnut]

I would think they made a lot of them
And a lot of base ones
I all ways liked 55 57 Chevys
Seems they are starting to come off there $$$$ prices ....I guess the following is dying off

I always wanted a '55 or '57 Chevy.
If the prices are going down, I may get one yet before I'm 80!

I love the thread BTW!

 

[Dartnut]

That 55 Dodge(??) was rough and looked lowered & wheel base wrong( f wheel too far back) & must be on later chassis.
But that's exactly the kind of projects somone might like, and especially if later drivetrain there, and is what a lot of people want, after seeing shows on Motor Trend doing that sort of thing. Some of these shows are bad(chad) but show basic mechs what can be accomplished.
Many don't realize it's always the details of finishing a project that's the hardest part, even of the rat rod sort, and never finish it. That's where the real deals can be found, if you can live with some previous errors, and some you are going to make yourself. Obviously all are not capable of full restorations, but their dreams, with lowered expectations, can still happen.
And cars saved.

Agreed 100%!

 

[RAT ROD AL]

 

[RAT ROD AL]

I would think they made a lot of them
And a lot of base ones
I all ways liked 55 57 Chevys
Seems they are starting to come off there $$$$ prices ....I guess the following is dying off

Here's 1 for ya ! Up in Warrenton Mo.

 

[RAT ROD AL]

 

[nutz]

Like the wagon....
Did i say I like wagons

 

[RAT ROD AL]

 

[nutz]

More wagons....yes

 

[hemi71x]

69 Daytona already in the wild late 1970's when i could have got it.

 

[nutz]

Sad
At least you have pics to remind your self to kick your self in the ***

 

[hemi71x]

Sad
At least you have pics to remind your self to kick your self in the ***

But at that time i had my 71 Hemi GTX, 4 speed car, and my 71 Cuda.
But i surely did think about getting that Daytona, back then.
Knowing now, what i didn't know then?

 

[nutz]

71 gtx is one of my favorite
Thought there was only some crazy low #s like under 10 hemi rr that year

 

[Woody500]

Nice!
Also, there was a Cars we should've bought thread a few months ago, I forget exact name & don't know how to search for it.

 

[nutz]

Yes for me it was a b5 71 440 six pack 4 spd
And a 69 383 dart vert

 

[hemi71x]

71 gtx is one of my favorite
Thought there was only some crazy low #s like under 10 hemi rr that year

30 1971 Hemi GTX's. 11, 4 Speed cars, 19 Automatics. I had one of the 11 four speed cars for 32 years.
55 1971 Hemi Roadrunner's.

 

[nutz]

Nice......one of my dream cars
What color

 

[hemi71x]

Nice......one of my dream cars
What color

This was mine.
As far as i know, it's in a dentist's collection of cars back in Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia, PA.
It's changed owners twice, since i sold it back in 2010.

 

[nutz]

Omg that's one of my favorite colors too

 

[RAT ROD AL]

2 fer

 

[RAT ROD AL]

Whats the better deal ?
$39k

$27k

2fer 68 chargers!

 

[ProjectBazza]

This was mine.
As far as i know, it's in a dentist's collection of cars back in Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia, PA.
It's changed owners twice, since i sold it back in 2010.

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I like it too....on Mopars.

Some guy tried to sell a '69 Mustang with that color last week on BaT, and it just looked awful! If memory serves it hit $21k or so, which didn't make the Reserve, but if it would have painted an OEM FoMoCo color I think that car could have gone for $30k easily.