Real E body prices?

[barbee6043]

I never buy a project that is not worth the $ (to me). Since I have never been made of $, when I found a decent project for say $1500 or less, I simply ran to my local country bank and made the loan, Paid them $100 a month, which I did not miss. I had the car, got it before it went away, I could always get my $ back out of it if I wanted to sell.
I would never ever spend any big amount of $ on a toy , even back when more money slipped thru my fingers!!!just me.

 

[rumblefish360]

Thanks. I scrimped and saved and lived without to set myself up for later. I have always and still own junk cars until recently. I bought my first ever new car, a 2014 Dodge Challenger SXT. And as always, the wife got the best and new cars first.

For now, I’ll play with my ugly *** junk and weather the storm of the holier than thou *** whipes with there mint cars and retared comments of my chit box toys. Boy! There’s no shortage of what I should do and how bad they look!

In my Retirement,, I will dip into the toy car account to restore/modify my Cuda, my way. Yup! I’ll probably spend more than it’s worth, but I don’t care, what ya my money to waste as I see fit...... or not.

 

[sireland67]

I here ya, saved all my life, retirement is set, all houses are paid for.
Just have the youngest son to put thru school.
I prefer to build my cars myself, so I know what they are.
Also just this last year I bought myself my first new vehicle.
Wife always has had a new one every couple of years.

 

[rumblefish360]

Good point barbee because we it is all up to the Individual person and where they stand. A lot of this hobby, it’s really a point of view. What is it worth to you? what is it with the others?
Is it worth doing?

Really, the bottom line is, where did your happiness lie and what you’re willing to do flooring what you’re willing to spend on it. If anybody’s worried about resale value, and what they put into it, I think there in the wrong hobby. If you’re not building for yourself, getting the car for yourself, then I think you’re going about it in the wrong way.

The only exception would be, to be buying and flipping these cars for a profit. Then you must be selective.

 

[rumblefish360]

Wife always has had a new one every couple of years.

This, IMO, makes the most sense because if and when anything goes wrong, I smile and say, “Take it the dealer, that’s what a warranty is for.” “Call a tow truck, your covered for this.”

Now I don’t have to fool around with it and I can concentrate on my crap instead.

Leave me alone! LMAO!!!!

 

[sireland67]

This, IMO, makes the most sense because if and when anything goes wrong, I smile and say, “Take it the dealer, that’s what a warranty is for.” “Call a tow truck, your covered for this.”

Now I don’t have to fool around with it and I can concentrate on my crap instead.

Leave me alone! LMAO!!!!

So true
I would have to work on anything newer.

 

[crackedback]

If the interest rate is right you actually want to take out a loan. There's no way I'm gonna fork over my money when I can play with someone else's. Even the ultra rich don't spend their cash unless they have to. It would be foolish to hand over $50k to save $2k over 5 years. I can certainly make way more than that with $50k liquid.

That's because you have discipline. A lot of the current generation of people have zero when it comes to finances. Example

My sisters former husband used to ***** and complain about social assistance programs and people screwing the system. Meanwhile, he buys all sorts of crap on credit, refi's/2nd mortgage house for cash out and files BK. Keeps almost everything that was bought with the cash out money, second mortgage gets extinguisghed/forgiven. I mentioned that the only difference between the people you complain about and yourself is they screw the system on the front end and you screw it on the back end. Dumb POS couldn't understand that.

That type of stuff happened all the time when real estate ran up last time.

I agree that I could make a bunch more with 50K liquid than a loan repayment over 5 years or so time.

 

[barbee6043]

There was a time back around 87 till 94 or 5 these mopars was my business. I had "my" cars that I did not price to anyone, till I sold out in 95. ( first Mopar price crash was late 91) I restored cars , bought, sold, parted cars, sold mostly projects. I bet I never made a dime on restored cars. All profit was made from projects. These project cars included AAR's TA's ", 440-6 E bodies some E verts, many 383 and 440-4 B bodies,some early B bodies, a few Hemi cars, some M code Bees, tons of others.....
I restored a few and sold some restored cars to people with a "reputation," they flipped them for a profit. I was in rural Missouri, not a good spot for selling. I bet I rarely ever made a profit on a restored car.
Just for discussion, take a 69 393 roadrunner. Mother Mopar made what? 95,000 of them? I could buy a complete project car for $1000-1500 back in the day, when done, the body, paint was perfect, fresh engine/trans, interior, brakes, frontend, tires, exhaust . it all.......This runner today will cost $5000 for a decent project car, but way worse than what I could find back then, NOW I could do the same type resto and I bet I would be lucky to break even back then, and NOW!!!!!!! Yes the runner will sell for way more today, BUT everything that goes into it costs way more.
Money???? $8000 in '93, 25 years ago, probably is like $30,000 today??????