Holy Crap!! A $3million car!!!

biscuitboy87 said:
did somebody say that hemi 'cuda went for 300,000 ish? restored?
a restored car shouldnt be worth that much...its restored, restoration is easy...
Click to expand...


Documented by Galen Govier as the second '70 Hemi Cuda built on the first day of production. "Press Preview Car". This is #2 of 320 1970 Hemi Cudas in the Chrysler Registry. One of 652 total 1970 Hemi Cudas produced. (284 4-speeds and 368 automatics)

That's probably why....
 
This one ought to be interesting....

2005BJCCA2_1254_1_Spc.jpg


later today it seems...
 
Okie Terry said:
I thoght you didn't have speed, Gil.
Click to expand...

I don't....

but I do have DSL.... :D

looking at results, pulling up the info, looking at what's coming up....

Not quite the same but it gets the job done.


Lot 1257
2005BJCCA2_1257_34.jpg
 
Well not really when you need to find original parts ...

Many e-body Hemi cars were either raced or drivelines were stripped over the years. A good restoration includes full disassembly on a rotisserie ... sheetmetal repair, fabrication and grafting....and detailed reassembly which can cost a tad over $50K or more depending on the condition of the car. Then you include dipping the unibody, primer and original single-stage paint and markings made by the factory and you can have close to $75K in the paint and body alone.

Then another $25-30K for a rebuilt correct numbers Hemi driveline if you can find it... e-body Hemi's have a different Dana 60 than the b-body.

And that's not including the price paid for an original Hemi Cuda husk----I believe they're all accounted for by now. So you can see it can all add up very quickly ...

biscuitboy87 said:
did somebody say that hemi 'cuda went for 300,000 ish? restored? a restored car shouldnt be worth that much...its restored, restoration is easy...
Click to expand...
 
GTX
optioned out roadrunner...gotta bow to your taste gil...very nice.
anybody like the plymouth FURY?? led sled with style...
question should be...does anybody here NOT like muscle cars?
american muscle.....reminds me of that t-shirt "theres no replacement for displacement"
 
Don't get me wrong....
Different tools for different tasks...
I'd park a Superbee next to an F40 in my dream garage any day...
 
bchulett said:
Well not really when you need to find original parts ...

Many e-body Hemi cars were either raced or drivelines were stripped over the years. A good restoration includes full disassembly on a rotisserie ... sheetmetal repair, fabrication and grafting....and detailed reassembly which can cost a tad over $50K or more depending on the condition of the car. Then you include dipping the unibody, primer and original single-stage paint and markings made by the factory and you can have close to $75K in the paint and body alone.

Then another $25-30K for a rebuilt correct numbers Hemi driveline if you can find it... e-body Hemi's have a different Dana 60 than the b-body.

And that's not including the price paid for an original Hemi Cuda husk----I believe they're all accounted for by now. So you can see it can all add up very quickly ...
Click to expand...
i see your point, and had that in the back of my mind...but then again i would save much of the cost by doing most of the work myself... too rich for my blood. i was in montana looking around for some cars to bring back to oregon (jeeps mainly) and found a 440 roadrunner. it was pretty trashed, but still had the horn "beep beep" so i took that. i was going to take the "air grabber" (is that what they were called?) hood and the tach, but i only had the ten bucks for the horn...i never went back to that yard...bet you the cars are still there...i'm hoping that when i get more space i'll be able to go back and get the jeep bodies i wanted...
so yeah, i can see why a resto car would bring that much...but then a totally original car would be worth much more right? because its all "perfect"...no welding, no bondo, no refabbed parts? just straight out of 1970 plastic wrapped and stored? as cars get more rare and as the companies sell us less car and more gizmo i would wager that the relics become even more valueable... maybe i should go get that 20,000 mile 2001 XJ down the street and store it? lol.
 
I bow to the hauler...haven't seen a "homieized" ride there during my watching for 4 years, but they don't show all the rides on Speed. Interesting thing about restos, someone bought a ride yesterday, don't remember what lot number it was, but they said that there was 6000 hours of resto time into it. Figure at $140 per hour at a resto shop, not including parts, the guy who bought it for $120K got a steal. When you see the Superbirds go off the block at over $200K, keep in mind that when they were being produced, no one wanted them. The dealers that ordered them could barely sell them because the public in general didn't like them. There were only two colors that didn't get put on the 'Birds, Panther Pink and Plum Crazy Purple. If you only knew....
 
One thing about that place...They keep all the cars under tents outside before and after the auction....Its better than any car show I have ever been too. I said this on another thread but I was in the tent where they collect the money and do the wire transfers....I watched a guy from Moroco do I wire transfer for 11 million dollars for the cars he bought...Didn't see what he bought but I about asked him if he would adopt me.
Urban Redneck said:
I bow to the hauler...haven't seen a "homieized" ride there during my watching for 4 years, but they don't show all the rides on Speed. Interesting thing about restos, someone bought a ride yesterday, don't remember what lot number it was, but they said that there was 6000 hours of resto time into it. Figure at $140 per hour at a resto shop, not including parts, the guy who bought it for $120K got a steal. When you see the Superbirds go off the block at over $200K, keep in mind that when they were being produced, no one wanted them. The dealers that ordered them could barely sell them because the public in general didn't like them. There were only two colors that didn't get put on the 'Birds, Panther Pink and Plum Crazy Purple. If you only knew....
Click to expand...
 
As long as it's unique, has a history and been through very few hands will an unrestored original bring top dollar. There's been a few found sitting chained in garages over the years .. the owners wouldn't part with them. In one case the car was worth more than the entire house and property, and the owner would sell.

Another example:
There's a Superbird considered brand new (dealer car under 6K miles) still sitting at a family-owned dealership somewhere back east ... the car has been stored in the attic all these years. They've been offered $1 million ... but grandpa doesn't want to sell.

The reason the Hemi Cuda convertible sold for 2 million was because it was the ONLY 1971 Hemi Cuda vert built with a 4-speed ... and it was an unrestored original----and the buyer was rich and obsessed with Hemi Cuda's.

biscuitboy87 said:
so yeah, i can see why a resto car would bring that much...but then a totally original car would be worth much more right? because its all "perfect"...no welding, no bondo, no refabbed parts? just straight out of 1970 plastic wrapped and stored?
Click to expand...
 
bchulett said:
As long as it's unique, has a history and been through very few hands will an unrestored original bring top dollar. There's been a few found sitting chained in garages over the years .. the owners wouldn't part with them. In one case the car was worth more than the entire house and property, and the owner would sell.

Another example:
There's a Superbird considered brand new (dealer car under 6K miles) still sitting at a family-owned dealership somewhere back east ... the car has been stored in the attic all these years. They've been offered $1 million ... but grandpa doesn't want to sell.

The reason the Hemi Cuda convertible sold for 2 million was because it was the ONLY 1971 Hemi Cuda vert built with a 4-speed ... and it was an unrestored original----and the buyer was rich and obsessed with Hemi Cuda's.
Click to expand...
i gotcha...that makes perfect sense to me... i was just under the impression that the car wasn't original...
my 55 bug still has the original paint interior engine etc... but is worth nowhere near what a cuda is because so many were made...and it has only 36 HP...yeah i massages the engine a little to get the whopping 36 horses...lol i'm thinking it might be worth more if i put in the 2275cc and chop it into a convertable... if i was rich and obsessed i would go for a porsche 917... what would you go for? and i'm asking for the obsession car, cause i know there are many cars for each purpose...??
 
This thread is useless without a couple of million in disposable cash....

:D

I gotta play more lotto...

or a drastic career change
 
You know why it sold for $3mil?

Because Oldsmobile is dead. Bastards....Oldsmobile rocked (up until '88).
 
DrMoab said:
Just sold for 108,000
Click to expand...

I love the GTX. What I wouldn't give for a GTX convertible...mmmmm, yummy.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

1
Parking/Dash lights come on when key is in ignition...
Replies
1
Views
115
1986PIONEER
1
A
Fixing my mistake
Replies
2
Views
164
asymptonic
A
R
No Start Issue
Replies
10
Views
142
rtd16
R
1
Pair of level it ORI struts
Replies
0
Views
109
1-tonxj
1
M
Looking for aftermarket keyless entry ('95 XJ Country)
Replies
4
Views
189
Unclewolverine
U
Back
Top