What would I do? Drive it. Run mid 14s with the bias plys. I wasn't around during that time, I want to experience it. At least for a while.
Are people still paying $300K for Non Matching Number Hemi Cuda's?
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You can build something that drives just as crappy for a lot less than $300K. I experienced it (I daily drove a 'Cuda for 5 cumulative years - 3 different 'Cuda's). Trust me, it gets old, fast. Back in the 1980's cars weren't as good as they are today (or the 2000's or the 1990's), but 80's cars were a huge improvement over the '70's E-bodies.
Yes, people think you are cool. Until they they hear how much you paid and then they just think you are nuts... and that's only because they have never driven ones themselves. If they had even driven one, they would just think you were an idiot.
People that restore mopars to this level don't drive them. For very good reason. It sucks.
Um . . . How many guesses do I get? 
If I had more money than sense, probably. Since I don't, I have no use for cars so enormously expensive you cannot drive them.
I after all [now] have two that I cannot get done enough to drive them. But I would if I could and intend to pretend to?
Or something like that?
I am working on it . . .
If I had more money than sense, probably. Since I don't, I have no use for cars so enormously expensive you cannot drive them.
I after all [now] have two that I cannot get done enough to drive them. But I would if I could and intend to pretend to?
Or something like that?
I am working on it . . .
Crazy the Prices of some of those cars now, i guess i shoulda kept my '70 Cuda, tho not a Hemi car it was a 440+6, with a 4 speed and a Dana rear, shaker hood...yada yada yada, other than the traction bars and air shocks...and paint (it was black when i got it) , it was a 100% original. even the exhaust. It maybe not worth 300k, but still worth come coin today, o well, I sold it in 1978 for $2,200. bucks, which was a lot of money to me considering i traded a dirt bike for it. Muscle cars were a dime a dozen back then. whooda thunk muscle car prices were gonna go sky high..
i wont tell ya about the few i junked ..not parted out , junked .. and got crushed...like a '69 Camaro, a '71 LeMans and a '70 Olds 442
This was my daily driver i had in high school and thats a younger me behind it..sigh
i wont tell ya about the few i junked ..not parted out , junked .. and got crushed...like a '69 Camaro, a '71 LeMans and a '70 Olds 442
This was my daily driver i had in high school and thats a younger me behind it..sigh
I love it when people post these kinds of stories/pictures. I lived in that timeframe as well, and it seems like many forget that this is what was really happening with these cars. Along came the 90s and the crazy speculation, and people forgot that they were once just used cars
Off topic for this forum, but this is a guy that was a couple years older than me, who had a good job and could afford all the shiny stuff....
And the bid goes on...at $230K
Must have had a $275K+ reserve on it and probably has over $200K in car+ the restoration.
We knew a guy that was having a car "professionally restored" and knew the guy restoring it. We calculated easily over $10k of the $110K restoration cost was time charged for the restoration guy to wipe down and put away his tools (which he did after completing each individual task).
Must have had a $275K+ reserve on it and probably has over $200K in car+ the restoration.
We knew a guy that was having a car "professionally restored" and knew the guy restoring it. We calculated easily over $10k of the $110K restoration cost was time charged for the restoration guy to wipe down and put away his tools (which he did after completing each individual task).
People were spending bat sh*t crazy money on stuff yesterday, I couldn't believe they weren't Saturday pricing. Everything seemed to be 150k plus, I will say there was some really nice stuff there though. Top pick was probably the road runner with the Viper v10 in it, followed closely by the Cuda murdered out with the hellcat stuffed in. I was OK with the Tempest and the 6.0 but thought they could have done a little more to that one.
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