Right now the car has an odometer reading of 100,017 origional miles. I'm trying to find out what the value of this car would be RESTORED not as it sits now. I am going to do a mostly factory restoration on this car. I made out like a bandit on this deal after I talked the previous owner down from 10k to 7.5k. It has the 8 3/4 rear end with the 323 sure grip posi and the body and undercarriage is 100% RUST FREE. Origionally owned and kept in calfornia until 1990 when previous owner out of Dallas bought it. Now I own it down here in San Antonio. He owned a bunch of fords and somehow came across this mopar. He was going to turn it into a weekend dragster, luckily I bought it.
As far as the cars rarity, the options on this car are oddball in there own way. If four speeds were standard equipment and as common as some people are saying, then where are they cause all I've seen for sale are automatics. The only four speeds I've seen for sale had bench seats. I know that 383's were standard equipment, but his car also has the HP 383 not the standard blue two barrel 383. For those of you who don't know the difference, it means basically that the 383 HP motor came with a 440 cam and valvetrain. I plan on putting in a 484 lift purple cam but thats it as far as the motor going aftermarket.
Unfortunately, the previous owner swapped out the origional factory radiator with an aftermarket aluminum radiator. This is a good upgrade but bad for origionality. The other thing I want to do is convert the front drum brakes to disc brakes, primarily as a safety upgrade. I have a paranoya about the reliability of drum brakes and feel safer finding a pair of disc spindles off another
B body or A body such as a Dart or Valiant. The final thing I might 'possibly' do is put on the gull wing and chin spoilers. But other than that this car will be a mostly factory restoration, minus stupid things like having an old cell battery re-cored lol.
PS Found out that A/C is a pretty rare option on 4 speed cars. They're not rare on an automatic car, but on a 4 speed that's a different story. Most people who owned 4 speed cars opted to not have A/C because it weighed down the front.
