What's the selling price!??

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I got my 79 Cutlass Calais in March 2020. 39,500 original miles, paid $6,800, plus shipping from MN to GA.
Exterior is in good shape, looks great from 20 feet, but needs some minor dent repair and paint touch up on hood (storage dings) and driver front quarter panel. No missing parts, only chrome bad is strip at rear of hood is faded out, which is typical.
Interior is excellent, just a couple of small cig burns from first owner, some sun fade on the interior B pillar covers and armrests, and headliner is drooping. I have ordered the interior paint and headliner material from Dixie Restoration Depot. Car is running well, but is a 260 diesel. I wasn't concerned about the drivetrain, as my intent from the start was to drop in a 6.0 liter LS and 4L80. The fact that I can drive it to the shop for the swap is just a bonus. I had been looking hard for close to a year, and had seen prices trending upward. I was hoping to find a good swap candidate for under $5K, but when I came across this one on Craig's List in the ideal colors (I wanted the carmine interior and either dark carmine, black or gray/silver paint), t-tops, low miles, excellent interior and nothing missing, I bought it for the asking price.
 

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Amazing what even the high mile turbo buicks are selling for.

Too many around to be worth that much, unless there's even more demand. Must be a surplus of people just gotta have one.
 
Amazing what even the high mile turbo buicks are selling for.
Absolutely correct! Blown away, (no pun intended) 😉 I'm watching one eBay listing at the moment, 5 days currently left on the auction, an 87 GN with 74K on the clock for almost 50K with 78 bids! Will post the link for any snoopers interested 🙂

 
1987 Monte Carlo LS bought from original owner in 2016 for $2250. Good running condition. AC had been dealer converted to 134a, tires were fairly new. If I remember right it was not yet at 100,000 miles. 4.3 ran like a top. Front brakes were fair. It had a smell from being in storage for a year or so, letting it sit with the windows opened fixed that. Per the seller the top and tint were done when before they bought it new. It spent most its life in a garage. For a northern car there was vary little rust. This was not advertised, just put on the side of the road with a for sale sign.

I replaced the top with a full vinyl black top a few years later. Been a good car. I have had to do repairs but nothing I can complain about.
 

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I got my wagon in November of 2016 in Cleveland OH for $3000. Asking price was $3500. It was running but barely driveable. California body, no rust. Rebuilt SBC, rebuilt Turbo 400, custom Flowmaster exhaust with X pipe. Wiring was a mess, plastic interior parts were terribly faded, bumper fillers were shot, roof rack was gone and holes siliconed shut, new headliner, speedometer disconnected, AC parts butchered and gone, heater barely worked, AM radio.

Basically, I bought it for the California body and the rebuilt engine and trans, but soon learned that the trans was horribly rebuilt and I had to go through it again. Engine leaked oil like a sieve so I replaced almost every gasket or seal, exhaust was in the way of everything that needed servicing like the trans and trying to drop the starter.

When all was said and done, I still got a California body, but spent about the same amount of cash getting everything right, reliable and looking decent. Here are some befores and an after. No paint or bodywork was done, just a lot of sweat equity and utilizing a ton of spare parts I had laying around.

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