My search was painful and lasted over four years. I focused on a driver quality car, B Body 68-69 years only, and my budget was less than 22K. Criteria was solid body, floorboards, trunk, and framerails. In other words, a car that only needed a wrench and parts to make roadworthy was the criteria. I would even accept poor, or bad paint.
I traveled to three states, spent hundreds of hours on the phone, had friends, MOPAR club members, and even FBBO volunteers check out cars in other states.
I'll spare you the stories (although MANY very interesting stories to tell), but I came to the realization that only cars in the 25 to 30 range met what I was looking for, which was also advice I received over and over again from FBBO members. My wife even said to raise the bar and stop looking at clones, tributes, cars without titles, re-bodied, etc, etc.
My point here is the prices are all over the map for projects and tributes, and the high 20 to low 30s seem to be the most 'honest' cars. I'm sure there is exceptions to this rule, but I walked away from many numbers matching basket case project cars that were 14K, and took the FBBO advice to stay away from the Redneck Engineered clones that were 17 to 22K. Ending up spending 26K and still hurting budget wise as I'm car poor and have to save a few months just to get a disc brake conversion, but I have a very solid fairly original car that seems to be exactly what I have been searching for and gets approval from all of my MOPAR experts that come by to check it over.
Good luck in your search, and take the advice from the FBBO forum members!
I traveled to three states, spent hundreds of hours on the phone, had friends, MOPAR club members, and even FBBO volunteers check out cars in other states.
I'll spare you the stories (although MANY very interesting stories to tell), but I came to the realization that only cars in the 25 to 30 range met what I was looking for, which was also advice I received over and over again from FBBO members. My wife even said to raise the bar and stop looking at clones, tributes, cars without titles, re-bodied, etc, etc.
My point here is the prices are all over the map for projects and tributes, and the high 20 to low 30s seem to be the most 'honest' cars. I'm sure there is exceptions to this rule, but I walked away from many numbers matching basket case project cars that were 14K, and took the FBBO advice to stay away from the Redneck Engineered clones that were 17 to 22K. Ending up spending 26K and still hurting budget wise as I'm car poor and have to save a few months just to get a disc brake conversion, but I have a very solid fairly original car that seems to be exactly what I have been searching for and gets approval from all of my MOPAR experts that come by to check it over.
Good luck in your search, and take the advice from the FBBO forum members!
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