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Muscle car prices from the 80's and early 90's

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I'd like to start a new thread about Muscle car pricing from the 80's and early 90's
The prices should be "backed-up", not fictitious.
If possible list: "Date" "Source" and of course "Price"

Here are the first 3:

1. 1970 Plum Crazy Dodge Challenger R/T HEMI $30,000 sold at (BJ) Barrett-Jackson
(Source: MUSCLECAR Classics June 1991, page 53)

2. 1970 White Superbird, 440-six BBL car, 99% original, very low mileage $41,750 B.J
(Source MUSCLECAR Classics June 1991, page 53)

3. 1969 GTO Judge, 1 of 37 built, 400CI Ram Air IV, NO SALE, bidding stopped at $12,000
Barrett-Jackson, June 1991 MUSCLECAR Classics (Now Muscle Car review) June 91
 
I wonder how far this will go?
 
Here is another "RARE CAR"


Same magazine, June 1991 MUSCLECAR CLASSICS:
1967 Mercury Comet, Red, 1967, 427 CI "W" code 4-speed, one of 11 produced
Sold for $32,500

That is a factory 1/4 mile drag car Ladies & Gentlemen
 
Not quite the 80's, but from July 1979.
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Great post!
Very cool "idrivemopar"
Hmm, I was in Cheyenne WY 1981, F.E. Warren for a little bit.....

Wow, a 71 340CI Cuda' for $1,287
(Think they would have take $1250?") LOL
 
I don't understand why people care what cars used to cost. I've had around 300 mopars, and think they were always overpriced. Nobody gave a **** about collecting in the 80's.....and $600.00 roadrunners in the mid-70's were hard to sell.
 
...because we all have our "virtual" collections-

Cars we could have bought but did not for whatever reason.

Here's a few of mine, but none are documented...

1987- 1970 Cuda 383 4 speed shaker inviolet original paint $1000
1987- 1969 Roadrunner vert Bahama yellow buckets $1200

Both running and driving.
Neither had significant rust witch is rare for a 15 year old Ohio car.

Bought neither because I was getting ready to drive from OH to FL and didn't trust an unfamiliar car.

I absolutely cared about "collecting" and future value...to me anyway.

Note that I had only had my driver's license for three years in 87!
 
2/1/81 Pittsburgh Press
1971 Dodge Demon, New Inspection, $395
1973 Dodge Charger, New Inspection, New Tires, a/c, ps, AM/FM, $550
1973 Plymouth Satellite, Fair condition, $300

6/1/85 Pittsburgh Press
1969 Roadrunner, solid, driveable, $1,500
 
Holy Cow Bru!
That has to be the "best example" yet.

At these "early stages" the cars were not as "In demand" as they are now!
Good one!
 
I thought I would go through The Pittsburgh Press archives on specific dates every three or four years and pull up representative prices so you can see trends.
 
I bought my 1969 Sport Satellite Convertible 383 in 1980 for something around $1800 and sold it in 1981 for $1500.
 
Paid $900 for my 69 hemi coronet 4sp. super track pac. etc. in 1980. (without engine). It's a 49k mile car with disc brakes, electric windows, am/fm 8 track, rear defrost, 6way drivers seat.
At the time it seemed to be a steal cause all I needed to do was add an engine and paint it.
 
At 17 I was already reading Musclecar Review and Hemmings while the other kids in class were reading Hot Rod and camaroCraft.

My dream car at that time was a 69 four speed Super Bee.

In 88 I bought my rusty but solid uni-body 70 Bee in barely running condition for $1500.

Then I watched the prices skyrocket.
 
In 1984 I was 16 years old, I bought a 66 GTO for $1,700, had it painted for 1,100 and put some mags on it. Had a real nice looking GTO for a $3,200.....I had the nicest looking car in high school. I sold is around 1988 for $4,400. Then a friend told me about a guy with a 70 Challenger in his garage, so I went to look at that and found a 383 4-speed orange Challenger with black vinyl top. I think I bought that one for around $3,200. It didn't run the best, thus I didn't like it because these cars were my daily drivers Summer and Winter and I needed something reliable. So I sold the Challenger about 3 months later for somewhere around $3,800. Then I found a 68 GTO, red, much more reliable and bought that for somewhere around $4,000. Drove that for a couple of years, then needed money to get through my last year of college, so I sold it in 1991 for $5,000.

I then went the next 20 years with no muscle cars until I found my current 1970 Charger 440, 4-speed in 2011. Back in the game again. I just need to now find a GTO again to keep my Charger company.
 
In the late eighties, I tried to buy a '65 Coronet that was in a field on blocks with no drive train and missing hood for $300.00. It had been sitting for quite a while. Owner apparently thought it was worth 20k, or so he told me red-faced after receiving my offer. Lol..
 
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