Did anyone notice how expensive 67 to 71 Mopar mucscle cars have gotten?

[matchek]

How long have you had your Mopar? Remember decades ago that you could get a 67 to 71 Dodge or Plymouth for $5K? Back in the day my brother and friends all had em. All blue collar guys. Now it seems like a rich person's game. I just did a search for a 70 Dodge Charger and they range from $60k to $190k? What happened? I know the pandemic inflated them but it seems out of hand now or is it just my observations?

 

[440 PHIXX]

I tell people I have two V codes. A ‘70 Charger and ‘70 ‘Cuda, both factory D21 4 speed. They either think I have a load of money or I’m bull shitting. Neither. I bought them in the early 80’s, and never sold them.

 

[matchek]

I tell people I have two V codes. A ‘70 Charger and ‘70 ‘Cuda, both factory D21 4 speed. They either think I have a load of money or I’m bull shitting. Neither. I bought them in the early 80’s, and never sold them.

lol so true. Smart man. I remember in the 80's a really really nice one was $5k. Buying and keeping these would have wound up better than the stock market.

 

[DeltaV]

I bought my 383 Magnum, 4 speed 1970 Charger 500 in 1985.

 

[Kern Dog]

This car:

Started out looking like this in 2000:

I paid $1700 and drove it home, then 126 miles round trip 5 days a week for work while I rebuilt the engine in my work truck.

This car:

Started out looking like this in 2019 when I paid $5000 for it.

Now, with about another $5000 into it, it runs, drives, stops steers and impresses NO women. Dudes like it though.

 

[matchek]

This car:

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Started out looking like this in 2000:

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I paid $1700 and drove it home, then 126 miles round trip 5 days a week for work while I rebuilt the engine in my work truck.

This car:
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Started out looking like this in 2019 when I paid $5000 for it.

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Now, with about another $5000 into it, it runs, drives, stops steers and impresses NO women. Dudes like it though.

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Nice on both accounts! The first one looks like a show car now. Wow - $1700 - great deal!

The second one looks like a nice engine and project!

 

[gtx6970]

I remember all too well what old Mopars sold for back in the day. I also remember when gas was under a dollar. So, it's all relative.

Bought my first classic car ( a 1969 Roadrunner 383 auto ) the summer of 1977 for $150 , and drove it home.


Bought my 1st hemi car about 1982 or so, paid $8000 for it I think.

Bought my current 1966 hemi Satellite and paid a lot more than either of the above the fall of 2020. BUT,,,, I have turned down considerably more than i paid for it. On multiple occasions

 

[matchek]

I remember all too well what old Mopars sold for back in the day. I also remember when gas was under a dollar. So, it's all relative.

Bought my first classic car ( a 1969 Roadrunner 383 auto ) the summer of 1977 for $150 , and drove it home.


Bought my 1st hemi car about 1982 or so, paid $8000 for it I think.

Bought my current 1966 hemi Satellite and paid a lot more than either of the above the fall of 2020. BUT,,,, I have turned down considerably more than i paid for it. On multiple occasions

I remember when my dad bought my first car, a 71 Pontiac Convertible for $100 in '86. It was a good deal because it was from a friend and it was dirty from sitting from being stored outside under a tree. Back then 87 gas was $.67 a gallon. Today 87 gas is 5 time as much. No way I can get that Pontiac for $500 today though. I hear what you are saying but these classics seem to have gone more than other stuff, but maybe it is just inflation with the times. Just seems like these classic are out of reach for the regular Joe unless you have pretty good body and mechanic skills.

 

[XS22J8R]

I paid $2300 for my Challenger T/A in late 1978, rust here and there and a freshly rebuilt engine. That’s about $10,000 in today’s money. It was a just over 8 years old at the time.
I paid just under $16,000 for my very nice 383 Challenger convertible in 1997, which is maybe $32,000 in today’s money.
These days anything I want is super expensively priced, and anything I want to sell no one wants to buy. I’ll never understand why it works like that!

 

[Budnicks]

Yeah 68-70 have been really high priced since 2000-ish
took off into crazy territory in like 2005-ish,
going into the stratosphere realms now

it's not 1977 or 1997 anymore

Now the fringes around them years prior & after
(like 67 & 71, other years too)
are starting to become more valuable,
the prices of the 68-70s, are dragging them up in value,
as they (68-70) are becoming really expensive
we're getting in the brand X collector car prices/territory now

 

[ESOXER]

71 isn't a stopping point, trucks have been insane aswell. My 73 was bought to flip for a 71-72 or 66-67 Plymouth. Never happened after I bought my house. I'm stuck, for now. I'm in my 40s, and a lot of people my age can't even change oil. Right now it's people trying to cash out on their dad's car, It'll get better...maybe.

 

[Budnicks]

71 isn't a stopping point, trucks have been insane aswell. My 73 was bought to flip for a 71-72 or 66-67 Plymouth. Never happened after I bought my house. I'm stuck, for now. I'm in my 40s, and a lot of people my age can't even change oil. Right now it's people trying to cash out on their dad's car, It'll get better...maybe.

60's-later 80's trucks (some select CUVs/SUVs too) have gone nuts,
especially 4x4's done to a high standard

 

[eldubb440]

drove my GTX home in '85 for 900 bucks........ tuned her up and went hunting

 

[ESOXER]

60's-later 80's trucks (some select CUVs/SUVs too) have gone nuts,
especially 4x4's done to a high standard

I feel like I missed the boat on some 440 D-250s, I actually would like to find a 2wd 440 farm truck and make it a street truck. There was one I tried to get last year in IOWA, guy went AWOL.

 

[eldubb440]

I passed on a V code auto challenger for 2500 because the trans was out and I couldn't hear it run....... I like my GTX better anyway, If I was an E body guy, I'd have a cuda; never really dug the challengers

 

[Don Frelier]

I had a chance to buy a 70 challenger 340 about 20 years ago for maybe $8000.
I unfortunately I just didn't have the funds.
Oh well I got this one for less.
Very incomplete but it's been a fun project.

 

[Richard Cranium]

60's-later 80's trucks (some select CUVs/SUVs too) have gone nuts,
especially 4x4's done to a high standard

This has got to be your shortest post ever …… are you feeling ok?

 

[Budnicks]

This has got to be your shortest post ever …… are you feeling ok?

probably not

 

[hemi71x]

Times have changed quite a bit in pricing for our Mopar muscle cars.
In 1976 or 77 when i purchased my 71 Hemi GTX 4 speed car, (1 of 11) i paid $2,950.00 dollars for it.
How many hundreds of thousands of dollars that car is now worth, whoever owns it, i don't know.

 

[eldubb440]

I had a chance to buy a 70 challenger 340 about 20 years ago for maybe $8000.
I unfortunately I just didn't have the funds.
Oh well I got this one for less.
Very incomplete but it's been a fun project.

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you made the proper decision