1984 Henmings Ad

[James Reid]

Need to throw this book away. Depressing

 

[yella71]

$10.000 ...Thats what hemi cars were going for then. a friend bought a 71 hemi cuda in 83. paid $10.000 for it. Who knew

 

[maxwedgechar]

I paid $3,000 for MAX in 1985. It's what the motor, trans and diff were worth to the racers.

 

[JackR]

The 80’s had this stuff relatively cheap still. I bought a few then that got a lot bigger money in 89.....had to sell as got transferred out of Los Angeles to Buffalo NY.

 

[gtx6970]

I actually went and looked at that car then. Same seller also had a bronze 1969 charger hemi car.

A buddy of mine and myself tried to make a deal and buy both. But for some reason...couldnt get it done.
He sold it pretty quick to a Indianapolis basketball player. . Last i heard car was in a NY collection

 

[Sahara]

Around ‘82 or ‘83 I was talking on the phone to a guy in Toronto about my ‘71 Super Bee. I had paid $350 for it in 1976. It was still a pretty new car.
Anyway, we got to talking cars and he gets a Toronto paper out and reads me an ad for a 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda for sale in Toronto. Ad said it had some rust. Price was either $4500 or $5500, I can’t remember.

 

[493 Mike]

I worked in a Dodge dealership in 74/5? Any way they took in a 70 Hemi Challenger R/T SE 4 speed, triple black. I could have had it for 2500.00 but, I had ordered a new 3/4 PU. Who knew?
Mike

 

[Sahara]

What gets me is that it’s not the money. So many wish they had bought a Hemi car because they are worth a lot now. I just wish I had bought a Hemi car then because I can’t afford one now. Would so many find them as desirable if they had no value? I would.

 

[maxwedgechar]

I didn't want a MAX because it might be worth a lot of money, I just wanted a MAX! In 1966 I found a 1964 Hot Rod Yearbook. I had known a little about Mopar performance because the family wagon was a '59 Sport Suburban with a Golden Commando 361. And yes, my parents let a 17 year old loose on the public highways with 305 HP! The Yearbook told me about Maxs and Hemis and all sorts of other things. In the early Seventies I missed the Tritak & Morgan War Wagon. They wanted $3,000 for it and I just couldn't do it. I wasn't going to let another one get away.

 

[yella71]

Its all relative, back in the 80s I was a kid making 5 bucks an hour. It took me a long time to save a thousand dollars. I also remember going with another friend to look at an engine in a body shop, we were told it was a hemi. they wanted a thousand bucks for it. sure enough when we got there in a back room covered with dirt and dust with one head off was a 426 hemi laying on the floor. Needless to say I did not have the money to buy it.

 

[68BabyBlue]

In 1984, $10,000 was triple what I had to spend on a car, or I would have bought the hemi road runner I've posted on the search thread here. Instead, I bought Baby Blue, my '68 GTX, for $1800. I was afraid back then that we might never see anything like them again. I bought my GTX, not for future value, but as a hedge against it. Have never regretted that decision.

 

[gtx6970]

Ive had dozens of old Mopars over the years. hemi car, gtx verts, one ea Daytona and Superbird. and out of them all I miss my old 1969 Hemi roadrunner and one of the 69 GTX verts. ( the one to the right in this picture) I looked for over a year to get the GTX vert back and couldnt find it . I know where the roadrunner is but the car is not for sale

SO ,,,I buckled down the past couple years and bought my 1966 Satellite from a very good friend of mine. For well under market value I might ad.
Its future value I really dont care. My 2 daughters can argue its fate once Im breathing dirt
I had a budget in mind and wanted a done 1967 GTX hardtop. preferably 440 auto and factory air. But when this Satellite became an option. I did everything in my power to make it happen. And I have ZERO regrets , even though it doubled the original budget and I had to wait almost 2 years from my original plan

 

[Photon440]

https://vancouver.craigslist.org/rds/cto/d/surrey-rare-426-hemi-belvedere-ii/7215942839.html
Well, don't let it get away again. That $88,000 is Canadian dollars, so you could have a bargain.

 

[James Reid]

I worked in a Dodge dealership in 74/5? Any way they took in a 70 Hemi Challenger R/T SE 4 speed, triple black. I could have had it for 2500.00 but, I had ordered a new 3/4 PU. Who knew?
Mike

Ouch. That one stings a might. Sorry