Are there ballpark values somewhere?

[72Satellite440]

Cool write up jess ^^
Better luck next time Noz34me-you will know when the deal is right

 

[Bruzilla]

I've been in the market for a 73/74 Roadrunner for a couple of years now, and the prices are all over the board. I think the important thing to remember is to distinguish between asking price and the price the cars are actually selling for. There's a guy down here with a super nice 73, but he's asking $25,000 for it and he's had it for sale for over seven months. You would think by now he would have figured out that when similar cars are selling in the $6,000 to $7,000 range, $25,000 is a tad high.

I just bought a complete 74 with a good body, nice 360 and 727, for $2,000. It needs some work done to the interior, and a small dent fixed, and a repaint, but for $2,000 I couldn't pass it up. Two weeks ago I went to a house to see a 73 for $3,500, and saw nothing but a pile of parts that might have once been a car, and I've seen a pretty nice clone with some minor rust issues going for the same price.

I wouldn't pay more than $2,500 for a project car, $4,000 for a driver, and $8,000 for a restored car. Anything more than that and you'll never get your money out of them.

 

[noz34me]

I've been in the market for a 73/74 Roadrunner for a couple of years now, and the prices are all over the board. I think the important thing to remember is to distinguish between asking price and the price the cars are actually selling for. There's a guy down here with a super nice 73, but he's asking $25,000 for it and he's had it for sale for over seven months. You would think by now he would have figured out that when similar cars are selling in the $6,000 to $7,000 range, $25,000 is a tad high.

I just bought a complete 74 with a good body, nice 360 and 727, for $2,000. It needs some work done to the interior, and a small dent fixed, and a repaint, but for $2,000 I couldn't pass it up. Two weeks ago I went to a house to see a 73 for $3,500, and saw nothing but a pile of parts that might have once been a car, and I've seen a pretty nice clone with some minor rust issues going for the same price.

I wouldn't pay more than $2,500 for a project car, $4,000 for a driver, and $8,000 for a restored car. Anything more than that and you'll never get your money out of them.

Good feedback. As far as running the gamut on price, you're right. There's a blue '74 on ebay now, bidding is around $8K, but the guy wants $19K minimum. I asked a question on ebay, left my phone number, and got a call today from a guy in Chicago with what he says is a 95 point '74 with 440. But the 440 isn't original, and he wants like $23K.

I hope this isn't one of those cases where everybody that has one thinks they're sitting on a fortune.

 

[Bruzilla]

I think that's exactly what it is noz. I don't know how old you are, but I remember back in the late 1980s when the post-Black Monday rush on muscle cars really began, and investors started snapping up every big block car they could get their hands on, but paid no attention to the small block cars. I went to Carlisle and saw a 70 Hemi Cuda convertible for sale at the entrance for the unheard price of $25,000, and a nicer 340 Cuda next to it that was $1,800 because no one wanted small blocks. Move forward a decade, all the big blocks are gone, and now interest in small block cars is driving prices up to where they are now.

I've talked to close to three dozen 73-74 Roadrunner/Satellite owners over the past couple of years, and all but two thought they are sitting on "the next big thing" and wanted top dollar without even knowing what top dollar is. The worst of these owners were the guys who had owned these cars for decades and were placing a sentimental value well above even the inflated "investment" price.

Most of these guys are thinking the situation from the 1980s is going to re-occur, where now that all the pre-1973 cars are in the market the post-73 cars will become the hot investment, but they just don't realize the muscle car market isn't what it used to be any more and prices are coming down across the board. Car prices took off after Black Monday in 1987 because people were looking for safe investments after the stock market tanked, but there's no way that way of thinking was going to keep going, yet alone escalate, but they sure think it will.