Old days best car deal..

[marlabuck]

Money Room

I see you live in Long Beach, are you part of the beach barons and or involved with the Rod Run?

Yes we live in Long Beach,Washington...and yes we are members of Rod Run...AKA BB...every year during the big gathering I am stuck inside the bunker counting all the money that comes thru the gates...Marla

 

[Budnicks]

Nice car Marla

 

[YY1]

OK, I gotta tell the full story on that 69 Hemi RR convertible. Since I was there and everything...

About a year after I moved to FL, I started hanging out with a group of guys I met at the Friday night Steak and Shake cruise ins.

After a while there was this rumor of a Road Runner convertible sitting in a shed, not too far from where we were.

One of the guys in the group had been driving a 77 Power Wagon club cab 4x4. He;d only had it a couple of months and paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 for it.
We'd been off-roading several times, and that truck NEVER got stuck. One of the front wheel bearings was starting to go, and it was eating tires...but back to the story...

Early one evening with nothing better to do, I suggested we should try to find that car.
I'm always interested in seeing what's hanging around behind sheds, etc. Been doing it since I could drive, and have driven some pretty good distances just to take a look.

...anyway, it diddn't take long to find it. It was literally less than 5 miles from one of our friends house. There was a group of us in the Power Wagon, all loud and boisterous, as young boys tend to be on the weekend.

we almost skidded to a stop in front of the place, but tried to maintain our composure, cause the last thing you want is to let a potential seller know you are excited (did I mention I was kinda savvy for my age?).

We started looking at it- Yellow with a tan int- normal car under a tree kind of stuff. Moderate B body rust issues, trashed interior, etc. Prety soon a guy came out of the shack. Started telling us his life story, with tidbits about the car. While this was going on, one of our party noticed that even though the car had a 383 in it, and had 383 callouts on the hood...the VIN code was RM27J...J...??? HEMI...shhhh.

So one of us nonchalantly asks what he would take for it (trying to contain the feeling to jump and shout), and the guy says 500 bucks.

OK, reality check...hand full of 20 year olds with barely more than minimum wage jobs.
NO ONE had that $500.

So the guy goes on to say...yep, got my truck in the shop, but can't afford to get it out. (or something to that effect).

...and my bud with the power wagon says..."I'll trade you straight up for my truck", and the guy starts smiling real big like he just hit the lottery.

One of my other friends was also friends with an editor for Mopar Muscle, and made some calls.

My former Power Wagon, and then Hemi car owning friend had scored a 1 of 10 car.

Two weeks later, some one from New Jersey paid him $10,000 for it...and gave my other friend a pretty generous finder's fee.

I'm still waiting for my share, since I'm the one that suggested we should go out and try to find it.....

BTW, with that 10K, the power wagon guy bought a 1 yr old F150 4x4. and got married.
F150 got stuck every time he went out, and he blew up the motor in less than a week.
Marriage consumed the rest of the cash instantly.

 

[theman440]

Dad's, mine and brother's Mopar Purchases

Dad 1976 - 1966 Coronet 440 Convertible, 1 of 134 buillt, highly optioned..125$ (still have it)
Dad 1987 - 1964 Sport Fury, Black, red int, power windows, A/C...65$
Me 1986 - 1964 Dodge 330 2-door, radio delete, poly-auto...300$
Brother 1989 - 1968 Dart GTS, 340-auto, A/C...700$
Me 1989 - 1966 Coronet 440 HT, 361-auto A/C, cleeeeen, drove it home...1300$ (still have it)
Me 1992 - 1970 Chrysler Newport 4-door HT, power windows, steering, brakes, seat, factory FM, cruise, trunk release, tilt/telescopic, turning lites, 3.23 sure grip...100$
Dad 1991 1964 Polara, white w/blk int, A/C cleeeen...75$
Dad 1996 - 1972 Dodge Adventurer SE 360-auto, pwr steering, brakes, A/C, drove it home...1200$

 

[Ron 73]

OK, I gotta tell the full story on that 69 Hemi RR convertible. Since I was there and everything...

About a year after I moved to FL, I started hanging out with a group of guys I met at the Friday night Steak and Shake cruise ins.

After a while there was this rumor of a Road Runner convertible sitting in a shed, not too far from where we were.

One of the guys in the group had been driving a 77 Power Wagon club cab 4x4. He;d only had it a couple of months and paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 for it.
We'd been off-roading several times, and that truck NEVER got stuck. One of the front wheel bearings was starting to go, and it was eating tires...but back to the story...

Early one evening with nothing better to do, I suggested we should try to find that car.
I'm always interested in seeing what's hanging around behind sheds, etc. Been doing it since I could drive, and have driven some pretty good distances just to take a look.

...anyway, it diddn't take long to find it. It was literally less than 5 miles from one of our friends house. There was a group of us in the Power Wagon, all loud and boisterous, as young boys tend to be on the weekend.

we almost skidded to a stop in front of the place, but tried to maintain our composure, cause the last thing you want is to let a potential seller know you are excited (did I mention I was kinda savvy for my age?).

We started looking at it- Yellow with a tan int- normal car under a tree kind of stuff. Moderate B body rust issues, trashed interior, etc. Prety soon a guy came out of the shack. Started telling us his life story, with tidbits about the car. While this was going on, one of our party noticed that even though the car had a 383 in it, and had 383 callouts on the hood...the VIN code was RM27J...J...??? HEMI...shhhh.

So one of us nonchalantly asks what he would take for it (trying to contain the feeling to jump and shout), and the guy says 500 bucks.

OK, reality check...hand full of 20 year olds with barely more than minimum wage jobs.
NO ONE had that $500.

So the guy goes on to say...yep, got my truck in the shop, but can't afford to get it out. (or something to that effect).

...and my bud with the power wagon says..."I'll trade you straight up for my truck", and the guy starts smiling real big like he just hit the lottery.

One of my other friends was also friends with an editor for Mopar Muscle, and made some calls.

My former Power Wagon, and then Hemi car owning friend had scored a 1 of 10 car.

Two weeks later, some one from New Jersey paid him $10,000 for it...and gave my other friend a pretty generous finder's fee.

I'm still waiting for my share, since I'm the one that suggested we should go out and try to find it.....

BTW, with that 10K, the power wagon guy bought a 1 yr old F150 4x4. and got married.
F150 got stuck every time he went out, and he blew up the motor in less than a week.
Marriage consumed the rest of the cash instantly.

That sucks, You didn't get anything and it was your idea, hate it when that stuff happens..

 

[goose69]

Yes we live in Long Beach,Washington...and yes we are members of Rod Run...AKA BB...every year during the big gathering I am stuck inside the bunker counting all the money that comes thru the gates...Marla

Well that's one of my favorite car shows. I've been attending it for the past 22 years. Its definatly changed since the first time I went. Well keep up the good work and talk to ya later, maybe at the Rod Run!

 

[Bruzilla]

I remember hearing a story similar to YY1's back in the early 1990s. There was a guy who was a member of Mid-Atlantic Mopars with us, who had a Dodge convertible, and I'm not a Dodge guy so I can't remember the model but believe it was a Coronet(sorry, but this is going back almost 30 years). Like most guys at shows, he had a large sign next to his car and instead of saying it was 1 of 100 or 1 of 25, his read "The 1970 Dodge Hemi Coronet? Convertible."

Turned out he was looking for car parts in Canada, and found the car in a junkyard that had been totalled out due to fire. He looked under the charred hood and saw the remains of a Hemi, checked the VIN and saw it was an original Hemi car, and got on the phone to a member of NHOA to see how many of the cars were made. The answer he got back was "One. How much you want for it?" He hung up the phone, bought the car, and restored it so he had a genuine 1 of 1 car.

One of the Mopar mags did a story on him later on, and I remember laughing when I read the account of the phone call to NHOA.

 

[goose69]

Well this isn't a deal of yester-year but of yester-day. I have a 1995 Ford ( yea I know) F350 crew cab 7.3 diesel. My motor is getting tired and so I was looking for other options. My buddy works at an ambulance service and they retired a 2002 for ambulance with a 7.3 in it because it got in an accident. Well the motor only has 160k on it and they just bought and installed over $4000 in parts on the motor 4 months ago (injectors, glow plugs, wiring harnesses, turbo upgrade, dual alternator set up, pumps, new computer etc). Well the company let me buy the entire chassis minus the medic box for $100! I have thousands of dollars in parts on this thing. The motor is coming out & into my truck and the rest parting out and scrap. Gotta keep eyes and options open, you never know.

 

[72Fourspeed]

Makes you sick.

In 77, I bought a 70 340 `cuda for $700. Needed a fender. My brother bought a Charger 500 , the flush window,bee grille one, for 900 running. He parked that next to the Talladega Torino he gave a grand for. I was working as an apprentice at the Dodge dealer & missed out on a 68 R/T Charger Hemi car. Could not get dad to co sign for $ 1600 ! Oh for a time machine !