Friday, September 19, 2014

For major bucks it better be perfect......

I'm amazed at the musclecars that people are asking insane prices for-and the cars are screwed up. RK motors in North Carolina sells a lot of classic cars. They were advertising a 1970 Hemi Charger for $79,000. It wasn't a "Real" Hemi car-then the price would have been 150K. This was a 318 model that someone put a Mopar Performance Crate Hemi in, and a 4-speed and a Dana 60 rear end. But it had 4-wheel drum brakes!!!  Yeah, I want a 4,000 lb car with 465 hp and brakes that fade after one hard stop!!!  Not!! I mean the builder couldn't spend another 800 bucks putting front disc brakes on it?  Like Ditka says-"Come on,Man!!".  They had a 1968 SS396 Chevelle for sale for $49,995. It had no power steering. Anyone ever try to park a car or truck with a big-block Chevy in it and manual steering? Not a pleasant experience. I don't care if it's numbers-matching and "Came from the factory" that way. For 50 grand, it should have power steering and be decent to drive. And again-adding a power box, pump and hoses would have cost what-a grand? And would the value of the car really be "Compromised" by having power steering???  Trans-Am Specialties was trying to sell a 1973 Firebird Formula 455 that was supposedly a numbers matching car, for $38,000. They showed a picture of the dash and the gas guage clearly said "Unleaded Fuel Only". Except-Catalytic Converters and unleaded gas didn't debut until 1975!!  What-you couldn't spend 100 bucks at Year One or NPD and get a correct guage? You had to get one out of a junkyard from a '75-81 model??!!!  And hope no one notices???  For damn near 40 grand it better be perfect!!  They wanted 40 grand for a 455 / 4-speed '73 T/A-that had a big rip in the driver's seat!!!  For god sakes-you can't spend 100 bucks at an upholstery shop getting it patched, or a couple hundred with Legendary for a replacement cover??!!!  If these cars were "fixer uppers" that they wanted 5 or 10 grand for I'd understand, but if I'm going to lay out 40 or 50 grand for a car it better be right. Would you pay 40 grand for a BMW with ripped seats??  Unbelievable. Mastermind        

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