Wall Street Car Article - Barracuda Price!

[texasz]

Some of you mentioned about the price of the Barracuda from the Wall Street Journal article as I recall. Well here's a real life example of how high these get...and it's still climbing!! :eek: :surprised

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4505947525&category=6409

[xray]

Yeah..and it's not even at the reserve price yet!

[Alfadog]

That's just stupid. I'll take 10 absolutely immaculate 240Z's thanks

[seerex]

simple really, its a matter of production numbers for certain color and engine as well as package combos, get the same year 318 cuda in the brown gold and you will be lucky to see 15-20 k , find a cuda convertable with the plum crazy color and a big block especially a hemi and its top dollar , not including the AAR ones or 360 units or 6 pack cars, kinda the same deal as COPO's and rare California special mustangs or shelby units , I don't disagree with the choice of 10 240's in prestine condition but you also have to expect the price to rise for both as rust and donor cars rsult in less of both , rare cuda and challengers and 240z's , wish I still had some of the old mopars as well as the other old Z's I had in the past but that thought goes in the pile next to investing in microsoft or intel when they first got to the stock market

[hls30.com]

How many people would be interested enough in one to:

1) know the legitimate difference between a completely factory version and a replica made completely with with factory parts.(can decode a vin in their head)

2) shun a well done non-factory restoration(to factory specs-but not for the car that was restored).

3) forget the fact that a factory car is an assembledge of factory parts, just like a car that is assembled with factory parts that were not specific to its vin-the parts didn't know the difference-nor did the workers before the pieces were put together.

4) think that two cars that are identical except for a vin number would be less than identical in performance, style, or available enjoyment.

5) think that a vin number matching the trim level of a car somehow gives a car magic that a car that looks identical would not have.

6) think that for more than 200k Somebody couldn't build a realy fine replica, and restamp a serial number and still have less than 40K in the car.

Questions for us:

1)How many pictures of vin numbers are in your gallery relative to pictures of really nice Zs??

2)How many cars hows have you gone to where you have recorded and researched a vin number?

3)Upon finding a beautiful Z parked at the curb, do you even look for a VIN?

4)Why do we even consider anything else when hunting down a car?

5)Would you rather drive a '72 dressed as a beautiful '70 to the MSA show or push #27?

I am not saying I would not pay more for a matching and low serial # car. I am just pondering how much more.

Will

[Gav240z]

I think the price of that car is absurd to be honest. Like anything though it's what the market thinks. Honestly unless I'm a multi millionaire i'll stick with replica's built to similar to better specs.

For example I'd rather own a copy of a KPGC10 than the real thing with my budget because i would enjoy it more. However if i had unlimited money that would be a different story real deal hands down.

Personally I still don't know what the big deal over a CUDA is anyone wanna enlighten me???

[hls30.com]

Just rich folk entertaining themselves!

A piece for a glass managerie of another sort.

Will

[gramercyjam]

I had a '70 'Cuda with a 440 cu in. engine, pistol grip rock crusher 4 speed, posi rear end. IIRC, I paid $400 for it. Couldn't touch it now though.

It was truly the ultimate knuckle dragging testosterone generation machine. Back then, they were pure domination for a street car doing stop light drag racing. With a couple "thrush" glass packs for an exhaust, it couldn't be ignored and turned all heads rumbling down the street. The Hemi's were rare. I guess you had to have been there and experienced it to appreciate their place in automotive history.

[Bambikiller240]

How many people would be interested enough in one to:

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Questions for us:

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Why do people buy/value a baseball that some steriod packed guy whacked into the stands for his "# xxxxx" home run? Can anyone identify it from any other basball? Does it look different, feel different, etc????? Does it matter?

Only to those erecting a shrine (or a museum).

BTW, I worked at a Plymouth dealership while in High School and got to drive many of the new cars (briefly) of the 1967 to 1971 era and the 440 Cuda's were incredible power monsters. The AAR's and 340 - 6 Pack's were big fun to drive also.

[Fun_in_my_z]

Evan if i could afford it no car is worth that. Sept maby the Zs.

[hls30.com]

Carl, you got my point exactly!

Will

[daddz]

Just wait for the big money to show up at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale at the end of January 2005. Last year a couple of bidders became "hooked" when bidding on a 1938 Lincoln Zephyr that had been restored to period correct with period "hot rod" items and the ending price was almost $430,000.00! Then there was the Corvette enthusiast that bought all of Reeves Calloway's Corvette prototypes for a bit over 1 million dollars. This is just another phenomona that comes around with every generation. Right now we have baby-boomers who have done well during their "working years" and now have the cash to buy a car that they coveted in their youth. How many Model T's do you see being bid up to 200k these days? Which is more rare? The value is in the eye of the collector. Who remembers the late '80's when Jaguar XKE's were getting obscene with prices over 100k for early flat floor roadsters?

This may be scary to think about but, someday an early Z might command those prices since the factory is not making anymore the supply is finite. Unless there comes a time when the car is thought so much of that someone is willing to build a replica in the same vein as Superformance Cobra's our Z cars should be treated as well as possible.

I would like to see a well done replica E type which could be used as a daily driver since the originals are fussy and expensive to own and operate so the replica comment is not offensive to me either. This might be a short lived bubble for muscle cars but who knows?