Record price for ashtray!!!

If 7 people are bidding to get the price that high, then they must be pretty scarce. Have you guys ever tried to find a GTS trunk finish panel for a 68 Dart? If you did you would know that an NOS goes for $1000, a restored one for $700, and good unrestored for $400. For a 1lb piece of stamped aluminum that probably had a value of $2 when new.

What about a set of A-body big block manifolds? $600 used, $1500 NOS.

GTS Dart Hood? Try $900 for one you still have to paint.

What about the front fenders for 1968 Hemi Dart? $???,??? Forget it, you can't count that high!

Its not what the part is, its how hard it is to find? If you spend 2 years looking for a good used ashtray for a $500,000 car, then $615 is a drop in a bucket. And you are wrong! Take that $500,000 car and a dirty, rusy ashtray could de-value a car of that magnatude by $5000 or more! Especially if the part is so hard to find. So in reality, if that ashtray is going into Panther Pink 70 Hemi Cuda Convertible, then it is worth every penny you pay for it. If that same ashtray is going into a Green 318 Baracuda with a 3 speed, then you are an idiot for paying $615.

Its all a mater of perspective. Now, I wish I had a few NOS E-body ashtrays hanging around.