Practically Speaking, What is This Car Really Worth?
If you create an account on Mecum, you can look at past sales at auction. Early a’s are pretty uncommon, but it might give you some real data points on actual sales. You can also look at completed sales on eBay. There are a lot of cars for sale for premium prices, but that doesn’t mean they sell for that.
Probably not a good assumption that you won’t spend some money on it if you buy it. Tires dry rot on sitting cars as an example. You can spend $5k in a heartbeat on a car that age.