The sellability of our early “A” body cars

Kern Dog said

I don't understand this gibberish. ^^^

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Early A body styling often seems to be a love it or hate it thing, at least from what I have seen.
The 60-62 Valiants and Lancers were really weird. The 63-66 cars look better but in my opinion, the A body line really took off in 1967.
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So true!
The early As have continued to gain more interest and thus higher $. I still say, it is hard to buy any project you do al the work and get your $ back out in parts/materials. Not impossible but hard. Cost of everything keeps going up and decent projects get more scarce.

After 40 odd years in the hobby I have always said that a "desirable'" Mopar model should be worth at least the sum of parts if sold. Back in the 80s, 90s I could do a nut/bolt resto on a 68-70 B body (yes including the second gen Charger) and it would sell for about what I had in it. Yea I had a couple body guys that did perfect work and the cost was actually "realistic" back then. BUT I could pick up a GOOD project of such lineage and sell it as a project and actually make a profit.

I have had a bunch of early As and got interested in them probably 20 years ago because I had tired of seeing overpriced B body car projects, as in too many $$ for all the rust and dents! (today the 68-70 B body prices are totally stupid. I always loved the early B body cars and to me the early As had the style but in a smaller package. As for the early B cars their prices have remained pretty steady over time. Sure they cost more today, but nothing more than normal rise IMO.

Bottom line is that basically it cost NO more to build a 65 slant Dart, than it does to build a 69 383 Roadrunner, except for the initial cost of the project. Cost of body/paint, interior, drivetrain, tires, wheels, glass, all of it is generally about the same. OK so machine work on the slant is a few $$ less!!!! That is why we call it a HOBBY!!!