Pink 70 340 Duster goes for $62K on Mecum
Lol people always have opinions about collecting. Monet collectors talk trash about Picasso collectors. Ferrari collectors talk this same way about A body collectors. This is all a matter of perspective.
Objectively, at the end of the day an old Mopar which was built by drunks on an assembly line 50 years ago isn't materially the same as a hand built Ferrari.
Who cares what other people spend their money on? I don't give a **** if someone can or can't afford something. I see both sides of this argument being incredibly insecure; the people who can't afford it are being weird about the price because they're broke and the people who can afford it are being weird and desperately trying to justify where their money went.
WHO CARES, GROW UP
And if someone wants to spend $60k on a Volare, what then? All the classic truck guys will be selling their Volare K members! :rofl:
I don't care what people spend their money on. I'm not some rich guy, I just like driving old cars. So I don't really understand the investors, I think a bazillion dollar 1 of whatever with no miles on it is kinda silly, and a waste of an awesome car. I'd love to see someone buy one of those all original low miles cars and then burn the hides off it coming out of the parking lot and drive it half way across the country to get home, resale be damned. So if you see somebody do that, maybe I won the lotto :steering:
I just hate all the guys bitching and complaining about "these cars aren't worth that". Well, actually, it kinda seems like they are. And maybe one auction isn't a trend, but if you look at prices in some of last years auctions you can see that Dusters in particular are on the way up. And hey, maybe those guys that paid 6 figures for a Duster will lose their ***, but so what?
Doesn't matter to me, I'm not under the disillusion that my '74 Duster is worth what those auction cars are worth, and it wouldn't matter if it was because it's not for sale whether it's worth $10k or $100k.
Definitely interesting! The blue '72 that went for $30k is a real 340 car. The pink '70 what went for $62k is a /6 cloned to a 340. The '71 Twister that sold for $42k is a 318 car. Not sure about the '70 with the 360 that didn't sell at $45k, it's a drag race set up with a coil over conversion (not a pro-touring car like I previously said, oops). And then the mega-bucks restorations of real 340 cars that hauled 6 figures or nearly that.
5 years ago they wouldn't have gotten half what they hammered at, definitely lots of money going into classic cars right now.