OK, now I'm confused! I mentioned that I wasn't too interested in having a Dart Charger in the other Dart Charger thread and had a few of the guys here ask if I would sell the parts I have, and I was thinking about it but the offers were not what I expected. so now I'm thinking maybe I need to figure this out better.
Here's my thinking.
1. a Dart Charger sold for almost $30,000.00 kinda unrealistic huh? it was one of the 180 factory cars. there is or was one for sale on Craig's list for $20,000.00 so still pretty steep! they made 300 "kits" to be used on 1965 Dart GT's. the stuff I had came off one of the 180 but now I guess would be usable for making one of the 300 dealer ad-on kit cars.
2 how much is one of the 300 worth? I have all but the car and 3 wheels to make one of these cars (and the car is the easy part). just to make it simple, lets say one of the 300 is worth half, say $10,000.00
3. I can buy a clean 1965 Dart GT 273 4bbl for under $5,000.00 probably around $3,000.00 and put my stuff on it and voilà, Dart Charger!
4. now for the math. my parts plus lets say $3500.00 for a decent Dart GT, (actually there is a really nice looking '65 v-8 4spd GT Convertible on ebay right now for $6,500.00 which would make the end value higher for the initial investment. so $6,500.00 plus my stuff... for an end value of???) I can buy new Cragar wheels for around $650.00 for a set, some time invested etc. I have several 273 4bbl engines and a few 4 speeds no problems there. so even if we estimate a total cost of $5,000.00 for the car and adding whatever I need to. if I could then figure on getting $10,000.00 for the car, doesn't that make the parts I have worth more than a couple hundred dollars?
5.Ok, lets reverse engineer this a bit. $10,000.00 value minus $5,000.00 for the car and everything else leaves $5,000.00. I'm not figuring on getting $5,000.00 for these parts but what about half? $2,500.00 what about half of that even? $1,250.00? if you have a car that needs these parts you may find one or two pieces on ebay or a swap, but I have all the parts needed to make any '65 Dart GT into one of the 300 dealer cars.
Ok, am I thinking of this wrong? if one of these cars isn't worth any more than a regular GT who cares about getting the right parts anyway? if these parts are only worth a couple hundred dollars I'll go ahead with my plan of making a Barracuda into an A body fast back Charger. I have 2 1966 Barracudas and a complete Dart front clip. I have the chrome air cleaner, the engine with the cute little glue on fins, the 4spd and correct shifter, everything. it's just about assembling it, or I'll start looking for a '65 GT of my own to start with.
please let me know what you think, I'd really like to know.8)