**1971 Demon 340 (hi impact) - GREAT PROJECT**

73cuda said

For what it's worth, it has the #'s matching motor and a fender tag...

Lastly, I'm selling this for a friend who apparently shouldn't have bought this car. He decided in the middle of the deal that he needed $ for an LS5 motor he found for his 1970 Chevelle convertible.

I know it's a bad time to sell a car & this has a lot of rust.
But wouldn't the parts alone fetch more than $2500~...
I have a 1971 GoGreen 340 Demon project & would never recommend parting this -- it's got a fender tag & matching motor & is pretty complete (plus comes with some cool extra parts: spare rear lights, grill, deck lid, fenders!)

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As with anything else, something is only worth what someone is willing to pay. What makes it hard is the cost of transporting a car as well. Depending on where the car is, one can expect to pay over an extra grand to get a car transported to their doorstep. That tends to make people shy away from spending alot for a car when they have to factor in the cost of shipping said car.
By your own admission, the car has alot of rust and needs ALOT of work to make it roadworthy again. Even with fender tags and matching numbers, it's still going to cost alot of $$$ to get the car back into order. If it was a Charger or a Roadrunner or something like that you'd have people beating a path to the car. That's one of the downsides to buying old cars like this. The chances of getting your money back are slim to none and one almost always takes a loss when trying to sell something they originally anitcipated fixing up.
I'm not saying this car isn't WORTH what he wants, all I'm saying is what something is worth and what someone is willing to pay seldom ends up being the same figure. Basically, if I was to buy the car for $2500, I'm looking at an extra $750 to $1000 to get the car home. That immediately ups the initial cost of the car to $3250 - $3500 for this car and I haven't touched it with a wrench yet. See what I'm trying to say?