I hate to even think about this, but times are tough and getting tougher. I've had this car for 17 years and may have to get rid of it. I have no idea what the current market is like for this stuff, so I thought I might be able to get some help. '54 Chev belair 2dr hardtop, 67-69 camaro subframe, 4 inch lowering blocks in the rear, tilt wheel, shaved door handles, trim removed/filled, frenched dual antenna's, '62 Olds Starfire tailights frenched with custom housings, leaded hood, absolutely gorgeous car. I started to "rebuild" the car a few years ago, and it needs finished. I gutted the entire car. Installed a Painless wiring harness. Everythings routed, but I did not cut/terminate any wires yet. Car was taken down to the metal and painted Dodge Flame Red (it's really red), that was about 8 years ago and there are some small bubbles showing up along the rockers. No bigger than a dime. It has heavy duty auto-loc door solenoids (install needs to be finished), and most recently was a heart transplant. I took out the 307 and have replaced it with a zz450 clone and a well-built TH350. Motor/****** install needs to be finished. Seats are old tuck/roll, no carpet although it's mostly covered with dynamat now, have a headliner in the box, have rod doors kit for door panels, it sits on 17" front and 18" rear billett wheels (I know, what was I thinking?) and basically just needs someone to finish her up. I really believe this could be on the road with a week's worth of hard work. The motor runs great, trans shifts good, car just needs the finishing work. Not a show car, but a real cool little 400+ hp driver. So, what's a project like this worth these days? I know it's not a $20k car, but I'm hoping it's not a $5k car either. Anyone care to "opine"? big mac
The more finished it is, the more it's worth. Unfinished, it might cost a guy say $10,000 to get to the same point, but it won't bring that money trying to sell it unless you get real lucky. 90% of the auto buying market is full of people who want to either jump into a done car, or are just plain too lazy to actually build something themselves. And 9 out of the last 10 guys would rather build it from scratch themselves than wonder how good the work already in the car was done. Best bet to figure a value for your car is try to find some similar finished cars and subtract the cost of getting yours finished to the same level.
If you get it running, it will be worth more. If it is more of a project, you will eliminate a lot of potential buyers. The bubbles in the paint would be a turn off for me; my questing would be what else is there under the paint that could go wrong? ........................$6.55
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