I would be a buyer if it were closer to me tx. junkin it would be a bad business move thats my take.c
Don't clean it up before sale there's plenty of history lettered on that car let the new owner decide how much work needs to be done to it,Let them be able to get as much info as they can from it letter placement size etc.It doesn't look like it would take very long to get that car back on track a few pics of it as is sent in to circle track or stock car magazines and sites could get you a bunch of info possibly.A clean primered car looses a lot of it's history
What I see with cars like that is that they're worth the most in the area they were raced in if anyone still remembers them. I know where some of my childhood heroes' cars are sitting. They are the ones I would want to restore. That being said even with no history I'd think it's worth $600 all day, every day. Around here almost every track has at least one nostalgia night a year and the supermodified style coupes are the coolest. BTW Traderjack, IMHO the parts aren't worth anything unless you're building another circle track car. If it's been raced much at all I guarrantee they've been bent, straightened, welded on and/or otherwise cobbled. Nothing you'd use on a street car. I'd plant it in my front yard and put Christmas lights on it before I'd let it be crushed.
I think it's beautiful, and I'm not kidding. If I had any kind of cash flow I would be happy to pay a grand for it. I've seen better looking dirt cars but they all have alot of character. Kennedy brothers had this one for sale at the L A Roadster show. I think they were asking $2,500. You don't buy these things to take parts off, you put them back the way they were and go have some fun.
That would be my guess too. There was an Ed's Body Shop in Bismarck, ND, but he is no longer with us. I'm going to make a copy of the pics and see if I can find out any history.
Here in PA. there going upward of $3500 for dirt cars from the 50's. Vintage racing on east coast is growing each year. Hope you sell it to someone who will preserve it.
Yeah don't crush it like that tard thinks you should. If you can't sell it whole, which I don't think you will have a problem doing, but if you can't, strip the parts off it and I'll give you $100 for the frame and body and they can come live at my farm.
Wow!! tall dollars over there. I'm sure it's not worth anything close to that in reality. I would be happy with $600.00 and it could stay at my place until spring/summer. I won't strip it or crush it, I don't like to see that happen, it's a shame when it does. You being from ND saw what went on this spring/summer with the insane s**** frenzy.....sad
If my Dad had s****ped this back in the day, we would be kicking ourselves now. Took a long time but these old dirt cars are coming around. Money is spent to make memories, do not s**** that car!
OK, you guys disagree, I hope you can sell it and make money! Let us know how wrong I was when you get it sold. traderjack
If money was what these old cars were really all about, I'd be long gone. These are REAL traditional hot rods with scars. Just dirty enough to keep the cheesiest gold chainers out. Down here on the bottom of the old car food chain, real people come out and become good friends. BUT, if you get a chance to look at their net worth, even you would want to know what business they were in. I was surprised.
I hope someone from the area ******es it up and either leaves it as is or restores it to as it was actually raced. This thread has got me thinking about how as a kid there were always used up race cars in our pasture. I remember crawling around on them, pretending to drive, just looking at how they were built. That probably as much as anything made me want to drive. Don't have much left of any of my cars. Roofs with feature win stickers on them, a stray door or two, but not much. Nothing to remember how we did it way back in the 90s. There's a guy that comes in our shop that raced when I was a kid. Did a little winning, nothing spectacular. I knew his last car(73ish Chevelle) was sitting in the weeds at his place. Was at his place for something else and was looking at the car from probably a hundred yards away, half sunk in the ground, when I realized there's a trailer under that car. Asked him about it later and he's like "Yea I unhooked from it when I came home the last night I raced and it's been sitting in that spot since 1982." Now I think when I get an acreage of my own I need to talk him out of it so I can rebury it in my timber.
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