Price?

electricmayhem · Newbie

Price?

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Hi, and welcome to the site. Do you have any photo's you could post to give us a better idea of what the car needs?
Todd

electricmayhem · Newbie

I don't at the moment as the car is at the shop. The quotes I gave would be what the mechanic and body shop would charge to make it pass Nova Scotia safety inspection which is pretty harsh. (You can't have any fill on the car all the rust has to cut out and welded). I have someone who is interested, but I have no idea what I should even ask.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

The 2008 Old Car Price Guide lists your car as being worth this:

Condition Value

6 $660

5 $1980

4 $3300

3 $7430

2 $11550

1 $16500

Add 20% if your car has a V8

Condition 6 is a parts car. Condition 1 is Excellent 95+ show car that is not driven.

I'd guesstimate your car is either a #5 which is defined as "Restorable, Needs complete restoration on body, chassis and interior. May or may not be running, but isn't weathered, wrecked or stripped to the point of it only be useful for parts OR

A #4 which is defined as "Good: A drivable vehicle needing no or only minor work to be functional. Also, a deteriorated restoration or a very poor amateur restoration. All components may need restoration to be "excellent", but the vehicle is mostly usable "as is"."

Hope this helps. Guide is American.

Todd

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

electricmayhem wrote:

I don't at the moment as the car is at the shop. The quotes I gave would be what the mechanic and body shop would charge to make it pass Nova Scotia safety inspection which is pretty harsh. (You can't have any fill on the car all the rust has to cut out and welded). I have someone who is interested, but I have no idea what I should even ask.

Good rules! how many cars were sold, in the past, with chicken wire and bondo! I wonder , if they scrape off the paint to check for proper patches confused

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

I had a 71 Skylark when I was 17 that had a rear 1/4 full of bondo and Molson Canadian beer caps. Cool car, EH?

electricmayhem · Newbie

That gives me a place to start. Thanks for all your help! Beer caps and bondo are pretty awesome though.

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

where the beer caps outside or inside the bondo

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Inside, behind the rocks and cardboard...

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

I heard all those Buicks were like that! confused

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Only the $400 ones are...

Astro Jet · Poncho Master!

In my youth, every car I owned was full of bondo, some I had to redo each year. biggrin

I assume it is 350 2bbl with auto, PS, PB and AM radio and not much else. If it has any extra options, that can enhance the value quite significantly. PW? Rally gauges? AC? tint? any performance options?

455gto · Poncho Master!

$660 for a parts car??? Bucket seats run $400-$500 for cores.Denpending on the options some of these cars are worth more parted out than sinking over $6000 into it or selling them whole.
Your car is the same as the GTO.Some GTO guys have more money than brains.This being said I just shake my head at some of the prices that OEM parts are going for.
Like what was mentioned before.Options add money and stock parts like carbs do as well

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I've been watching the 68 and 69 converts on ebay and on the right day a decent looking one can be picked up in the 7-10,000 range it seems.

With that said, on a good day some of them bring 12 or more too, so kind of hard to nail it down.