Wagons are "in" now. For $9,000 you could buy a nice Dodge minivan, an older suv, an older Camry, or a real wagon with AC and a lot of money spent on the small stuff. For $3300, that's a real nice car too.

I don't know if the squared off ('77-up) full size have caught on that much in price, but this one looks really good. It might get 9K, but I would think the actual selling price would be a few grand below that, especially given that the seller seems to be in a rush.

The $3300 4-door was an anomaly in that it looked like it was in great shape for a cheap price - and it sold really quickly, which reinforces this.  I would think the sweet spot for these cars would be $5000 - $7000 these days (but I could be wrong)...

I thought this was a post about authenticating a GTO.

-- Edited by norontcan on Tuesday 31st of July 2018 09:24:52 PM

65Camino wrote:

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Where's the GTO ?

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The title of the thread is "You be the Judge". If you like GTOs then "Judge" means something special.

Maybe  they thought, "Here comes the judge" (Laugh-In reference).

 

Either of those big B-body barges are nice examples of respectable cars. I respected these cars when new because they had the space & strong body-on-frame construction, with an eye towards getting rid of excess bulk & size. They were also easier to work on (center stack, diagnostic connectors & modular gauges). No sporty models offered, unless you consider the 79 - 81 Bonneville / Parisienne with buckets & console. The V8s were on a diet & they ditched the decent-sized engines after the CAFE ratings were implemented. Engines like the 350 Chevy (Canada) or 400 Pontiac (USA) were dropped after '79. Clunky & troublesome lockup converters were implemented in '80, but then again so were no-drag disk brakes & smaller a/c compressors.

The wagon may even have one of those corporate 8.75" 10-bolt rears that began on the mid-60s Pontiac big cars. The sedan probably has a corporate 8.5" 10-bolt but be careful, sometimes the wimpy 7.5" was used with engines like the 267 V8. The 7.5" rear was the Vega pumpkin.