'Correctness' is less of an interest now than in the
past. Folks with fat wallets are dazzled by pretty paint, shiny chrome and
the vroom-vroom of a big engine. So the fact that the 220K bumble bee
started out as a single tone yellow with a 361/4bbl is of lesser concern.
If you ask the seller for paperwork proving that it's a true Super D500, he will
tell you to get lost.(Note: I'm speaking in general. I know the former owner of
the 220K car and he would be honest about it's history.)
IMHO, for milestone cars, such as Chrysler 300 letter
cars, it tends to be more important. But still less than in the
past.
Ron
In
a world where 59 Dodge convertibles all show up as Super D500’s, I’m not sure
motors matter. The entire driveline out of the Yellow/Black 59 Dodge vert
that sold at BJ last year was from a Desoto. It sold for 220,000. A
white G car is not going to bring much of a premium, regardless of condition.
Color matters. Auctions America ran through 3-4 letter cars 2 years
ago, all white. They all sold for 55-65k. It’s just the going market.
Mike
Let me ask a possibly dumb
question. I was told “Numbers Matching” didn’t begin until 1967 or
thereabouts. Hence, unless it was say a 383,how would you know ?
Thanks,
Val J Sent from Yahoo Mail for
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 2:02 AM, mark love marklove@xxxxxx [Chrysler300] <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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If the engine is not
original. Will make a diff
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I haven't seen this G, despite being in
touch with them they didn't come two hours to the Elkhart Lake '16
national meet. He tried to buy a G engine block off of me so it probably
has an incorrect engine. So, the price doesn't seem too crazy low to me.
There may have been a G coupe or two that sold for more, but from what I
hear those were the outliers. So the important point is YES let's drive
and enjoy them, and pay less for insurance. And maybe some young people
will look at these as affordable and take some of them on. If you are
worried about values my opinion is we will soon be running out of rich old
guys who want these cars.
AM
Having seen the car,
up and down and knowing it belongs to one of our members, I regret that
the car didn’t command a higher price. In my somewhat limited
view, this car was done right. At $57k (and if that’s advertised,
then the buyer’s fee of 10-12% has been added to that number), this car
sold at just over $50k. Wow what a car for that price. I
would have thought that car would have sold well into the $60’s.
If this is where the market is going for our letter legends, time
to just sit back, put the pedal down and enjoy them.
Good Morning,
The G sold
at Russo and Steele on Saturday for $57,000.... There is a great
app called Hammer Price that shows all of the big auction results,
plus pictures of each of the cars. I installed the app last year
at Barrett-Jackson and it has performed great! Hope this
helps.
Glenn
Ornat
300D and
F
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