What was I thinking?

[GT]

Then you're really going to hear about me buying my 68 Road Runner in 1979 for 75 bucks.  (I still have the receipt in my toolbox I believe)

Nice - i bought my 70 Charger in 1979 for $25...  $75 after the tow home.

[Lord Warlock]

Looking back, I only looked at cars a short time before I bought my first.  And a majority of the "good buys" that I ran into were actually in a 5 year time span between 1978-1983.  I bought my charger in 1978 for 800 hard earned dollars delivering papers every morning for 4 years.  At the time I got my car, I also looked at a friends 1966 GTO clone with a 400 4spd he was selling for 600, and a 69 Superbee with a 440 4spd for 400, engine was out of the car but was complete, I even went and looked at a Hemi Challenger convertible, body was rusted, holes in the floor and in rockers...but today it'd be classified as great foundation, then it was just too much ugly to fix, but it had a brand new chrome 426 hemi in the engine bay, and a 4spd on the floor, and they wanted a whole 1200 for it.  Only one car had me thinking of trading it and that was for a cherry looking 1970 GTO convertible with a 400 Ram Air III and a 4spd, I eventually talked my dad into looking at it and he offered the guy 2500 and got turned down, he said he'd trade me even for my charger though.  It was the first time I realized that the charger was going up in value rather than down. 
In that same 4 year time capsule, a shop owner offered to sell me a complete, brand new 426 hemi engine in boxes in his shop for 600 bucks...only I had just paid for repairs to my mom's car and couldn't afford it, and I had just recently completed a motor swap on the charger putting a 440 from another charger r/t into my car, and really didn't want to do a repeat so soon. 

[Barfyspitz]

Yeah, we were lucky we had the foresight to grab em when they were cheap

Got the 69  Charger for 1700 in 94
The 70 Challenger in 90 for 1000
The Cuda in 2000 for 2250

I though I got ripped off all three times....LOL!

lol sounds like you did pretty good

[HANDM]

Yeah, we were lucky we had the foresight to grab em when they were cheap

Got the 69  Charger for 1700 in 94
The 70 Challenger in 90 for 1000
The Cuda in 2000 for 2250

I though I got ripped off all three times....LOL!

lol sounds like you did pretty good

Yeah, now it does but then it was alotta cash that I didn't have.... I think I even put the Cuda on a credit card 

[Baldwinvette77]

inflation isnt that bad, in 1992 2000$ was about 3200$ in 2015 

[472 R/T SE]

I was a BowTie lover until after I graduated high school in '83.

Soon after one night we were out in my buddy's '57 Chevy trolling for races like every other weekend.  We came across a '68 Coronet R/T that had a reputation as one of the fastest cars in town.  He's the one who approached my buddy one night about a race.
My buddy Dave laughed @ him and said he heard about his car & was reluctant.  The Coronet owner said he blew up the 440 & now was just running a mild 383.  I remember his last words to entice Dave.  "Let's just do it for shits-n-giggles."
Well heck yeah, let's go.
My buddy Dave ate him up out of the hole up through the gears & I was hooping & hollering since the '57 would sometimes bog down during a race, not this time....we're gonna win.  About that time we heard the big Mopar hit 3rd & it started walking us like we were in molasses.  Holy shit we learned that night what Mopar torque was all about.

5 months later the R/T owner was in a bind.  His girlfriend was pregnant & the oil patch was slowing down.

He took the car out to Jerry J. @ Wheels'n'Spokes & he offered him $2500.  I told him that if he waited for me to sell my '70 Camaro I would buy the R/T for $2700 if he saved it for me.  He did.







Anyone remember the newsletter Galen G. used to distribute?  I remembered 2-4 wrecked Daytonas, one rolled, etc. in the $10-15k range.




I bought my all blue '70 Charger R/T 4 gear for like $17k.  I got one of Dane's Daytonas & $15k cash back around '04 for it after I became paralyzed.