Wrecks to Riches 71 GTX,,,sort of

[RAWPWR]

After watching the show and then seeing the 70 RR going for way less. It makes me wonder if the guy that "bought" the car was a real bidder. This car was not a matching anything..nice custom, but to be worth the 70K. If the buyer was a plant, what was the actual high bid?? Maybe I'm just sinical but a numbers car should blow away a 71 what ever and are these really that desirable??

[262chargers]

The second highest bidder was a big name car collector, I forget his name. I think it was the real deal, the couple who bought it said they drive their cars, and hate it or love it, that car was built to drive...

[adauto]

One more question about this episode..... If you watch the show, and it's a different car every episode... were they all done in the course of a year lets say??? Or is there a collector car auction in Reno every week? (month???) THey don't give any dates but I dont know of ant collector auctions that go weekly/monthly.......

[262chargers]

There has only been 2 episodes so far, the "GTX/RR/Satellite", and a red Chevelle. The GTX sold in Reno at the 2005 Silver auction, which is a once a year thing, in August. The Chevelle sold at a Kruse auction, in June 2005.
As a side note, a member on Moparts bought the remains of the 71 Road Runner, and all "left over parts" from Barry White, minus the rear floor pan of course. I'm not sure what he plans on doing with it, but he says it's not too bad, very fixable.

[BigBlockSam]

i think it's a very cool show.

[Chryco Psycho]

The Hemi block Was toast , I agree that any race team uses a block until it is done & it was done , the same story here , I know of a few Hemi blocks but for 1 reason or another they are unusable , as soon as they started chasing a "real" hemi block I knew they were in trouble , they also installed the K frame & tried to stuff the Hemi in from above when it would have been far easier to have the hemi all ready to go with headers on & just either lift it in from the bottom or lower the body onto the K frame
the were very lucky to get a crate Hemi as fast as they did
from a finacial point they did OK the employees were probably paid $20 or less / hr but in the real world trying to build that car as a customer you would be charged $70 -100 / hr so the auction buyer got a deal with discounted labor costs
I would definatly have used a better K frame & Dana diff like a Moser or Strange for probably less then the 9" but I bet they couldn`t get one in 3 weeks
Nice touch on the side lights too 

[hotrod98]

Did they mention what kind of paint they used?  It seemed to change from Blue to Purple when they were moving it.   Maybe dupont Chromalusion? 

On the show, they said Plum Crazy, which to non-mopar folks is a general word for "purple". It's actually PPG Passion Purple.

I thought I saw them mixing "House of Kolor" in one scene.

[262chargers]

Did they mention what kind of paint they used?  It seemed to change from Blue to Purple when they were moving it.   Maybe dupont Chromalusion? 

On the show, they said Plum Crazy, which to non-mopar folks is a general word for "purple". It's actually PPG Passion Purple.

I thought I saw them mixing "House of Kolor" in one scene.

I think you are correct, it was bieng poured from a black can. Some other website I was on called it PPG paint... 

[262chargers]

It is House Of Kolor PBC65 Passion Purple Base Coat Shimrin Designer Pearl....
Here it is on a hot rod...

http://www.houseofkolor.com.au/feature_detail.php?num_cars=8&this_car=4

[RD]

i watched it tonight and thought:

"WOW, so this is how Chevy guys restify mopars!"  And now understand why, I will never do a chevy or a ford for profit.  You just don't give a shit enough to make sure you do things right (totally) the first time.  I bet you if it was a chevy, barry would have worked harder to make it correct (i.e. side marker lights hypothetically).

I do not like the 9" rearend, I do not like the half ass side marker lens, I do not like the pushbutton shifter (cant wait till something else is transmitting on that frequency and the damn thing shifts into reverse while going 55 mph), I do not like the cutting up of an original RR car (71 no less), and I do not like him thinking of the $$$ behind the KB block.  Kind of nice redemption to know he laid down 2K on a shit block though.

[69 OUR/TEA]

Don't know if any one caught this, but because I do body and paint,I notice things like this.In the test ride when they show the car from the drivers side front coming down the street,the sun is on it,and you can see the color of the fender does not match the hood.I did not catch if they painted the car with all the pieces at once,or were the fenders and hood done later at a different time.As good practice,you should be at least base coating all the panels at the same time in the position they will always be.If you then want to remove and clear that's fine,but anything with metalic in it,especially if they are ajoing panels they should be done together.This house of color paint,even more so! Your sealer color under the base coat,number of coats,reducer,and ESPECIALLY air pressure at the gun plays a big part in the final color outcome.How many times have you seen a B5 blue or plum crazy car be lighter or darker than others?And come on,$3000.00 for body work,what were those guys getting paid? Just like overhaulin,I don't care how many guys you have on the body work,I usually spend hundreds of hours on a car,(by myself),getting it straight as can be,and paying attention as to how a panel is actually supposed to be contoured.I did catch some ripples in the car as they were shooting down the side of it.End result,you can't rush the products,with all the coats of polyester primer,and urethane primer that have been blocked and reapplied to get a car straight you need time to let them do there thing,or basically settle out.Even after I paint a car,even if I bake it ,I will still cut and rough buff it to get the shine back,then wait a couple months,(while I am putting the rest of it together),then recut and do a time consuming final buff.

[71gtx]

The car was nice looking, but Barry White is a total *****. Taking a GTX emblem and sticking it in the grill does NOT make a GTX no matter what way you look at it. Do it right.. Call it a modified Satellite, which is what it was. Then take it to auction calling it a GTX and ask top dollar for it. No wonder Mopars are getting so over-priced. 

[Goldfinger71]

I personally did not think that the Roadrunner was beyond fixing.Actually as much work as they did  on the Satellite they could have just
transferred parts from the Satellite to the Roadrunner.Now had they done the same thing to the Roadrunner and installed a hemi in it it probably would have brought more money............................................and it is not that difficult to find side marker lenses for a 71 Roadrunner,if it was a 71 Charger,well that would have been a different story...I do think the Satellite came out nice!

[89MOPAR]

 Lets also take into account the 6% to 8% the owner would have to pay just to have the auction company handle the sale of the car.

I only saw the car at the auction, so I missed the hacking + slashing , etc.