Cheap... don't you think ?

[Nacho-RT74]

this thread si not for sale purpouse, just to ask for opinions that's the reason why I didn't posted on ebay section...

WHAT DO YOU THINK GUYS ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8025589316&ssPageName=MERC_VI_RSCC_Pr4_PcY_BID_Stores_IT

[jaak]

man, that is just ludicris, whoever buys those, probably has more money than sense.

[BigBlackDodge]

0 bids............... Wonder why?


BBD

[BLACKWOLF]

LOOK AT THIS GUYS OTHER ITEMS. THIS GUY HAS GOT TO BE ON COKE OR SOMETHING

[4402tuff4u]

Yeah right! I have a hardly used bridge here in NYC to sell too!

[twilt]

not all that surprising to me. not like you can run down to your local parts store and pick those up. cheap? no.  why should they be? when it comes to non reproduced NOS e body parts, nothing is cheap.   

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Someone is buying a Carter fuel pump for $499!!

[MoparMotel]

thats cheap, lets buy 4

[Nacho-RT74]

thats cheap, lets buy 4

Sure... why we buy a 2006 Coron... I mean Charger if you can buy 4 of those.

[Old Moparz]

Some people on Moparts talk about that seller & have known him for having some rare NOS stuff for insane prices for many years. NOS quarters for any ragtop have always been rare, even 20 years ago. I guess if you have an original Hemi car that needs them & can sell it for over ten times the price of those quarters, they're chicken feed.     

For that price they shouldn't be sitting on concrete in the snow.

[ipstrategies]

For that kind of money you would think he would of photographed in a controlled environment instead of out against a tree in the snow.

[viper r/t]

 

[THE COLONEL]

You would have to think that is a typo.  There is always a sucker out there somewhere.

[BigBlackDodge]

All his sales have zero bids.

BBD

[Nacho-RT74]

amazing... no one need them

[Shakey]

Lakeside NOS in MI.

I was gonna stop and see him last summer when I was out that way, ran outta time.  I read that he lost his Wife recently and that his prices are usually high.

[hotrod98]

It's all relative. If I owned a $250,000 hemi challenger convertible that needed quarters, I probably wouldn't hesitate to buy these quarters.
No one makes aftermarket convertible quarters and probably never will. I had to convert regular aftermarket quarter panels to repair my chal convert a few years ago. What a pain.
He'll sell them as soon as the right guy sees them.

[chargervert]

I have a pair of those Challenger convertible NOS quarters,if any one needs them,I'm open to offers!I bet I can beat his price!

[hemihead]

It's like everything else.If you have something it is gold, if someone else has it , it is junk or not worth much.

[dkn1997]

see that bidder question

"how about 1500"  that's funny!!

[Silver R/T]

is gold plating uncluded?

[Charger_Croatia]

is gold plating uncluded?

  Or maybe "titanium oxide over platinum protected"

[Mike DC]

Isn't it funny how people will gladly pay thousands of dollars for 35-year-old thick steel panels that fit correctly (even when they're USED and the spot-welds are drilled out!), while the repro industry insists on producing nothing but lower-priced tinfoil crap for the sake of "cost effectiveness"? 

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[69pistolgripRT]

My wife thought I was crazy when she found out what I had the sport wheel restored for. If she only knew what it cost to have the 8 track and bezel restored.

Maybe I'll save this auction link as future defense for the money I spend on things.

[Nacho-RT74]

Isn't it funny how people will gladly pay thousands of dollars for 35-year-old thick steel panels that fit correctly (even when they're USED and the spot-welds are drilled out!), while the repro industry insists on producing nothing but lower-priced tinfoil crap for the sake of "cost effectiveness"?

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IMHO repro industries need to get better pieces, don't care if prices increase a little bit. When I get the "Catwiskers" from YO I was depressed...  those are UGLY AND BAD QUALITY PIECES NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ORIGINALS. Holes to screws didn't match and end are just cut, not even bended or shaped on ends to give some very good look.

If I would know that I just go to a dealer here in Caracas that sells the weatherstripes by lenght ( 8 feets long ) and would made by myself. They are closer to originals. To cut the pieces as the ones I get, DAMN I CAN MAKE THAT... I would paid around 60% less than I paid and WITHOUT SHIPPING.

If you guys up there ( not only Chrysler restorers, also Ford and Chebby ) don't ask for quality, then nobody will do. SURE I NEVER WILL BE HEARD.

I want to buy some day in teh future for new quarters and trunk extensions, but I'm afraid about that.

[Mike DC]

It's nuts.

15 years ago we weren't doing this.  Back when the resto industry got started, we were mostly seeking taiwanese patch-panels to fix small rust holes in existing cars rather than pay for installing whole new panels.

But now it's a whole different ballgame.  We're no longer patching up cars with repro parts, wer're damn near CONSTRUCTING entire cars out of the parts at this point.  And at the same time our standards have gone way up for what is considered "good repairs."  I think most of the old-car hobby overall is ready to pay more money and get some better panels.  When I'm replacing the entire underside of a $30,000 car, I'm ready and waiting to pay $150 extra to get the repro floorpans stamped out of decent-grade sheets of steel.

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[Dodge-Charger]

It's all relative. If I owned a $250,000 hemi challenger convertible that needed quarters, I probably wouldn't hesitate to buy these quarters.

  If I owned one at that price it better not need 1/4's.

[Nacho-RT74]

DAMN THAT WAS A GOOD REPLY HEHEHE...

When I'm replacing the entire underside of a $30,000 car, I'm ready and waiting to pay $150 extra to get the repro floorpans stamped out of decent-grade sheets of steel.

AND real and perfect match panels... I'm still thinking th carpet I got from ACC. the front half of carpet didn't match perfectly with my car floor and I have wrong cut outs on tranny shifter area. I had to glue again those parts . Maybe was just me becsue I have heard lot of good stuff about ACC, but is my experience.

Neither match with dimmer foot switch area.

[hotrod98]

Gandalf-the-Grey,
If I owned a 250k hemi challenger and someone ran into it say on the way to a car show, you can be assured that I would find an nos quarter panel for it.
hotrod98

[Mike DC]

Gandalf-the-Grey,
If I owned a 250k hemi challenger and someone ran into it say on the way to a car show, you can be assured that I would find an nos quarter panel for it.
hotrod98

That's exactly my point!
A quarter panel is just a stupid hunk of sheetmetal that's been run through a stamping die! 

We act like the human race has lost the ability to stamp a chunk of sheetmetal as well as our bygone ancestors from the 1960s.  Why is it accepted?  I mean, some industries have actually gotten BETTER at producing things since 1969!  Is it some friggin' mystical black art to get the bodylines of a new panel in the same place as the originals?  Was there some buddhist monk who came down from a burning bush in 1969 and taught the engineers to use decent thick steel for the raw material? 

I have friends with other newer hobbies who find it hilarous that I'm so impressed whenever a new repro Charger part actually fits on the car.  They don't know any better. They find it ludicrous to pay hundreds of dollars for replacement parts with holes drilled in the wrong places.  But in the old-car hobby we bend down & kiss Goodmark's nutsack every time they succeed in producing a new panel with all three bodylines on it.

There must be some parallel universe out there where people don't have to pay $4000 for an ancient quarter skin just to get one that's made like the original.

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[my73charger]

So show of hands.... How many of you guys added him to your favorite sellers lists?