Quote: I have followed this post from the beginning, and have watched the rhetoric build. It is a great post because it brings into play personal bias, rarity, supply and demand, documentation, urban myth, missing motor, last of an era vs the era was all ready dead, and on and on, all in one cool WIW. IMHO I say 50K, in today's market, using some of the sound reasoning in some of the previous posts. The criteria used to price rare & obscure cars is totally different(and hard to peg)than that of all other combinations.
The second question one should ask is what it's worth done? Are you giving up a lot in opportunity cost to sell it as is? I am with the others, sell the superbird and restore it correctly!
If you have to pay someone else to restore it, the most money to be made is selling it how it is right now. And with the used parts instead of NOS parts. Sell the NOS seperate.
If costs $60K to restore it to really nice detail, I don't see it being worth $60K more than it is right now.
Finacialy, better to keep the Superbird. The market is flooded with those. Not flooded with 440-6 sunroof cars, especially 72's!
I'd start by benchmarking value off of a 71 RR or 71 Charger R/T six pack sunroof. I think there are a few of those out there. What do you all think those are worth?
That 72 RR/GTX 4spd 440 4bbl sunroof car that sold for $121K is throwing a curve at me. The resto is OK, but not top level by todays standards. It's seems like a non typical selling price (IF it indeed sold for that much). That car without sunroof is no more that $40-45K.
