Most of the original prices are missing - the # 340 gone - now a Blueprint Engines 408 - aftermarket K + shifter - aftermarket seats / wheels - few if any of the missing factory components come with the car. FF4 paint decent.

https://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/threads/1970-duster-408-price-reduced.543040/

$25K for a green on green Duster? Seems pretty high. Whats that driveline worth...and go from there.

Great color, but all the custom stuff would need to go & he sold the original parts.

Absolutely ---- it is a factory 1970 340 Duster which I like - but it is so modded with aftermarket parts that the originality is gone. I don't know why he swapped out the K member - the seats are an easy fix --- the rest are good quality aftermarket stuff.
Buying something like this means you really just want a modded hot rod. In a few years - to resell - the car would need to go back to original parts - for best sales strategy. There in lies the rub. Original 340 A bodies bring good money --- this car to me is more like a $15-18K car even though it probably drives out very well. It's the old story that when you modify a car to your taste - you may not attract many buyers with the same taste.

Thankfully he did not butcher the sexy flat hood with a scoop or two.

But the other modifications?

I wonder if it is a pump gas engine...I could see 14-15 grand..

The guys posting some of these ideas of what this car should sell for crack me up.
I watch A bodies pretty closely, especially in my area.
Anything that looks decent and isn’t a rust bucket around here with a 340 or 360 is 20k. If it’s got anything going for it at all, go up from there.
That car looks like to me like its probably worth asking, assuming it runs drives nice and is as solid as it appears. All that in spite of the fact there are things I don’t like about it..the seats for starters.
One of these days in the not distant future my modified A body is going to be for sale, minitubbed, 8 point roll car, non numbers 340 stroker, yada, yada…and it won’t sell for anything remotely in the same neighborhood of this Duster.
Sometimes these what is it worth posts more closely follow what people want a car to be worth, not what they actually are worth. Just my humble opinion.

Sorry that you are offended Don. I'm just taking a guess as to what the car is worth and what I think it should maybe sell for...I am not up to date on today's market...

Not offended at all, my friend. Just surprised at what people think stuff is worth compared to reality..lol

Thanks Don!

In spite of the seat deal - apparently the seller has the stock stuff one nearby - it seems pretty clean, and could make a decent bracket car with a few changes.
Probably not particularly fast, but could be fun.
Low 20s for anything presentable is pretty much the market, it seems.
(Don't even ask what I sold some nice cars for 20-30 years ago ! )

Now listed as : Final Price of $20K. Worth looking at seriously for that price, even though the aftermarket stuff is a turn off. Return the original seat to it's stock location, do some other things to make the car appear more original or just drive as is.

Yes...I would be interested in that too! I wonder still if it is a pump gas engine..

It says the engine is from BluePrint, and pump gas engines are all they build.

Imo....$20k is a killer buy for someone who wants a hotrod more than a restoration or cruiser

Some of these wiw threads posted here on what some of these cars are worth is almost comical.

I've looked at a few cars in low to mid teens over the past 2 years

And they ALL Still need another $5k to $10k to make them right.

Mid teens doesn't buy squat in today's market unless you get damn lucky.

I agree with many who feel its not a bad price. So it may not be the dream car but a nice car but its in the 20k range not the 50k range.

Pretty easy to make a starter list of the prices just to buy a starter car. Price a S60 , price the parts to build even an entry level cast crank stroker just for examples. When you get you list done add on 25% for all the little stuff thats gonna nickle and dime ya to death. Then ask yourself how many hours your gonna have in the car and pay yourself $10 an hour.

For many not hooked on what it was and for one who just wants a nice car to drive and thrash a bit.... there it is. Folks get hellbent on green. Get over it, it was a color of the times and many of all brands were green. But hey, nothing 10k and a year at the body/paint shop cant fix.... all while many of use are old and hell by time its out of the body shop you might not be able to walk.

Just saying there is a lot of positive aspects to a decent car thats not all hacked together thats ready to get in and drive. Or feel free to got the purist route, shell out 50k on one that people will still take issue with if not 100% correct in there eyes... (How many wrong hose clamp meltdowns do we see?)

This is where the internet is jacked up a bit. Back in the day a person found a car in the local paper and went and looked and if they drove and liked it they took home there new toy and was happy as a lark. Now every old guy is a critic and then an expert, just ask them.

Ever notice some of the nicest cars, weather driver or resto mod never get posted on the web? Hard to have a happy hobby when everyone is a cynical chief with only a few Indians around.

"Pretty easy to make a starter list of the prices just to buy a starter car. Price a S60 , price the parts to build even an entry level cast crank stroker just for examples. When you get you list done add on 25% for all the little stuff thats gonna nickle and dime ya to death. Then ask yourself how many hours your gonna have in the car and pay yourself $10 an hour."




the above sums it up as plain as it can get. [and i work cheaper than any person on the planet at times......]
plus, we ain't gettin' any younger !
also, in all seriousness, realistically, how many guys have the tools and skills to pull off a "build from a shell" ride ?
i'm not trying to be a smartazz here, and not referring to a show car either.
painting equipment and body working skills ? upholstery skills ? wiring skills ? [i'm not referring to installing a "kit"] and the list goes on a lot longer than you would think.
when someone "wants" a [particular] car, i always ask them what tool selection and mechanical/body skills they have, and sure enough, they possess a lot less than they thought they had or needed for the car they wanted.
sometimes they get upset, other times they are glad i pointed out what i had.
my main point is, i have made [almost] ALL of these mistakes in my years of playing with cars, and i simply do not want others to have to go through my failings and misery.
just my humble opinion formed through my lifetime. your mileage will vary.

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My buddy sold this one (1971) roller for 6500.00 three years ago and the guy agreed if he wanted it back he would sell it to him (original 340 car). My buddy sold the 8 3/4 out of it when he needed it and replaced it with an 8 1/4. Well the buyer built a mild 360 for it, spent crazy money to have a 727 built for it, bought another 8 3/4 for it with 3.91 gears, put Caltracks on it with mono links. It’s now running and my buddy bought it back or 10,000.00. I think he got a great deal.