Anyone Ever Traded Cars?

[BeatersRus]

back in the early 90-s thru 2000-s,mopars were Everywheres down in NC.

heres a wacky story,i had gone to look at a duster,my friend bought the other car,another 340 duster.
the one i was looking at,was a 70 green 318 car,and i think i paid like 200? or 300 for it and it ran,sort of.
at the same place was an older dodge quadcab dodge pickup,around a 75ish i think,and those 4 doors back then were kinda rare.
had a utility box on it too,i ended up buying that one too,for around 700.
i had to do some cosmetic work and swap carbs,ran fine after that.

got them both home,about a week later a diff guy swings by and likes the truck a lot,wants to do a trade,says he has a 360 duster.
im mildly interested,so i drive over there in the truck.
this guy lives down the road about 3 miles from where i Got the truck! lol.
i pull up and its a factory purple 74 duster with a 4 speed,and Huge meats,pipes,cage,drag seats,the whole nine yards,an absolute monster of a racecar.
he fires it up and drives it around his yard briefly,im like hell yeah lets do the trade !!
i...did not drive it myself.

i go to leave,pull out on the road and hit 60 in .04 seconds....and thats....it....
4:56 in the back,im literally driving this car down the road at 55 Screaming.
get back home like an hour later,im deaf,my nerves are shot from watching the gauges,im done with that car already....
didnt even register it,just put it up for sale right away and then another guy stops by.
he had a 73 cuda,a perfect body and interior but dead motor,i got a grand for the duster plus the cuda.
i had a big block in that car in 3 days ;)
LOL

the other brand
i had scored a 72 400 bb Air Grabber roadrunner that no-one else could buy,it sat right out in plain sight at a railroad crossing even.
somehow?? managed to talk the owner into selling it to me for a grand !! his price !!
and i bought it,did some exhaust work and interior work.
yes it was an original and one of the last air grabbers ever made.

a youngun came by and wanted to do a trade.
said he had a Amx javelin,and that made me take notice....went over to his place,and its a 73 amx 401 4 speed car,an absolutely Beautiful car,near mint,my car has primer spots on it.
turns out his dad got him that car,and was supervising the whole trade deal,which i was fine with.
dad tells me the engine is blueprinted and balanced and built.
the kid took me out back,showed me extra wing and fiberglass hoods,which i left there like a young dumb moron!! lol.

i ended up making a deal for the car,a trade,and a new holley carb,because the kid said the car didnt run right,and 500 bucks Cash to me.
Good money back then.
drove the car home and sure enough,it was a dog,no balls at all.
odd thing was,if you were under the hood working the throttle,the engine revved up like it was a dragon.
started looking around and discovered the Wedge of Wood underneath the gas pedal carpet ;)
apparently dad didnt trust junior to be able to handle the full beans.
took the wedge out,and didnt need a new carb,boy did that car Run.

memorable notes,
the dad had a Super cool 413 crossram motor freshly built on a stand in the garage,he was a total mopar guy,had a challenger and a cuda in the garage too.

no clue how or even why they acquired that amx,but it was one of the best cars i ever owned,and cemented my love for those underdogs.

 

[Runcharger]

1980 I traded my Challenger for my buddies 55 F100. It was a neat truck but the 428 got beaten on the street a few times and I was more than happy to trade back.

 

[71RRHI]

My one and only trade was back in the 90s when I traded a 78 Camaro Z28 that was my wife's daily driver for a 18' Bayliner. She wanted something that got better mileage and I wanted a boat, so I did the trade. I inspected the boat but the battery was dead, so I got a lot of info word-of-mouth from the cousin of a friend that owned it. When I got it home and put a battery in, I learned that the outdrive motor was bad, so I replaced it and got the boat running. The first time I launched it I saw that the winch rope was rotten so I bought a new strap that I planned to install the next time I launched it. So, the second launch I pulled to the top of the ramp, removed the rear tiedowns, installed the plug and removed the safety chain on the winch. As I was backing down the ramp the winch rope broke and the boat slid back off the trailer about 10 feet short of the water and landed squarely on the recently repaired outdrive which stopped the boat from leaving the trailer completely, the nose sticking up in the air. Immediately there was about 1,400 people gathered around to watch the spectacle and inform me that you remove the chain at the bottom of the ramp. Miraculously, the outdrive was not damaged and the crowd helped me winch it back onto the trailer to complete the launch and go boating. There are more stories about this boat, none of them particularly good. The Z was solid and ran great, and to this day I regret that trade.

I have never traded cars, but the only thing more expensive than a project car is a project boat.

 

[SlingLow]

I have never traded cars, but the only thing more expensive than a project cars is a project boat.

Old boats are like manufactured homes. I know lots of people that have owned one, but I don't know any that have owned two!

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Doesn’t even have to be a project boat. Even a new boat requires a lot of attention and upkeep.

 

[RiverRaider]

I traded one of my stock cars for a 1969 Sport Satellite convertible and a Crossfire Trans Am.

Traded a really nice KX125 for a 1973 Road Runner.

Traded a 1974 charger in primer for a 1982 Chrysler Cordoba.

 

[QuickBpBp]

Back in 1987 I traded my 73 SSP 318 survivor 54,000 mile I paid $995 for it off a used car lot engine was "missing" after tune up. I looked at the wires and saw 2 were crossed. I swapped plug wires and drove it for a few months. Then traded it for my 64 Dodge in my Icon had POly 318 and a torn up top no carpet but was painted. Still own it today and the guy I bought it from I run into from time to time and he always asks about buying it back.