"I know what I got. That's a rare car. I saw one sell for $90,000 on Barrett Jackson. Just like this one, but restored, and it was a '70 440 six pack Charger. Basically almost the same. Someone will make a lot of money when they restore this." - owner of this rotten shell parked behind the tractor shed since the 80's, probably.
Shortly after I acquired my fifth GTX, I ran into a guy who had just spent $4000 on the shell of a '69 Road Runner that had been rotting in a field. No engine or transmission, no fender tag. He asked what I thought it would take to get his car to the level of mine, which was a fairly consistent local show winner. I had purchased the car "done," but had still spent a couple hundred hours on engine compartment detailing, and a few thousand bucks on parts upgrades to get it closer to original.
That reminds me... a buddy looked at the rust in my trunk floor a couple of weeks ago and said "Why don't you just back-half it." He was joking when he said that (well, half-joking... probably...). Knowing how much work it takes to replace rotten floor panels has me thinking that a backyard back-half might not be such a bad idea sometimes.
