What cars did you buy for 2-300 bucks back in the day?

[Cranky]

Bought a few but one was a 69 Fury 4dr with a 383. The car was pretty solid and ran good but had a good sized dent in the RF fender and the AC didn't work. That was in about 75 and paid 250 for it. My house payment was only 167. About the same time an A66 70 Challenger showed up (who even paid attention to what an A66 was back then?). It too was 250. The 340 fired up but ran on 6. Sold the 340 for 250 and kept the 727 for a big block that was laying around. That car was solid too but had whiskey dents all over it. Don't remember what I paid for my 66 Mustang Fastback but it wasn't much. The good old days.

 

[Davefinan]

Sounds like you got some decent cars for the money.
In 1975 I bought a vw bug for 250.00 to use as a second vehicle to my van. My first car was a 66 merc Monterrey hardtop with a fast back design. Paid 450.00 for that in 1973

 

[MarPar]

whiskey dents

 

[Rick@Laysons]

Paid $200 for a '68 GTX 4-speed, running and driving, back in '75-'76...

Paid $200 for a running and driving '68 Coronet 500 383 auto car in '76....

Paid $400 for a running and driving '69 Coronet R/T 440 4-speed in '76......

 

[mrhemi]

Circa 1975, bought an Amphicar to use as a "field" car. Wasn't safe to drive through a mud puddle, let alone float. Paid $50 for and got about a year's use out of it. If I had only known how valuable they would become!

 

[stage3]

when i was 14 i paid half of the 600.00 with my dad for a 1963 dodge max wedge racer that was sitting in a local wrecking yard with the heads and intake in the trunk running bias ply slicks, the black widow was its name.

 

[#41]

$200-$300 is a pretty narrow range.... but here goes:

76 Monte Carlo $200, with a freshly rebuilt 350. Drove it slowly 3 a few blocks to gas station on two flat tires, and then home 15 miles.
74 Charger SE $200, loaded car with 360, AC, sunroof, AM/FM, etc.
72 Dart $250, /6 POS, but rust free.

Drove them all home, except the Dart, which I told the guy I'd buy if he could drive it to my house. It did, and I gave him a ride home.

The list of cars between $0 and $500 is much, much longer.

 

[eldubb440]

69 Buick Skylark for 50 bucks..... I was 15....... wrecked it day 2 running from the cops Duke style......oh the drama

 

[eldubb440]

bought my GTX on a 20 dollar deposit......drove it home the next day (900 bucks)

 

[Runcharger]

$700 for the red one and for $100 he threw in the convt. Used the 18 spline and Dana 60 for my Challenger and junked the rest, 1977. Standard price for driving 440 C-body donors seemed to be $300 for me, never stayed in the yard long enough to take pictures of them though.

 

[eldubb440]

69 Buick Skylark for 50 bucks..... I was 15....... wrecked it day 2 running from the cops Duke style......oh the drama

as a matter of fact...... it was Good Friday 1980, 45 years ago ...... it fell on April 3rd or 4th that year

 

[autoxcuda]

$300 in 1988. 55K miles. Little old lady from Santa Monica.
Drove to HS in LA and then collage in Iowa.
Sold in 1997 in Iowa for $3500 (I think) to Dennis Slaymaker in Spencer IA.

 

[PROSTOCKTOM]

I gave $200 for this one 4-years ago.

Tom

 

[Cranky]

69 Buick Skylark for 50 bucks..... I was 15....... wrecked it day 2 running from the cops Duke style......oh the drama

Did you crash it in an area where they couldn't see it? IE, did you get away lol

 

[eldubb440]

Did you crash it in an area where they couldn't see it? IE, did you get away lol

I'll cut to the chase.....no pun intended

it was late at night and raining...... I wound up on the local highway after he lit me up and I was running, I pulled out in front of a pack of cars and he couldn't..... I knew he was back there somewhere, but not very far.....

I was headed for the farm fields, then the woods....... I hung a hard right onto a side street and slid into someone's yard

I managed to get control and headed back out toward the road, but there was a tree in the yard ......... so I cut it back into the yard and missed the tree

I headed back out toward the road and drilled a telephone pole ...... never saw it

he had flown past the right turn; I had him beat........ until I didn't

 

[6t4polara]

57 chevy sedan three on the tree 283ci in 1968.
$250.00

 

[Geff McCarthy]

in 1962, $100 for a pristine, cpacious 52? Plymouth 4dr, not a rip in the lovely upholstery. My roommate decided to drive it from C Springs to Tacoma to see a flame. Blond. Made it to Denver where the engine blew up. Sold it for $5. Our next auto adventure was a straight 8 53 Pontiac. not nearly as nice. I have never forgiven him.

 

[Ron H]

Hard to believe what could be had SO cheap. I had for a very short time, a ’62 T-Bird vert with the tonneau, gray with red leather interior and the wire wheels. It was so cheap, $250, and my folks were t-bird lovers EXCEPT my mother didn’t like the bullet model years. Body was good, engine was running rough. Anyway, we had enough vehicles in the driveway and one parked along the driveway my dad was looking to refurbish, plus their partly stripped down ’57 bird in the garage. Another project in waiting; had to make my buy exit quickly..

 

[Cranky]

Hard to believe what could be had SO cheap. I had for a very short time, a ’62 T-Bird vert with the tonneau, gray with red leather interior and the wire wheels. It was so cheap, $250, and my folks were t-bird lovers EXCEPT my mother didn’t like the bullet model years. Body was good, engine was running rough. Anyway, we had enough vehicles in the driveway and one parked along the driveway my dad was looking to refurbish, plus their partly stripped down ’57 bird in the garage. Another project in waiting; had to make my buy exit quickly..

I found a 52 Ford 2dr sedan for 50 bucks....running but smoked. IIRC, flathead V8 (I remember it was a flathead) with a perfect body but the interior was in a shambles. This was about 65 and dad wasn't "having any old Fords sitting out in front of the house" and that was all. I would have been pissed had it been a 57 lol

 

[Richard Cranium]

I bought a slant six 66 Coronet 4-door for 75 bucks somewhere around 1979-80 and drove it for 2 years.