You have to be kidding! 3800 miles.

[onebadmk8]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodg...tcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Mike_Dodge]

I saw that in the car corral at Hershey last week.

 

[AdamR]

wow, clean

 

[69 Runner]

I wonder why it was in "neutral"?

 

[kidsixpack]

Not my cup of tea, but it sure is a nice car. looks to me like 3,800 is correct. It's funny that so many cars that are worth nothing survive in that kind of condition. I guess kids just bought and abused all the muscle cars?
KID

 

[MOBodyman]

How about 7.5 miles?

A couple of years ago I looked at a '55 Coronet that had 7.5 ( yes, 7 and 1/2 ) miles on it. It had the roof crushed when it was new and never fixed. There was even a new roof skin in a wooden crate. I should have bought it but I just had too many projects at the time.
Dallas

 

[eastsider]

that thing is very nice

 

[69 Runner]

so what happened to the coronet? what did they want for it?

 

[696pack]

Not my cup of tea, but it sure is a nice car. looks to me like 3,800 is correct. It's funny that so many cars that are worth nothing survive in that kind of condition. I guess kids just bought and abused all the muscle cars?
KID

Actually, it was/is more common than you might think. When I was selling these cars new we would see 10-30 year old cars quite often that had VERY low miles and were perfect. They were most always 4 or 2 door sedan family cars that belonged to farmers. They drove pick up trucks all of the time and the car was only used to got to church or some special "dress up" event. When they finally got replaced (traded in or sold) they got resold to someone that usually just used it as cheap, clean, dependable transportation or maybe someone continued to treasure the car. Often they would not even bother to trade the car when finally ready for a new one and the old one would continue to sit in the machine shed as there was usually extra room. Sometimes the wife did not drive and if the husband passed away the car just continued to sit in the machine shed undriven for years.

In those days it was not uncommon to find old model As and Ts sitting in a shed that were super nice and low miles. That is where a lot of the chopped street rods with "good metal" eventually came from.

 

[Chris-Turbo]

wow, nice.
but how much is the reserve? ;)

 

[MOBodyman]

so what happened to the coronet? what did they want for it?

I'm not sure. I went over there with a friend who bought a '40 Plymouth business coupe. I neglected to get the guy's name and # since I thought I could get it from my friend any time if I needed it. I didn't count on him losing the guy's # and the directions to his place. Anyway, I'm back on the trail. I hope to go over there again. The guy had some interesting stuff.
Dallas