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does this 1968 442 jive..??


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also...it has no stripe ..but a nice chrome strip that runs along the whole side.....and interior and underside is mint

the car has just been painted and looks good..and very low mileage...and all

#'s matching

is this car worth 22k???

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sorry, I don't believe that cars worth anything near $22K. Looks like it has few options & you'll have to put a new fuel-sending unit in it... </div></div>

fuel sending unit..?? how you know...explain..

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Probably not so much a new sending unit as cleaning the grounds and getting some fresh fuel in it. My cars will do the gas hand past full thing on old gas- not that any of it is really worth a damn anymore; some of it will sour in 30 days or less. However, if the sender is fried, they can be rebuilt for $75-100 which is chump change on a $22,000 car.

I think $22k is optimistic for that car too, but with the current musclecar frenzy, it could well sell for that or more depending on which high roller gets involved.

Raider-rant time.

Options. Y'all have GOT to realise that fully optioned cars were the exception back then. People simply did not order cars with all the creature comforts we now take for granted on KIA's, and it kinda blisters me when somebody dykes a car out with all available options for the year. Especially if the options in question don't suit the original personality of the car, i.e. full power and one of those freaking outside thermometers an a four-speed W30 car. Didn't happen, folks. I was there, and the options that well-heeled baby boomers insist on slathering on now during a restoration (more properly called a "restification") simply were not ordered.

Guys will tell me, "This is the way <span style="font-weight: bold">I'd </span> have ordered the car new." Bullcrap. It's the way your dad would have ordered his Ninety Eight or Cadillac, and even those weren't always loaded. You were making what, two bucks an hour, and you're talking about ordering $1500 worth of options on top of a $4000 MSRP?

Ehhh. Time has a way of changing yer perspective, I guess. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Raider-rant off.

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Guest Dave Wyatt

I'll have to agree with you Glenn, the options were few and far between when these cars were new. My 70 is a prime example of the standard musclecar of the era. PS, PB, 4 spd, buckets, console, AM radio with rear speaker, limited slip rear. Plus the extras of a light group, air shocks, and special paint. For all intents and purposes, it was rather highly optioned than most. It had been ordered in for dealer stock by whoever did the ordering for that dealer, probably an older salesman, and sat on the showroom floor.

Most cars on the lot were less fancy. Your high option cars were typically special ordered for a customer. Dealers wanted to sell cars and most musclecars buyers could not afford too many baubles and do-dads.

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Guest SASSYSUE

22k for the car? no way! that engine is a rusty mess. it looks like it would blow up any second. id say a realistic price for that car would be less than 10k. the outside of the car isnt bad but the engine compartment needs lots of tlc.

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