Cascade Crew

[miamivice]

so i guess being in the mopar world has gotten to me. numbers matching stuff is everything, vin, broadcast sheet, fendertag, engine/trans, body markings...if you car has all matching numbers it increases value big time.

do our 3rd gens have numbers like that? if i remember correctly there is a sticker on my hood w/ the vin number on it. are there any stampings on the engine/trans or anywhere else on the vehicle?
i guess our 3rd gens are not really considered "classics" or "collector vehicles." it seems half of the people who own them have replaced their motors or have modded the heck out of the vehicle.

currently in the mopar world everyone is going for stock resto's as they, alot of people are dragging out their older cars which had been modded back in the day and replacing everything w/ stock parts.

does anyone forcast this with our cars in the next 20 years? even since i first bought my 3rd gen i see less and less on the road.

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the reason im bringing this up is that sources have found my numbers engine out in arkansas and im currently trying to buy the thing back:

[chevymad]

Ya, our engines etc are all numbered. Actually there are probably more #s on our cars then on the old cars. Doesnt seem likely right now, but yes eventually the muscle car type craze will include our cars. Right now they're still in the highschool kids first car stage. After enough of them get wrecked, they'll start getting harder to find. Most of us will probably sell ours to raise kids etc.. When they're grown we'll want the cars we had back again. This is when the price will go up.

When I was in high school, I bought my first car, a 68 impala, for $200. My second car I paid $325 for. It was a 68 SS 396 chevelle. A real one. My 3d car was a 71 malibu, it was cherry. It cost me $2200. I bought all of these between 85 and 90. Look what any of them would cost today.

[miamivice]

[mrpopo573]

At our lot, the number matching machines go for the highest, HIGHEST, amount.

IE: a 1970 Charger RT Hemi. Poop Brown. Pistol 4 Speed. 1 of 14 made with certain interior combo. Price: 145,000. Sold in 4 days.

Yet number matching only goes so far, as I will pay more for a beautiful body and original sheet metal than I will a rust bucket with an original floor shift, in the basic muscle machines.

However, any of the 50's and early it is more about either perfect originality, as in 235 CI inline 6 and original tranny OR all out street rod with mustang II front clip and IFS. The 30s-40s in broad terms just comes down to original metal. For the most part.

In our experience, the rods with the modern undercarriage, big motor and loud exhaust bring more than my farmers original hay trucks.

Just my .02 Cents. And as for thirdgens, I seriously doubt any money to be made off of original motor/drive trains when almost all of us have suffered from a lack of reliablility and power from the factory. Even twenty years from now, only the IROCS that lived in a garage and have under a 100,000 on them will attract any major collectibility. (GTAs and Turbo Trans ams also)