Anyone here like Muscle Cars...??

[Drsracing]

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sweet, thanks.

[sambencuda]

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Can you believe the grille prices for those Cudas? They may as well be made of gold. I know a company is going to be offering reproduction Charger grilles soon, so hopefully Cuda grilles will be next in line. Though I am sure even those will not be cheap.

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I saw a few at Carlisle earlier this month

Completly restored 70 cuda grill = $2300
Completly restored 71 cuda grill = $3200

I bough that cuda in the pics for $3800 in 97 with the grill! If you get a car without a grill, you're screwed!

Jim

[Jim Shine]

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They are even hard to find in good shape for Chargers, but nowhere near as bad as the Cudas. I bought 3 on the internet all had pics taken in such a way to hide the major flaws. Once in a great while a NOS Charger grille pops up for around $1500, but that rarely includes the stainless trim. That trim makes up for atleast half of the value (NOS I pices are getting over $300 these days, sometimes as much as $600).

I ended up settling on this one because it was the cleanest i could find for under $500. Its only flaw was the fact it was notched for a block heater cord. The notch is almost completely hidden by the bumper. I may cut a patch out of the old one and epoxy it in just to make it look alittle better.

[Drsracing]

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I've seen mirrors go for 2k, 15in Challenger fenders for 2k. Ebody stuff is INSANE.

[sambencuda]

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Hell yeah it is. If you don't find a semi complete car, you are totally hosed. I almost bought an AAR shell from a guy in PA, but when I went to look at it the floors were gone and I don't mean rusted bad, I mean gone and way past where replacements could be used. By the time I would have found and bought everything to complete it It would have been cheaper to pay 30k - 40k for number 2-3 car already done. It's gonna be tough to get back into it.

jim

[Jim Shine]

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Its pretty bad when you even dream about finding #4 cars. Especially now that a #4 is worth approximately what a #2 was maybe 6-8 years ago.

[Drsracing]

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318 cars are up to 20k-30k now. Luckiley the 71-72 B Bodies aren't high yet, those are my favs

[pro-fusion]

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I've always had a secret lust for muscle cars, but what really floats my boat is a 'Q-ship'--your average Chevy or Dodge sedan that boasts 300hp but looks like a granny car. Don't ask me why, I don't know.

My parents had a barebones '65 Cutlass coupe that was insane, according to my dad. It had the basic 350ci GM V-8, but it would absolutely spin out if you floored it from a stop. My dad said that it might not have had quite the H.P. of a Cutlass 442, but that it wasn't much slower because it was lighter and didn't have air-conditioning or other power-sucking amenities. It's almost insane the amount of raw power that Detroit was putting your average grandmother-mobile back then.

My dad tells a funny story about that Cutlass. In central Montana about 1970, he was trying to pass some guy in a high-dollar Mercedes on I-90 at about 85mph. The Mercedes driver started speeding up to prevent my dad from passing him. At about 100mph, my dad decided he'd had enough and floored it, leaving that high-dollar Mercedes behind like it was standing still. Just try that today in your average GM piece o' shite!

[Jim Shine]

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I know a guy who has rebuilt literally thousands of old Mopars for TV shows and Movies and his personal favorite Mopar engine was the 340. If he had to build a high performance stunt car he would totally customize the 340 with a custom ground cam, etc..It gave him the torque of the bigger engines, but also significantly reduced the weight by still being a small block.

In a related topic, I was reading a Mopar magazine in the grocery store the other day that had an article on a high performance rebuild for the 318 that can coax out 400HP!

[Drsracing]

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I like the 340 cause you can rev them up to 7k almost stock. If I build a dailey driver it'll be a 340 backed by a 6 six peed, with 4:10s

[sambencuda]

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Great motor. That's what both my Cudas had. I've never owned a big block, but I'm not disatisfied. If I come across one I would go for it, but I guess I'm just familiar with the 340.

Jim

[Drsracing]

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I like my big blocks in B-Bodies but in the a and E's give me a 340

[pro-fusion]

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Mopar stuff was bulletproof, wasn't it? My dad had a '67 Dodge pickup until very recently. He finally got rid of it because he was down to scouring junkyards for parts, which gets old after awhile--and we're obviously not talking about a vehicle with high collectability. But the 318 in that sucker ran as good as the day he drove it home in 1980.

And just look at all the Valiants/Darts you still see driving around with those slant-6 engines. Those are like cockroaches--they will be the only vehicles to survive a nuclear war! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[wulfe13]

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1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 Baldwin Motion Phase III. Only 12 were made! They ran like... 11.2 in the 1/4 mile. And they had power windows, rear defrost, reverse lock out lever, and an Overdrive lever hooked up to a M22 Rock Crusher 4 spd. They had like 575hp straight off the showroom floor! [img]/images/graemlins/drool2.gif[/img]