Thread: Classic American Muscle.

Not sure you would call it a "Muscle Car" but I had a '76 2 door Continental MkIV for 5 years , 460 cubes & drove like a boat . Bought it for $12,000 ish in 1990 swapped it for a block of land in 1995 , Sold the land 2 years ago for $280,000 . Mark IV in the same condition can still be had for about $15,000 so I fell on my feet with that one

Originally Posted by goingbush

Not sure you would call it a "Muscle Car" but I had a '76 2 door Continental MkIV for 5 years , 460 cubes & drove like a boat . Bought it for $12,000 ish in 1990 swapped it for a block of land in 1995 , Sold the land 2 years ago for $280,000 . Mark IV in the same condition can still be had for about $15,000 so I fell on my feet with that one

That worked out MUCH better than any of the car deals I've done!
Gotta love a Lincoln, Pickles.

BIL just sold his 383 4spd 1970 Camaro SS/Z. Got 50k for it, about what a good v8 holden sandman ute goes for!!

Originally Posted by justinc

BIL just sold his 383 4spd 1970 Camaro SS/Z. Got 50k for it, about what a good v8 holden sandman ute goes for!!

I passed one of those parked yesterday.
God they are a nice car.

In 1975 when I got married I had a company car, the Mrs. had a near new Escort. Jerry built POS but she loved it. and I had a play car. A 1970 Dodge Challenger convertible with Hemi 426 and 4 speed. A very rare car. It was not original as the original street Hemi had been replaced earlier with a Mopar Performance drag race Hemi. Somewhere over 600 big horses. Stony broke after paying for a wedding, putting the maximum deposit we could rake up on a house, stamp duty, etc. The Dodge had to go to buy furniture refrigerator, freezer, washing machine and so on. I sold it for $5,000 which was market value at the time. It is now worth somewhere over $300,000 and would be more if it had the original engine. Sigh!!!!

Fastest thing I have ever driven other than a couple of pure race cars. The standard convertible body had no aerodynamic add ons like a Daytona or Superbird and got dangerous from 130 mph up as the air pressure was lifting the front end. Still had plenty of go left at 130 which was roughly 5,000 rpm and it would rev to 7,000 in the lower gears. Exhaust note at full revs and load was awesome.

Nicks the real deal,,,

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I forgot, I also had a '62 Compact Fairlane , not exactly a Muscle car either but it would do a mean burnout , Being in my Youth I desecrated it by fitting a 351C in place of the 260W but of course I didn't realise it would not fit so cut a hole in the bonnet & completely buggered it up by putting an A9X scoop on it . The things you do.

FB on the trailer on the way to the Marysville Demolition Derby .

also my First Landy in the background .

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

In 1975 when I got married I had a company car, the Mrs. had a near new Escort. Jerry built POS but she loved it. and I had a play car. A 1970 Dodge Challenger convertible with Hemi 426 and 4 speed. A very rare car. It was not original as the original street Hemi had been replaced earlier with a Mopar Performance drag race Hemi. Somewhere over 600 big horses. Stony broke after paying for a wedding, putting the maximum deposit we could rake up on a house, stamp duty, etc. The Dodge had to go to buy furniture refrigerator, freezer, washing machine and so on. I sold it for $5,000 which was market value at the time. It is now worth somewhere over $300,000 and would be more if it had the original engine. Sigh!!!!

Fastest thing I have ever driven other than a couple of pure race cars. The standard convertible body had no aerodynamic add ons like a Daytona or Superbird and got dangerous from 130 mph up as the air pressure was lifting the front end. Still had plenty of go left at 130 which was roughly 5,000 rpm and it would rev to 7,000 in the lower gears. Exhaust note at full revs and load was awesome.

A genuine Hemi Challenger "CONVERTIBLE" (UNREAL!), that is an extremely rare beast, even without the matching numbers engine, $300K?...I think you're underestimating!!,...and a genuine original 426 Hemi R/T?..could be in the seven figures.
Pickles.