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Is it worth it?

Dr.Jass

Dr.Jass

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There really aren't enough pictures to tell the whole story. CO car, so very little salt exposure if any. Covered in junk and snow so it's tough to gauge what the condition really is, but no doubt it's been sitting outside awhile, and that doesn't bode well for E-bodies, ever.

Still, $18K isn't that hard to swallow for a 1970 Six Pack Challenger. Interesting to note that it's a column-shift car; I have no idea what the hell that thing poking up from the floor is, though.
 
If it was complete with matching numbers engine and all that jazz... maybe.

Dry as the air might be around Aspen, I'd be willing to bet a LOT of sheetmetal needs serious work if not total replacement.

More pics would be nice...
 
From the one picture, that car does not appear to be as badly rusted as the 1970 6 pack challenger I sold for 10 grand in 2006. It was also an automatic, but with the more common console shifter. In that car, you could see the ground through the B pillars. Yes, you could see right through the B pillars and rear floorpan.
 
This is one of those cars for which you really need more pictures to decide if it's worth a plane ticket to Aspen to check out. To be honest, this falls into the category of cars I'd actually rather not own personally. Too much mental overhead with a car of this pedigree.
 
True. And, it's slow anyway in anything like stock form. To get it to be pretty quick, you'd have to do a bunch of stuff to it that would devalue it. So, start with a 318 car and modify as needed!
 
Well, there are more pictures now but they still really don't tell one enough. However, it's got clutch pedals so what's poking out of the floor is some kind of half-assed shifter setup. The fender tag clearly shows it's an automatic car. Also, obviously the original engine's gone and the Six Pack along with it, so there goes quite a bit of the value of the car, both as-is and restored. I expect that V-code or not, that's why it's still sitting. The cost of a full-boogie restoration would outpace the resale value pretty quickly, and an enthusiast isn't going to care enough about that E87 code to drop $18K on a do-it-yourself Challenger kit.
 
You'd think, asking $18K, they would've pulled the damn thing out of the woods and done, at the minimum, a quick clean up. My guess is they're afraid of the car crumbling apart when it's moved.
 
Actually, I think the kid's just lazy. "I don't have to do anything. It's a Six Pack car. I'll be fighting back the hoardes with a stick one of these days." He's still waiting for the hoardes, apparently. My guess is that a few of the local "big Mopar guys" have checked it out already and passed on it (where's gio when we need him? :D ), either because it's very rusty or just because it represents a significant investment they're not willing to make.

Probably the classic case of a father keeping a car for a son who ultimately has no interest in it. A local guy has a '71 'cuda 340 that's loaded with factory options: Curious Yellow, elastomeric bumpers, shaker hood, factory rear window louvers, 15x7 Rallyes, Go-Wing, hood pins, etc. He bought the car when it was only a few years old and always said it would be his son's car if he ever had one. Now his son is, I dunno, 25 or 26 years old, and has never once shown interest in the car. He's into fast cars, but his interest is in the WRX STi and Evo VIII-type Japanese hot rods. I think a lot of it is that his Dad's kind of a prick (they apparently don't get along very well) and he was probably yelled at for going near the car for over half his life, rather than having fun with it.
 
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