Mid year vettes were considered junk by a lot of people in the early 70's. My dad bought a running one in good shape for $100, but the headlights would not go up and down and he did not even bother to pick it up. This quickly changed in the early eighties when people started having a summer car and a daily driver. But if you remember back in the seventies, most people drove their hot car as a driver and that ruled out a lot of "special" cars. I know one guy that loved the big-block roadsters with air and he acquired as many as thirty of these for a little more than what some guys have into their cobra builds.
The big engined Shelby Mustangs: I think Shelby himself used to call them POS's in the 60's because of the size and weight gains over the smaller 289 race cars
Hemi' Cuda's The convertibles were so out of favor that people did not even bother to buy them when they were new, and many people who bought the big engined cars in the 70's quickly put smaller engines in them for gas economy and insurance savings.
The Z-28's and RS camaros were pretty regular cars throughout the 70's and early 80's and except for the big-block cars that most people changed out for gas economy and insurance reasons they were not seen as exotic where I grew up.
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Originally Posted by RedBarchetta
'70-71 Hemi Cuda (hardtops and convertibles..rag tops get huge premium)
All of the Shelby GT500/KR Mustangs
All mid-year ('63-67) Corvettes
Any matching numbers First Gen Camaro with RS/SS/Z28 heritage
I could do this all day....  |
I could too. I love all these cars, I just have always found it interesting how stuff that is "out-of-favor" at one point in time is treasure at another, cars may be one of the best example of that.