On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:28:52 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah yes. Hindsight is 20/20. In 1975 or thereabouts early seventies hemi cudas > and challengers were selling for about $2500. That's a far cry from a quarter > million. > > I do have one car in storage (although I drive it a bit): a near mint peaches > and cream '55 Belair convertible. I'm waiting for the run on fifties pastel > two tone convertibles. It will happen. The car collector market is cyclical. > Paul
Hmmm. 1975. Three years after the Arab Oil Embargo and resulting Oil Crisis. I wonder why they couldn't give away Cudas and Challengers? <vbg> I remember around that time, my parents were shopping for a used car, as their 67 Dodge Dart GT (sadly, it only had a 225 slant six - if it'd had a V8, ooooo mama!) had just crapped out. On the lot there was a used Super Bee, for about the same price as the car that they ended up buying. I pleaded with them to get the Super Bee, but they got the used 1973 Dodge Dart Swinger (again, with the slant six). Turned out to be the worst car we ever owned. If only they'd have listened to me... <vbg>. I've been watching Barrett-Jackson off and on over the last few days, too, Paul. Fun to watch, eh? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
