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Why do I?

I believe the decal kits for those cars can run about $1k.

Sad thing is I have the room if the wife were to park on the drive and I could make the time but probably not going to happen anytime soon.

When the '78's came out I was about six years old and thanks to the whole Smokey and the Bandit thing I have loved those cars ever since. I owned an '80 back many moons ago, mine was a hard top without the T's though. I love pretty much any of the first or second generation cars. As a kid I was seriously po'd at Pontiac in '82 when they changed the body style, LOL!
 
"lethal289" said:
Buy it, and put it in the wifes spot. Maybe it would solve a couple of your problems! :craz :scar :eek:mg
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I like the way you think...you just might be on to something there :lol
 
Needing pans I'd say the T-top seals are toast but I think its a great price for a solid looking car. All aero parts seem to be there.

Go ahead..you know you want to. :$$$
 
yeah, I'd like to. My buddy has told me several times he has free space in his storage but I usually try to avoid thinking about that, LOL!

Main argument against it is I am not done with the Mustang yet. I'm getting there quickly but not quite there. I still want to do something with the transmission eventually, debating doing something with the gears and have kicked around adding sub frames but I am getting pretty much done except for other very minor things.

I saw a really clean '68 Trans Am for sale with a fresh motor in it a couple of weeks ago for about $7,500 that was located a couple of exits north of me...needless to say that ad was not up very long at that price but in a way I'd prefer the '68.
 
I love those cars. A guy in my club has one that has the T-top and the hood graphics. Very popular with the other Mustang guys too when he has a gathering at his house.

If I had the space, I'd grab one of those. And a Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino. I love early Camaro's.

Don't get me wrong, I love Mustangs, and when the fastback is done, the next project will be a Mustang as well, but if I had the money and the room, I'd have a massive collection of cool cars.
 
You could probably find a Gran Torino of that year and paint it yourself to look like that for a lot cheaper.

That one is so expensive because they claim it was used in the actual series.
 
How much someone paid (or claims to have paid) in the restoration of a car is kind of relative though.

I stopped by one local shop for a quote when I needed floor pans in the Stang. They wanted the better part of $3k to replace a couple of pans. I laughed at the guy and told him he was out of his bleeping mind as I was getting back in the car. I was planning to do them myself but wasn't sure I knew exactly what I was doing. Then I meet my friend who said he could do the pans for $800 in labor if I bought the parts. The better part was I went to his shop and did a good chunk of it myself...I learned a lot going that route and learned enough that I easily figured out from there how to do the fender apron and core support myself. Next time I have something that needs floor work, I can do it myself. However, if I hadn't known any better I could have easily spent $3k just on the floor pans. Some of these "restoration" places...well, I'd suggest bringing your KY with you if you hire them to do work. It might be that whoever spent $60k in the restoration could have used a different place and gotten it done for $25k or something along those lines.
 
Local guy has just bought 3......one is a silver ann......one a regular 82......one a turbo with riccaro seats.......all are drivable, needing restored, and under 5 grand each.
 
A buddy sold his 78 (I think) Bandit edition last year for right around 20K :ep
 
"silverblueBP" said:
A buddy sold his 78 (I think) Bandit edition last year for right around 20K :ep
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A year or two ago that was pretty typical. I wanted to buy one off a guy in Kileen that was getting deployed for $8k a couple of years ago but he had sold it by the time I found his ad. At the time, $8k seemed like a real steal compared to the very few others I could find. Now I see similar 70's model cars for sale every week. People are hurting for cash and selling off the projects I guess.

If you have a really nicely done one though and have the time to wait on the right buyer $20k is still doable.
 
"RustyRed" said:
How much someone paid (or claims to have paid) in the restoration of a car is kind of relative though.

I stopped by one local shop for a quote when I needed floor pans in the Stang. They wanted the better part of $3k to replace a couple of pans. I laughed at the guy and told him he was out of his bleeping mind as I was getting back in the car. I was planning to do them myself but wasn't sure I knew exactly what I was doing. Then I meet my friend who said he could do the pans for $800 in labor if I bought the parts. The better part was I went to his shop and did a good chunk of it myself...I learned a lot going that route and learned enough that I easily figured out from there how to do the fender apron and core support myself. Next time I have something that needs floor work, I can do it myself. However, if I hadn't known any better I could have easily spent $3k just on the floor pans. Some of these "restoration" places...well, I'd suggest bringing your KY with you if you hire them to do work. It might be that whoever spent $60k in the restoration could have used a different place and gotten it done for $25k or something along those lines.
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That's fair, except that if you want to do floor pans for the Stang you just call up a Mustang supplier and order them. I'd bet the Gran Torino restoration requires a lot of custom fabrication. Its probably easy to enough to repair something structurally with flat stock sheetmetal, but to make it look right, the fabrication is probably beyond the capability of the average hobbyist.
 
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