[Nuck Chorris]

I'm doing some research and I'm having difficulty finding information concerning the used muscle car market in 1970.
Let's say Joe Jackson was looking through the classifieds in 1970. He sees a non tri power, hardtop, 1965 GTO with 60,000 miles. What would the price be about?

[trees]

I'm guessing about $2000 and that may be a bit high. I bought a 68 Cougar, one level below the XR7 with 15XXX miles on it for $1800 that year. Remember, the Goat could have been bought new for no more than $3500 in late 64 or 65.

Trees

[dinger]

Probably a grand, more than likely would be pretty used up. I could have bought a hi horse (LS6?) 70 Chevelle in 75 for $600, smoked a little but still had crazy H.P. Trees is probably pretty close with a decent car price, maybe a little high. Most of the muscle cars were good for about 40,000 miles or so of "hard driving" and would need to be freshened up. A lot of those miles were a quarter mile at a time on the weekends.

[poncho62]

Bought an 70 SS396 Chevelle in 72 for $2800

[31Vicky]

Bought a '65 corvette conv. Base motor, power everything in Dec. Of 1971 for $1250.00

[35terraplane]

This is a little before that, but I bought a new 68 Charger R/T for $3875.00
Had a 1963 Chebby S/S 409/425H.P. I sold just before buying the R/T, for $1725.00 And that car had never been on the strip or driven in the winter. Either car I could shoot myself, when I see what they get for them now.

Bob

[wretched ratchet]

Originally Posted by 35terraplane

This is a little before that, but I bought a new 68 Charger R/T for $3875.00
Had a 1963 Chebby S/S 409/425H.P. I sold just before buying the R/T, for $1725.00 And that car had never been on the strip or driven in the winter. Either car I could shoot myself, when I see what they get for them now.
Bob

You mean you had a beachin' Mopar and a beachin' Bowtie and you switched to FOMOCO? I've been told that if you run a high fever, it can cause that kind of mental lapse !

[TucsonJay]

I don't know if this will help, but....

In about '69-'70, I tried to buy a new 390 Hurst SCrambler, and later a new 390 Javelin SST. The dealers wanted about $2995 for either. My trade-in would have been a beautiful red/red '62 2X4 409 Biscayne. (Early muscle car) :-)

Both dealers offered me $150 dollars in trade. I spent more than that on my redline tires!!! Obviously I walked away and kept the Biscayne! At the time, a '62 Impala 2-door, without the 409, was about $800 used.

I looked at a new '69 Nova for $2900+... but Dad would not co-sign.

I'm jusy guessing, but this would seem to indicate that the muscle cars were in the $3000-$4500 range new.... and a used, low end muscle car about $1200-1500 and up.

[35terraplane]

Originally Posted by wretched ratchet

You mean you had a beachin' Mopar and a beachin' Bowtie and you switched to FOMOCO? I've been told that if you run a high fever, it can cause that kind of mental lapse !

I have run 1 Chebby since a 53 p/u. ran Mopars until 87, when I got the T-BirdTurbo Coupe, only 5500 made I still have mine. I did run Ford P/Us though.

Bob

[deckofficer]

Bought in '71, a 1968 Pontiac Firebird OHC 6, 4-speed, 4 barrel, 32K miles for $1600.00.

[Irelands child]

About the same time frame -----

In 1968 I purchased new, a '68 Torino 390 GT fastback. It listed for exactly $3600.01. I paid $2885 for the car. I drove the wheels off of it going to college 25 miles each way as well as 10 miles each way to work and sold it for $450 with 125,000+ miles on it in 1976 in a fairly rough body condition - remember, rust belt cars didn't survive long

[Capt. Zorro]

I bought a new 1966 Ford,390 3 speed for $3,200. Traded it in on a new 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger 340, 4 speed that listed for $2,800 and had to pay $1,500 boot.

[deckofficer]

I know a re-visit to these prices might have some of you shedding a tear, so I won't mention the price of gas when I was in college in 1971. (hint, more than $0.23 9/10 but less than $0.25 9/10 at the discount stations).

[35terraplane]

Originally Posted by deckofficer

I know a re-visit to these prices might have some of you shedding a tear, so I won't mention the price of gas when I was in college in 1971. (hint, more than $0.23 9/10 but less than $0.25 9/10 at the discount stations).

When I was in high school we had a gas war in town $0.11 9/10 a gallon .

Bob

[CrashFarmer2]

In 1973 I wanted to buy a 69 SS396 4-speed Chevelle that a guy I knew owned, he wanted $1500 for it. Mom wouldn't let me buy it since it was a Chevy. Then I wanted to buy a really nice 1970 Torino Cobra, it had a 429, 4-speed, bucket seats, Grabber Blue and it was a super nice car listed for $1650. My parents nixed that, too fast. Next I set my sites on a 1970 Chevelle convertible, 307 automatic. Not fast, no stripes and they wanted $1500. Mom vetoed that since some old fart she knew had a convertible, rolled it and died. I ended up with a pink and white 1955 Ford 4-door that Mom's school teacher friend wanted to sell for $100. It did have 59000 miles on it and I put 2000 miles on it before I parked the 55 in the shed and bought a 1968 fastback Galaxie for $900 in 1974. I bought a new Ford Maverick in 1975 for $3400. They didn't want to give me much for the 68, That $150 figure sounds familiar so I kept it. I still have all three and I know where that 70 Cobra Torino is sitting but I cannot get the owner to part with it.