For those that think these cars are a waste of money, not true performance cars, cost to much to restore, blah blah blah. You all are sadly mistaken. They easily take a pontiac motor, handle like a champ with little work, plenty of NOS/oem parts to be had, the aftermarket is HUGE for these cara due to the use in circle track racing.
Yes the value of these cars is jack shiz compared to any "classic" but that's because there are no "rare" options, no "rare" color combos, and they made about a billion g-bodies from 78-88. Eventually after these cars start to dry up and my generation starts to buy the cars that they grew up with (just like the older generations with the GTO's, firebirds, etc) these cars will increase in value. And all the price jackers like red75pacer will put these cars out out of reach. They don't want to pay jack for the car but want a small fortune for it when they go to sell it.
This car in question could be fully restored for under 10k to show room status. If you don't believe me do some price and parts searching. I have a complete rust free frame that could fix this car that I bought for under 75 and repop rear rails are available for (i think) 50 a side. The seats could be replaced with perfect seats from a doner car for 250-350 the carpet 150, the dash 100-350, replace the passenger door 30-100, new bushings 500, weatherstripping 150-450, body work and paint 2000-4000, the rest is labor and know how.
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