I've owned, driven and worked on more 2nd gens early to late than most. Making later models run like any 71-4 round port will cost more than suspension and disc brake swap. A ws6 car really handles no better than the early cars with the same tires and the rear disc are marginally if any better than drums. All of them are fun to drive, some more than others. Much like '64-5 mustangs, the high production numbers combined with everybody dragging them out to restore for profit will soon drive the prices of the later cars back to reality. Just because well heeled buyers who grew up with smokey and the bandit are throwing money at them does not make them as good an investment as early ones. That being said, I don't care about the monetary value as much as I enjoy the cars, if I did I would have sold my '71 a couple of years ago for what most would call "stupid money".
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