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Originally Posted by Formulajones
You might be able to buy those rusty hulks cheaper but take it from a guy that makes a living restoring these things, you're money ahead buying a near rust free example if you can find it, even if it's quadruple the price.
With the current trend of pricing in both parts and labor, less people are taking on those full blown restorations and buying something in between, and in a lot of cases not even restoring them, just driving as is. Can't say I blame them with the current economy.
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About 18 months ago I helped a member on the Corvette Forum liquidate a local estate of an uncle. The guy had 12 cars in his backyard, the latest parked there in 1983. Two were 1968 Firebird convertibles, a 326 car and a Sprint 6 car, HO and 4 speed. Both cars were rust and dent free. Original wheels, lug nuts, etc. I tried to sell the pair of them to a California member here for 9k, then 5k for the Sprint. He wanted to go 4k, wanted us to wait, etc. and I told the owner to forget it and ship them back to Chicago, where he is from. He did, and sold the Sprint for 28k and I think the 326 car for 20k. To a guy who had spent over 25k just to do the metal repair on a Camaro convertible of the same vintage. So yeah, no rust is the way to go.