Fair price for 70-72 Eggcrates?
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Fair price for 70-72 Eggcrates?
As part of my 1972 coupe overhaul, I'm having the body shop swap out the front clip for a 68/69 style version with the gills instead of the eggcrates.
The bodyshop made a comment that they'd be interested in taking the eggcrates off my hands once the swap is complete.
What would a fair price be for the eggcrate inserts - whether to the bodyshop or if I was to sell them on here?
The bodyshop made a comment that they'd be interested in taking the eggcrates off my hands once the swap is complete.
What would a fair price be for the eggcrate inserts - whether to the bodyshop or if I was to sell them on here?
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If it were me, I'd keep the egg crates. Maybe not keep them on the car..but keep them somewhere. That way if you ever sell the car and someone utters that terrible phrase, "that's not original," you can reach into a cubbyhole and say, "nope. But these are". That raises the value enough IMHO to be worth keeping the parts even if you don't keep them on the car.
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If it were me, I'd keep the egg crates. Maybe not keep them on the car..but keep them somewhere. That way if you ever sell the car and someone utters that terrible phrase, "that's not original," you can reach into a cubbyhole and say, "nope. But these are". That raises the value enough IMHO to be worth keeping the parts even if you don't keep them on the car.
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Burning Brakes
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If they are nice originals you should be able to get at least $150 each. I thought about replacing mine with the gills. I was just going to splice them in, not do the entire fender. Are you doing the chrome inserts in the gills?
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Or you can be like so many FIREBIRD owners and put a Chevy engine in it. If a CHIEF motor was so good, this would not happen, correct?
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69 gills in my 72 fenders
If you want the 68-69 gills, but don't want to go through the expense of re-doing your entire front end, then I have the solution.
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Your "before" car was stunningly beautiful.
I like your after look too. Not as sure about the look in your avatar. Are you a sponsored car? Are those companies paying you? Or do you just like the look of stickers?
I like your after look too. Not as sure about the look in your avatar. Are you a sponsored car? Are those companies paying you? Or do you just like the look of stickers?
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But I didn't start with a collectable car. I started with a stock Firebird that had a 286 V6. Horsepower of a lawnmower. With the torque to boot. And utterly worthless.
Had I had a Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am I'd never have done so many mods. I'd have sold the higher-value Trans Am and bought a Firebird and used the difference to help finance the mods. Or just bought the cheaper Firebird right off the bar - as I did.
With my Vette, I'm going to eventually pull the engine and go rat-rod, but I'll keep it looking stock and I'll keep the original engine - as well as whatever else I replace.
To me - and this is just me and my dumbass opinion - I like knowing my car is worth something, so even when I mod it I'll preserve that 'original' value by keeping the original parts...
Just me - you do whatever you want. It's your car! Land of the Free afterall!
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Those were the sponsors of the 2011 Hot Rod Power Tour. This paint job was a race car tribute just for the tour. It is going to be stripped back down and re-done this fall. The avatar pic is one of the Hot Rod magazine guys interviewing me for a magazine layout on the 2011 Power Tour. I am not sure if they will put the car in the magazine this year or not. I made it in the magazine last year with the previous paint job. I haven't quite decided on the next paint job, but whatever I choose, will be it's final one.
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Those were the sponsors of the 2011 Hot Rod Power Tour. This paint job was a race car tribute just for the tour. It is going to be stripped back down and re-done this fall. The avatar pic is one of the Hot Rod magazine guys interviewing me for a magazine layout on the 2011 Power Tour. I am not sure if they will put the car in the magazine this year or not. I made it in the magazine last year with the previous paint job. I haven't quite decided on the next paint job, but whatever I choose, will be it's final one.