Agreed, as it has power nothing, otherwise, I feel the price is not that far off. Maybe closer to $7K. Certainly worth more than $5-6K for SoCal. Because at that price point, you start getting serious beaters. Too bad, he's going to pass up on it, because it's a nice looking Mid C3 in a pretty rare color (and of course, owning a Dark Metallic Brown '74, with a four speed, I'm a little biased).

You can add power steering, tilt-tele, etc without too much difficulty. Still, the interior looks very clean and most importantly, I don't see a whole lot of anything 'Bubba', that's for sure. The engine compartment looks good too (L48, L82, at this point, you're gonna build it anyway). And as far as the stick shift, they increasingly become rarer and rarer as the C3 line moved along through the years (until they were outright eliminated). Get the four speed car! They are very fun to drive, even L48 flavored.

 

The car isn't a purists dream, will you mod it or try to go back stock?
Do you love the colors? or you can paint it to suit you?
It is car really okay on rust?
I am in Florida and cars like this sell for like 6k it takes a while to find the great deals and they do not last long but they are out there, took me over a year in 09 to find my 69 convertible but I got it to the door for 6200.00 then at this point I have about 12K total in it and at about 13K it will be in daily driver better than it was in 69 condition....

 

I paid a lot more for my 1973 only to find out it was in need of a lot of TLC and replacing 40 years of neglect.

From the list it appears a lot has been replaced under the car....how much more is needed you will fine out.

Door Panels are for the upgraded package, motor bay looks pretty un molested, you no it is in need of paint and some body work.

The big plus to me is it is a 4 spd...No that said the A/C compress is going to set you back another $400, seats cushions and covers $600-700, in time you will need to replace all the vacuum stuff and hoses for the head lights, Weather stripping, door pulls and little misc parts.

$8500.00 for the car
6000.00 est for what it still needs
6000.00 for paint and body work (if you paint it then maybe less)

$20,500 -$24,000 invested should times go wrong.....2 ways to look at it.

You have a car to be proud of and happy as hell to drive knowing you are way in over what it is worth.....maybe you have a son or daughter to leave it too.

I need another beer as I forgot the second way to look at things.

How bad do you want a project....You just want to make it a driver for a wile and pass it on or fix all the issues?

This when from this



To that once I opened the can of worms



After knowing nothing matched anymore I said I want it the way I want it.....

New 375 HP 350, new trans/stall converter.



They aren't making another cars like these so is one way you could be saving a little part of Autorama/Americana at your expense.

$8500 would be a fair price but I would offer $7000-7500 and see what happens.

Just my opinion and hell what do I know..... I am still dumping money into the 1973.

Karsten