For starters don’t think that the tone of this item is against the guy selling the car. Far from it. The seller here had a ton of clean photos, an upfront approach, and made no bones about the fact that the 1972 Challenger Rallye he was selling was a totally and complete rot box. I came across the ad just before Christmas and decided to monitor it to see if the car sold and if it sold for, how much. As it turns out, the car did sell and the winning bid was a shade over $5,000. Yes, a shade over FIVE GRAND. You are shrugging when reading that here but when you scroll down to look at the photos you’ll understand why our eyes are bugged out a little.
Clearly someone out there sees a deal, an opportunity, or a chance to add to their collection of yard art. The best prices we have found for these cars in exemplary condition is somewhere in the $30-$35,000 range. There’s no shot in hell that you can do a full bore restoration on this car for $30,000, right? Are there $5,000 worth of parts to pull off the rotting carcass of this car? Again, we are not questioning the seller’s motives. That guy was 100% up front and square about the condition of the car.
Our minds are kind of boggled right now. $5,000 is a bunch of money and we’re just amazed that the remains of this 1972 Challenger were worth that much to somebody. Is that just us or you, too?
Here’s the text of the now closed ad:
Up for bid is a 1972 Dodge Challenger with the Rallye option. Only 6902 Rallyes were built in 1972. This car has the 340 motor with a pistol grip 4 speed transmission. The car also has (some of which might be) factory options such as Tachometer, Am/Fm radio, Center console, rear window defogger, Front Disc brakes, front and rear sway bars and power steering cooler.
The car is original with the exception of the addition of a electronic ignition and aftermarket air cleaner. The only items that I can see that are missing are the factory air cleaner and the front bumper. The fender tag is not legible so I do not know if the rear axle is a 3.23 or a 3.55. Also the broadcast sheet under the rear seat is not there.
WTF?
I have NEVER seen such a rusty car in my life – I’ve seen wrecks on Scottish Islands that have spent years exposed to salt water and gales look like show cars by comparison.
I think that this guy’s desperate as you don’t borrow money off Don Lampredi Ferrari’s boys and take on the 50% vig without having the means to pay it back. Like I could care less!
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It would be a gas to give him $5, get it running and drive it in to two bulldozers at full speed in homage to that great movie Vanishing Point – at least that’s what the Don’s got planned for this guy……
ahhhh, Geordie, all you have to do is replace the door jams and the rear frame rails and the floors and………every fricking thing else made of metal 🙂
the car drove into the
bulldozer was actually
a Camaro
I hope the new owner has a account set up with AMD.
If you were into ’72 Challengers and you happened to have a decent but bare body sitting around, the 340/pistol-grip, 8 3/4, front discs, gauge package, good front/rear trim etc. and finally the title off that car would be a nice score. Price certainly high but if it were exactly what you needed and was going to save you a lot of trouble, it would make sense. It’s more likely however that was not the exact situation and somebody just got silly…it would be interesting to know.
It’s over 40 years old, you don’t see them every day? Worth 5000? Well it is and was to the right person.
underscoring (in heavy font) the truth that you have to nuts to do mopars.
Price makes sense if you have a super nice stolen car and you need clean paper and VIN to sell it overseas.Asia loves American muscle..$$$
I would say someone is buying the car for its clean title and VIN. Anything can be restored , but what’s the point with this car? It’s not exactly ultra rare , and even if you were able to do all the work yourself ( which is unlikely ) it would simply not be worth the time and effort . It would be interesting to see what would be left to work with after this thing was soda blasted though.