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Detroit, 7:09 PM
Fri Dec 11
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And yeah, the shifter is on the column, where God intended it to be. That's the proper place from which to control a TH350 or 400. While sitting on a split bench, which dozens of Naugas gave their lives to upholster.
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The only downside to these cars was a propensity for any sheetmetal below the rub strip to disintegrate, making them hard to find in the Northeast.
When I first got into cars, I had a 77 Grand Prix SJ. It was 400 powered and in nice shape for $4,600. I doubled my money when I sold it. The next buyer could double their money now with that car. Look at how much a nice 73 Grand Am goes for. Try $20,000 and up. At an asking price of $3,700, there's some profit potential there if you give it some time.
And a note to abgwin: Fuselages are cool but they're in the AAA league compared to Colonnades.
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I guess it's just an optical illusion.
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Under five grand for something unique and easy to work on, nice price.
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A cheap glasspack exhaust would give it some rumble for a little showing off. The body's in good shape, so you could drive it daily (if it'll start in winter) and get the sexy eyes from girls who don't know that it was crappy compared to its contemporaries.
A few cheap upgrades and some anti-smog deletes and it might even have some punch.
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Anyway, the average asking price on AT Classic was $11150. Wow! I think you can see where this is going. Tack on $5000 for it being a classic and you get a fair market value of $16150, putting this one is serious Nice Price territory.
Of course, just because it's a nice price you don't *have* to buy it. I know I won't be.
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I despise all of the '73-'77 GM Colonnade intermediates. I find them to be horrifically bloated and overstyled, and those last-minute add-on bumpers make them even worse. The only ones that are even tolerable to look at are the '76-'77 Olds and Buick coupes. As for '70s midsize cars, only the hoglike '72-'76 Ford intermediates are uglier. This particular car is a low-line model with the basic no-info dash and column-shift auto. The engine is probably a 350 with 150hp. No mention of A/C. I'll rate it a marginal Nice Price because it might be acceptable value for someone, but you couldn't give me this car.
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However, the price is fair, if not great. It's at the high end of what a '73 Lemans should go for, but its condition looks to justify it.
I'll vote nice price, but hope that the buyer bitch-slaps the seller right after the title is signed over.