[njsteve]

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OK, now it makes more sence. but still I wonder why the hydraulic lifter Hemi is worth more then the solid lifter Hemi car convertible's. Take the camaro for example, I am sure, That a 1969 camaro RS/SS L34 high performance hydraulic lifter 396 convertible with air conditioning is rarer then the same car with the L78 solid lifter 396 without a/c, but the L78 vert.is worth more.

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It's not the motor that's worth more, it the cars they came in in 70 and 71. The E-body (cuda and challenger), the B-Body: Charger, Roadrunner, GTX, Coronet Superbee and R/T were all a bit more refined in 70 and in 71 the body style changed to the "fuselage styling", so you had two years of cars with two totally different body shapes. Also the 70 and 71s were the rarest years. I think the most common post-69 hemi car was the 70 hemicuda at 652 hardtops. That's a raging sales sucess for a Chrysler product. For example, they only made 112 hemi Charger R/Ts in 70, the last year of the "coke bottle" body style: 56 four speeds and 56 automatics. Of those 112, 10 were R/T-SE four speeds and 4 were automatics....and all 14 are still around!