[njsteve]

Remember that rare does not necessarily equal valuable. The hemi cars are in such demand today because they were what the high school kids pined for back in the day. A Corvette would have been a pure fantasy for an average kid back then but the hemi was an $800 option on just about any B-Body Mopar in the 60's and early 70's and at least was a foreseeable dream for a kid. You could have bought one for under $4000 back then. (that's why you see a lot of the cars with manual steering and manual drum brakes...because the other options cost so much back then.) You also could have loaded them up with so many option that they surpassed a Corvette's sticker too.