70 HEMI Charger R/T-SE 4spd, the only red one made

[njsteve]

Spent the day printing out some photos and text for the display at MCACN next week.

This one is the sequence of the three prior owners, and their reunions with the car, plus the original mechanic and his son on the right (four generations of his family worked at Suburban Dodge over the years)

I have enough of these frames now, with the original documentation and paperwork, I can encircle the entire car!




If you are at the show, come on by and say hi. I'll be in the SYC display. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Now that the Scottsdale auctions are all over, feel free to give me a call in case you didn't find the car of your dreams out west. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

I am still looking for a new adoptive parent for the Charger.

Drop me line and we can talk.

Here's another vintage photo of the car taken in 1987, when Pete Ianelli owned it. It was stored under that blue tarp, in what resembled a wildlife preserve for vintage musclecars. Hibernating in the yard was a blue 69 COPO Camaro, a 70 L78 Camaro, a 70 LS6 El Camino, a green 69 Hemi GTX, a 73 Superduty T/A and a bunch of other equally rare beasts.



-NJSteve

[87gnsurvivor]

$285 K for this car??
Man that is a lot of money for that car, i would say you are way over the market value for today.

[njsteve]

Yes, it is a lot of money for the car.

Try to find another one. - you won't because they made only one.

Try to find another hemi car with 43 years of completely documented ownership.

Or unrestored with 17,000 miles, still riding on its original 1970, owner installed wheels and tires.

With the only known set of dealer-installed and ironclad documented, Scat Pack hemi headers.

With every single piece of documentation since even before it was built.

As for market value? Show me a comparitive sale of an unrestored 426 Hemi, four speed,70 Charger R/T-SE. There was a yellow 70 hemi R/T Charger (not an SE) that was beautifully restored, which privately sold in the same ballpark within the past year or so.

P.S. I was told the exact same thing in 1987 when I sold that yellow 71 Hemicuda ragtop for $54K. I had people calling me and telling me how I ripped off Otis Chandler by making him pay that much for a hemi car. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

Markets go up and markets go down, but quality cars will always be worth what you pay for them, long after you bought them.

[Tracker1]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 87gnsurvivor</div><div class="ubbcode-body">$285 K for this car??
Man that is a lot of money for that car, i would say you are way over the market value for today. </div></div>

Ahhh the myth of polite Canadians, shattered again. 87gn, I notice you are new here. Welcome. If there is a site on the internet where you can learn more about american muscle cars - particularly of the bow-tie variety - than this site, I haven't been there. I thought I knew a lot. Then I came here. Sit back, read, learn, listen. And if you open your maw and get it wrong someone will politely set you straight (there's that word again).

You don't know this Charger, obviously. It's special. Very special. Beyond its rarity, its history is so rich and so reflective of what a &quot;survivor&quot; truly is that it nearly lives and breaths and has a heartbeat. You should dig up some info on it and learn about it. The question you should have asked is &quot;what makes it so special for someone to want 285K?&quot; You would have gotten your answer in an informative, civilized manner. Instead, you were torn a new one. If you enjoy that, go to moparts.com, they do that over there to guys who just say hello. If you want to talk american muscle (particularly Chevrolet dealer Supercars) and learn some cool stuff that will impress your friends, or even share your knowledge, this is the place to be.

So, welcome, relax. Listen first, then talk. And thanks for wanting to bring Steve's car back up to the top. We have that in common, as well as the fact that we are both impolite Canadians.