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Time will tell. In any event, it is a rare car so it's not going to tank thats for sure.
I had to remove the photo you posted. Way too big for our page. It throws off the whole format. There's a free software called VSO Image Resizer so you know next time.
Anyway----asking prices are not market value. You can ask whatever you want for a car. Appraisers always try to search for validated sale prices, so that's why perhaps you and I are off by $20K-$30K. We'd have to follow through on the advert to see what really happened.
If you find any "hammer prices" (SOLD!) post the link, that would be helpful.
I can get an idea of what the car is worth, but few people have an idea of what real value the factory air adds to the vehicle.
Any ideas?
This presumes it's a 2-door Impala hardtop.
Smog equipment doesn't matter one way or the other. Someone wanting a fanatically correct restoration to match a build sheet might want it, but then nobody is going to do that kind of resto on a car like this, so the point is mute.
Really, these days, unless you start with a very nice and very important car that you inherited or bought 30 years ago, 95% of all restoration projects today are financial suicide, guaranteed. As one magazine put it, all you're doing is restoring it for the next guy to buy cheap from you.
Which is why the only thing I'll think about (in my daydreams, of course), is a 'rolling restoration', a decent running car that I can both drive and work on as I see fit to pour money down that drain
I worked at a garage in Long Beach, California in the early 70's which did emission work, and I remember the disorganized early days of emission controls very well.
I was shocked to discover that at some point in its life, my '76 LeMans had a smog pump. I didn't notice at first, but in 2007 I had the car at the GM Nationals in Carlisle PA, and I was showing its engine bay to a guy who had a '77 LeMans there. That was when we both noticed this one silver metal tube. I had thought it was just part of the a/c system, but then noticed it wasn't connected to it. That's when we also noticed a place on one of the pulleys for an extra belt. So we surmised that the thing originally had a smog pump.
So would that mean that this car was originally sold in California? Or by 1976, were there other locales requiring a smog pump as well?
K19 A.I.R. Cal Only
The K19 is described elsewhere on a Chevelle website as:
"K19 AIR , smog pump, '66+"
www.carspace.com, then click on "my carspace" to get started.
But yeah, a normal car is just going to be a nicely kept old car...and most of those have very low demand.
I guess T-Bird colors were shared with Lincolns, not with the other Fords.
it was a lot of fun, for relatively, not a lot of money.
one of those ford 'euro' attempts that fizzled after a few years.
they even put in a speedometer that didn't stop at 85.
http://www.motorcarportfolio.com/product.php?id=2915
Chrysler letter cars after 1961, after the G, are very weak cars in terms of collectability. The seller is trying to ride the coat tails of the letter cars that actually meant something. Think earlier/later T-Birds for example.
Interestingly, that coincides perfectly to when the non-letter 300-Series came out. I guess it worked out pretty well for Chrysler at the time, since the non-letter 300 was pretty popular. It sort of replaced the old Saratoga as the mid-line Chrysler, although at a cheaper price point than the Saratoga had been. Unfortunately though, it watered down the 300 nameplate in the long run. But that's the Detroit way of doing things...look how "Fury", "Bel Air", "Impala", "Fairlane", et al all got watered down over the years.
For me, the 300 lost a lot of its magic for 1960, when it started looking too much like the other Chryslers. The '57-59 were unique with the forward-thrusting trapezoidal grilles, while the '55-56 also had a unique grille (well, it used an Imperial grille rather than a Chrysler grille, at least). The '60 was still a pretty hot car though, and could be had with a 4-speed.
Too bad you can't see this '65. I'm certainly no authority on these cars (I can barely spell "300L"), but this one in dark blue looks good to my eye. Never really noticed them before. I've always loved that funky shape of the C-pillar common to mid-1960's mopars. Just didn't know they put'em on cars that big.
Love the Magnum wheels and red line tires too. You could put those on a baby stroller and it would look good to me. Factory A/C that supposedly "blows cold" (ever hear a dealer say anything different?) is a nice added touch.
This dealer apparently loves to put ridiculously high prices on their cars and doesn't care how long they take to sell. They also have what appears to be a nice '64 6-window Sedan Deville listed at $22,900. They've had this one for about a year. $13K-$15K would be all the money (assuming it's as nice as advertised) and you'd really have to love it for that.