'69 Impala - Cheap?
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My mrs has become highly addicted to the american show Supernatural which features a 69 Impala ie this one
Anyway today she has been searching on the interweb and found this one, which appears to be advertised for $1600-2100. Is that excessively cheap? and how much would importing and such like set someone back?
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1969impala4dr0624...
I am aware that this is a massively silly and potentially expensive idea but the mrs would like to know
Ta in advance
Anyway today she has been searching on the interweb and found this one, which appears to be advertised for $1600-2100. Is that excessively cheap? and how much would importing and such like set someone back?
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1969impala4dr0624...
I am aware that this is a massively silly and potentially expensive idea but the mrs would like to know
Ta in advance
Edited by Killer2005 on Sunday 19th October 16:27
Killer2005 said:
My mrs has become highly addicted to the american show Supernatural which features a 69 Impala ie this one
Anyway today she has been searching on the interweb and found this one, which appears to be advertised for $1600-2100. Is that excessively cheap? and how much would importing and such like set someone back?
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1969impala4dr0624...
I am aware that this is a massively silly and potentially expensive idea but the mrs would like to know
Ta in advance
Anyway today she has been searching on the interweb and found this one, which appears to be advertised for $1600-2100. Is that excessively cheap? and how much would importing and such like set someone back?
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1969impala4dr0624...
I am aware that this is a massively silly and potentially expensive idea but the mrs would like to know
Ta in advance
Edited by Killer2005 on Sunday 19th October 16:27
I think that you'll find that the car the Winchester boys actually drive is a (much prettier in my book) '67 Impala. According to Jensen Ackles the car is a real old clunker of a small block car and the sounds are all overdubs of one of a big block muscle car belonging to one of the crew.
Edited by TheMighty on Sunday 19th October 22:38
See the New York license plate?
Be afraid.. be very afraid. New York gets road salt that makes anything you get anywhere in the UK a joke. Imagine roads that are white with salt for 1/3 of the year.
It is cheap, but you are FAR better off spending more for a nice one, unless you need a ragtop, or a big block SS or something, 69 Ompalas are not generally expensive cars. Personally if you want a 4-door I would try and find a Caprice.
Be afraid.. be very afraid. New York gets road salt that makes anything you get anywhere in the UK a joke. Imagine roads that are white with salt for 1/3 of the year.
It is cheap, but you are FAR better off spending more for a nice one, unless you need a ragtop, or a big block SS or something, 69 Ompalas are not generally expensive cars. Personally if you want a 4-door I would try and find a Caprice.
Show your wife this. They dont seem to be very flattering about one!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ePisYhvNmF4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ePisYhvNmF4
Edited by Marquis_Rex on Sunday 26th October 19:45
Although classic car prices went through the roof in the US, the current economy will no doubt drive them back down.
As a rule of thumb, the expensive and desirable classics all have 2 doors - a Plymouth Roadrunner will command a huge price premium over a 4 door satellite for example.
The slight exception is TV cars like the Ford Gran Torino as featured in Starsky & Hutch but you have to be prepared to spend a lot of money on a brick of a car to get the correct look plus the '74 Torino was emissions-strangled. I suspect that BLACK '67 Impalas have gone up in price but a blue Impala doesn't make anyone think Supernatural any more than a green Torino would make anyone think of Starsky & Hutch. A car this size costs an awful lot of money to respray even though it's cool in it's own right IMHO. They do handle like yachts though and steering "feel" is something of a misnomer - more a case of steering slack rather like the tiller of a galleon.
The engine in a '69 was pre-emissions and is quite capable of making it's own very nice noise (notwithstanding they dub everything on TV regradless) with a judicial alteration of the exhaust. Anyone who thinklsotherwise should listen to my mate's Chevelle. It wasn't until the 80's that they started messing round with EGR valves and dropping the compression ratios and power outputs to cope with emissions. That said, what often happened is that these early cars wore their engines out and had later, inferior low compression engines fitted which is why a "numbers matching" (engine/chassis) car is always worth more.
Not that with steering like a cock in a sock, you would want to deploy huge amounts of power - not even in a straight line....
As a rule of thumb, the expensive and desirable classics all have 2 doors - a Plymouth Roadrunner will command a huge price premium over a 4 door satellite for example.
The slight exception is TV cars like the Ford Gran Torino as featured in Starsky & Hutch but you have to be prepared to spend a lot of money on a brick of a car to get the correct look plus the '74 Torino was emissions-strangled. I suspect that BLACK '67 Impalas have gone up in price but a blue Impala doesn't make anyone think Supernatural any more than a green Torino would make anyone think of Starsky & Hutch. A car this size costs an awful lot of money to respray even though it's cool in it's own right IMHO. They do handle like yachts though and steering "feel" is something of a misnomer - more a case of steering slack rather like the tiller of a galleon.
The engine in a '69 was pre-emissions and is quite capable of making it's own very nice noise (notwithstanding they dub everything on TV regradless) with a judicial alteration of the exhaust. Anyone who thinklsotherwise should listen to my mate's Chevelle. It wasn't until the 80's that they started messing round with EGR valves and dropping the compression ratios and power outputs to cope with emissions. That said, what often happened is that these early cars wore their engines out and had later, inferior low compression engines fitted which is why a "numbers matching" (engine/chassis) car is always worth more.
Not that with steering like a cock in a sock, you would want to deploy huge amounts of power - not even in a straight line....
Twin Turbo said:
Killer2005 said:
Its sort of good news for me then, I can get back at working towards a Mustang as my next car 
Now ya talking. What generation of Mustang?
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