Hah! I know I'm a bit jaded, and that prices have been going up, but maybe we just have more for sale around here. Like I alluded to before, you buy a rust-bucket for 4500, and then a week later you find a 1-owner '77 with 89k miles and in good shape still for $3500. The prices are still just all over the place.
And yeah, that same '77 in another market, or at auction, would be advertised for 40k by some. Seen similar prices just recently. In fact, several have come up on Craigslist and elsewhere in the 20 to 25k range that were not all that wonderful. Fancy and pretty decent yes, but nothing worth what they were asking. A few months ago, you could have had three pretty much ready to go, fully optioned, recently painted, EFI'd and lifted EB for $7500 on Craigslist.
So it all depends. But since I've seen several rigs go in the $1500 range in recent months, I stick by my previous estimate.
Regionally speaking that is...
As for your DD, unless it's body is falling apart with rust (like this one), no way would I say less than 4500 if it was relatively tame and moderately clean. Even if very little was new or updated. It just has to be clean and relatively rust-free. Remember, in CA we figure rust is a big deal, and "rust-free" (depending on your definition of rust free I suppose) is not as hard to come by in most cases.
If yours has lots of bolt-ons and is high in "goody-factor", it'd get a lot more. But to be more than 8k around here, it'd have to have a fair amount going for it.
Just two years ago, I passed on a super-primo-completely-restored-and-updated-to-the-nth-degree-with-EFI-etc '75 for $14K. In that case, I think it was worth every penny. Not a lot more, but every penny of that and I would not have felt like I paid too much. But it was like Mary Poppins... "Practically perfect in every way."
Paul
