1972 RR/GTX Value?

[ILUV72RRs]

Ok guys & gals. What do you feel a '72 RR/GTX needing complete restoration is worth? The good? It's a 4-speed console bucket seat car, originally Basin Street Blue with white interior, white canopy vinyl top. white C-pillar strobe stripe. The bad? It's not an air grabber hood car. The Ugly? Where do I start?!! No engine, trans, rearend. Basically all gutted. The whole back of the car is cut off and gone from about just in back of the bucket seat area. Including the roof is gone from there, back. No driver's door, no hood, no grille. Right door & right fender are there, but should be replaced. No broadcast sheet. A manual steering, manual brake car. Junk Yard title. So by the time you're done. You'll have pretty much rolled another car under the tags to bring it back to life. We love these cars, and feel they're all worth a million dollars. But realistically, what's it worth, as is?

[72Satellite440]

Id say gutted its still worrth 3000 RR 4000 GTX ..I mean u can go out and get a SSP for 4000 complete and change over the parts and maybe 10 k more in parts more and theres your 20k car..Numbers matching 30+

72Satellite440

[DixieSatellite]

Wow. Do you have a pic as-is?

Ian B.

[BigBlock]

It doesn't sound like a lot of car is left. You would probably be better to find one in bad shape that hasn't been cut on and use the one you are talking about as a donor car for pieces. Just my opinion. Good luck! Let us know what you decide to do.

[ILUV72RRs]

For the record. It was on ebay last week. Opening bid was $2500 - no bids. Basically what you're getting is pretty much a shell. I asked a couple of Mopar car restorers out here in so. California their opinion. Don't want to rain on anyone's parade. But the majority of them said the most they'd pay for a car like that is $300 to $500 tops. As they figured by the time you're done bringing it back to life. You could buy a decent one for the same price. Here's the part that will make you cry. The reason the car wound up in the wrecking yard is that it spun a bearing in the late '70s. The car had never been in an accident. Someone must of done a repair job on their car, and cut the whole back of the car off. I hope it was one heck of a car they were saving. As I would of rescued this car out of the yard, and junked the wrecked car.

[72Satellite440]

I thought u meant just the rear end was gone, not the rear of the car : p

72Satellite440

[BigBlock]

I helped the previous owner of my car aquire one here in NC in the early 2000's. No front end except for the frame. It had all the glass and decent shell hull. He bought it for the roof, which is now the roof of my car. The old one looked like a starry night if you looked up...lol, but enough of the tangent...I remember he paid around 1k for it. (It had both doors) Your're right, it is sad to see them get scrapped. Wonder what that guy did with the car since it didn't sell? Where is he located?

[ILUV72RRs]

I get the impression that the owner might have a wrecking yard. Or buys cars out of the yards to re-sell. It's supposibly someplace an hour outside of Sacramento, CA. He claims to have sold tags and VINS off of cars in the past. The owner doesn't consider that to be any big deal. Considering that our Mopars don't have full frames. You could sort of look at it that you rebuilt the whole car starting with just the dash frame. Yes, I know. Considered sort of a sin. He was also offering another '71 Satellite body with it, and a later '72 440 engine which needs to be rebuilt with it. But the Satellite's body didn't look that great in the picture, and you have to dig it out of the tall grass field. If you know a car looks iffy in a photograph. Chance are it's in worse shape when you see it in person. Plus you'd have to move two vehicles, and the engine. The 60% RR/GTX (if you can call it that) which doesn't roll, and the Satellite body.

[Eric]

The owner of that ebay car posted a link to the auction here on this site (this was their one and only post). I deleted it, because in my opinion the ad pretty clearly suggested the car be rebodied. Some cars are better left to die...

[ILUV72RRs]

If the car had been taken apart the right way. Meaning drilling the welds where the two pieces come together in back of the bucket seats. As opposed to torching it hap hazzard, including part of the 4-speed shifter tunnel. I would of given it more thought. But since that area was all messed up. It sort of turned me off to the car. As it is now. You'd wind up with a car that definitely was less than 60% of what it was originally. As you'd have no choice but to put a new roof on the car to do it right. But considering what all they replaced on that TV show chop shop '69 Charger Hemi car. There's not much left of that one either that you could say was original.

[72V21V25]

I just purchased a 72 rr/gtx with only 24K orig miles in amazing condition for 18,200....not and air grabber but its all numbers matching 440 with a bucket seat console 4 speed....I WOULD PASS ON THAT CAR AND LOOK FOR SOMETHING THAT IS LESS OF A MAJOR PROJECT...

[DixieSatellite]

I just purchased a 72 rr/gtx with only 24K orig miles in amazing condition for 18,200....not and air grabber but its all numbers matching 440 with a bucket seat console 4 speed....I WOULD PASS ON THAT CAR AND LOOK FOR SOMETHING THAT IS LESS OF A MAJOR PROJECT...

Agreed. Considering what you would have to end up spending to resurrect that car, buying a going concern is much better prospect, even if you have to pay a little more up front. If you want a project, no problem - all cars of this vintage will need work of some kind. If you have a realistic understanding of your budget and abilities, your RR/Sat/GTX is much more within reach than you think......

Just my 2c, of course.

Ian B.

[72Satellite440]

seems to me you loose somthing just buying a finished product- just seems cheapening the whole thing a bit :p

72Satellite440

[moparmike]

That car is worth at least $1000 to those individuals that would take a 72 Satellite and change the dash etc and try and sell it as an original RR. You are better off getting a car with a solid platform and go from there and if you do not think these cars are not out there your wrong I purchased a 72 SSP 3 years ago which is as solid as you can get and it did not cost a fortune and better yet check out the 71 GTX I found in a parking garage recently and purchased it for very little.

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