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I respectfully have to disagree with your theory. I bought my '69 BM Corvette in 1972 for $3,200 and two years later in 1974 I bought my '70 with only 9k mi on it for $3,700. The '70 was from a used car dealer in Dallas that is still in business (Ronnie Diamond Mtr co.) and he really didn't know what it was. He just wanted it out of his sight. He had spent too much on it putting a new LS-6 in it after financing the car for some dude that kept tearing something up till he finally blew it up trying to drive it in Dallas traffic with a small flex fan. That was the most expensive Motion vette according to Joel when I was talking to him at SCR-6.

I well remember that you had to pay $2,200 over sticker for a new Pinto back then and you were lucky if you could even find one for sale. The dealers would add all kinds of extras to jack the price up over sticker because they could sell every one they could get and then some. you could not give away a big block muscle car like a BB camaro. Most lost there original motors back then due to the gas crunch. The value of them was almost nil. You had to be a die hard car lover to own one then.


I have records where I bought a many a '69 Z-28 for $2,000 or less. I gave $1,400 for a real Shelby 500 that was painted green metalflake.

The market nowadays is totally different from what it was back in the good old days. I only wish I had hung on to more of the old cars from back then. I would not have to worry about retirement now.

I was a used car dealer back then and when someone was ready to shed a old hot rod they had to take what someone would give.

You may not have lived through the oil embargo of the early '70's as I did. I was lucky I had a skelly service station in 1971 through '73, so I was in the catbird seat there. The only reason I did was to sell used cars off the front of it. Then in late '73 the car lot I bought out was about to go under because they had nothing but Vetts & muscle cars and couldn't sell anything unless it was way too cheap.

My '69 came up to the gas pumps one day and I recognized what it was and called the dealer up and bought it from him the next day. he knew what a Motion car was but back then they were not very well known. Heck even today very few people in the real world even know what one is. I was trying to buy a C5 vette from a used Corvette dealer here in town and he had a lot full of vettes and had no clue what a Motion vette was.

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