What's a '78 LTD II worth?

In reply to Rob_Mopar:

It's a 302, so nothing special at all. I agree about the price, but I'm not even sure it would fetch $3k because of the color. Almost any other color offered would have been better then this putrid pale yellow.

The Dodge is just a mid-90's Ram.

ZOO wrote: I am starting to develop a perverse affinity for mid to late 70s American iron. They were so magnificently awful aesthetically. I truly wonder if there was some sort of competition to see who could design the worst looking car. So ugly, that I kind of want one. Kind of like being attracted to Lena Dunham.

You know she doesn't drive right? She thinks its too hard. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/lena-dunham-scared-to-drive_n_2727514.html

How cute is she now?

My sister doesn't drive either. I wish more people would realize they don't belong behind the wheel in city traffic. Describing her fear as being "afraid of Rebecca Gayhearting a child." makes her a bit cuter but then I'm pretty warped.

In reply to Rob_Mopar:

Idk, I had the unfortunate pleasure of driving an early 80's Chrysler 300......it made me think Chrysler didn't deserve to have the k-car save it.

That said, I like my sho's, and while that is probably questionable by peoples preferences here, but jeebus, even I have standards.

That said, since the Chrysler imperial is banned from demolition derby, wouldn't these make mighty fine competitors?

Oh, and should add that the two reasons she wants to sell it to me is she's afraid someone will either run it in a demo derby, or put dubs and a system in it.

Fifteen hundred bucks and subdivide into section 8 apartments?

In reply to TRoglodyte:

Ooh, I could rent out the back seat like a sleazy motel room!

...as long as I didn't have cheaufer anyone around.

yamaha wrote: In reply to Rob_Mopar: Idk, I had the unfortunate pleasure of driving an early 80's Chrysler 300......it made me think Chrysler didn't deserve to have the k-car save it. That said, I like my sho's, and while that is probably questionable by peoples preferences here, but jeebus, even I have standards. That said, since the Chrysler imperial is banned from demolition derby, wouldn't these make mighty fine competitors?

I worked with a guy that had an early SHO new. Drive it once. It was nice when everything worked. The last couple years he had it I swear it was on the back of a tow truck almost every other time he drove it. So yea your standards might be a little off.

I had an '83 Mirada. It wasn't exactly the high point of Chrysler's engineering either. But it was OK for what it was. You need to remember what the domestic auto industry was like in the late '70's & early '80's. In the '70's as performance went away with early emissions controls and high insurance rates for performance cars people switch to "personal luxury" cars like that LTD II.

Not much is saved from that era. Not much to get enthusiastic about short of some Trans Ams and GM A/G bodies starting in '78. But those A & G's aren't appreciated for their stock form, just the potential of what can be done with them.

Cars like this LTD II should be saved. Low miles, garage kept, and survived the last 3 and a half decades. It deserves to continue existing in a similar manner. It's still a part of US automotive history. Not all points on a timeline are high points.

You know, if the price is right I could get it, detail it, and bring it to the challenge as-is. I might be able to obtain the slowest car to finish the event.

Could try listing it for sale with the Antique Automobile Club of America. Somebody there might be interested.

In reply to Rob_Mopar:

I can agree with that, and while there were a few cool things then, I'm thankful I wasn't around back then

FWIW, the year I drove that 300, it was eclipsed on the POS scale by a non-running delorean that smelled like it had sat in a pig barn, and also looked like someone had taken scotchbrite pads on a buffer to the outside

yamaha wrote: In reply to Rob_Mopar: I can agree with that, and while there were a few cool things then, I'm thankful I wasn't around back then FWIW, the year I drove that 300, it was eclipsed on the POS scale by a non-running delorean that smelled like it had sat in a pig barn, and also looked like someone had taken scotchbrite pads on a buffer to the outside

I'd rather have the LTD II than any Delorean. As a true enthusiast, I am offended by the DMC 12. As a child of the 80's. I am offended by Back to the Future and the Delorean. I knew then that the likelihood of any DeLorean getting to 88 mph was slim in the space provided.

if the ones we see at auctions are any standard, there is always a 70% non-running due to fuel leak rate......

I kinda like the looks of them, but they aren't for me.......being stuck inside a non-running one, without a battery to roll the "windows" down, on a sunny 90+* day kind of gave me that opinion.

Grizz wrote: In reply to ZOO: Now I know something is wrong with me. I would destroy miss Dunham in the backseat of a late 70s Chrysler. Hell yeah.

I grew up in the 70s/80s, in NE PA, in the shadow of burning coal dumps driving a brown '70 Monte Carlo. I'd be a damn liar if I said I wouldn't have given her a ride home from the bowling alley late on a Friday night. A quart of 12 horse ale to keep the drys away and some Foghat pumping thru the booster... all good.

Rob_Mopar wrote: Cars like this LTD II should be saved. Low miles, garage kept, and survived the last 3 and a half decades. It deserves to continue existing in a similar manner. It's still a part of US automotive history. Not all points on a timeline are high points.

Well-put.

It would be a damn shame for a car that has been preserved for this long to be turned into a pile within a matter of a few years. It's nothing special, but I can't remember the last time I saw one around here.