Thread: Where to find the value of a Street Rod

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I use a lot of spread sheets. I'm not real good at making them trick but I can usually get the info out that I want. Remember bad in bad out however. They are very cold and brutal and don't care an iota for your feelings. LOL
I start with a list of must have, maybe have, desired, extras ets. It usually expands as I develope the sheet.

For example say you are looking for a 57 chev

make a list of needs...350 350 hp 4sp or auto 350 turbo or 700r4. You will have to do research on the cost of these items as noted by Bob above. Add a condition value good, excellent, needs resto etc. You can set the totals and determine what you want to spend and what you want to do your self.

Next enter a number of candidate cars that you find for sale. Plug in the traits of each and a little math and you can see where you stand on each car.

Gross simplification but what you are trying to do is educate youself as to what the car is worth to you versus what is being asked for it on the market versus what it might cost to build or modify.

Many cars have a large amount of labor at hotrod shops. Some shops with good reputations this can carry some weight others..well you will have to be the judge. Just because it has House of Kolor paint doesn't mean it is a 10k paint job if Joe Mudd used 35 pounds of bondo..most of it still showing. Get what I mean.

I've probably made 50 spread sheets for my current project and every one of them has wound up being used for firestarter. I have gained a pretty good foundation of what items are worth because of the research. If you may sell the car at some time later, you may find that some items are necessary to make the sale others are not. Both cases you may of may not want these items. Again you are in control.

A lot of factors establish value for custom cars. As noted the value is in the "seeing".

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