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Originally Posted by GWN7

I did a quick look to see what it was worth and it appears ones with nice shinny paint go for between $40,000 and $50,000.

As to the value of these cars because of it's age those last years (the third generation 1973-1977) were never much in demand. Big, heavy and low HP (this one is 245 hp). Start of smog equipment. If anything happened to them they were crushed because there was no demand. Because of all that there are probably not a lot of them around and are becoming more collectable. It's so ugly it's beautiful.

As the car was his mom's car and they (his family) have owned it since new there is very small chance that he will ever sell it. He doesn't need the money.

It's just old enough to still be interesting even if, like I said previously, it's not the coolest or most desirable. There were a handful of cars that were still interesting up until the mid 70s even if they had much less power by that time. I would think that in many/most places, those cars (at least pre-74 or pre-75 when catalytic converters were on all cars) are now old enough that they could have free flowing intakes and exhausts and "smog-free" carbs and maybe a mild cam update added and be much more fun and peppy. I wish I had time, money and space to find something old and interesting.