musclecar recently sold at $2.16 mil - guess what color? =)

[P49Y-CY]

yup that's right, this car, a 1970 hemicuda convertible, 1 of 14 made, and the only one made that year in the very desirable "vitamin c orange" color.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/events/scottsdale/vehicles/cardetail_list.asp?id=183447

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/salesresults.asp

i am not 100% sure but i think that is one of if not the highest price paid for a domestic musclecar at auction :mick:

[Blck_98_STANG]

One sweet car. I read on another site that the HEMI Cuda was the most valuable muscle car at this time.

[88GT]

Could have sold for more if it was yellow. :woot: Just kidding.
Pretty rare color there.

[FoxracerMenace]

Pretty nice cuda!

[MarcInJapan]

Very nice! :)

[P49Y-CY]

Could have sold for more if it was yellow. :woot: Just kidding.
Pretty rare color there.

could be! that would be the nash bridges car lol :blkvnm:

supposedly in that show don johnson drove a 1970 hemicuda convertible, bright yellow (i think that yellow was called top banana or lemon twist?)

mopar had some real high impact colors with wild names available back then, including panther pink, plum crazy, go mango, sassy grass, and sub-lime :gt4her:

[MarcInJapan]

Correct me if I am wrong because I am going off my memory of 20 years back. My buddy drove a Cuda, looked "sky" blue, convertible. I don't know if that was a valuable car back then, but I bet it is now.

[88GT]

Correct me if I am wrong because I am going off my memory of 20 years back. My buddy drove a Cuda, looked "sky" blue, convertible. I don't know if that was a valuable car back then, but I bet it is now.
I could be wrong here Marc, but it seems to me, that cars that old seem to retain better value if you stay with the origional color, regardless of what it was. But yes, back in the day, all the bright solid colors on muscle cars were really getting popular. The reds, greens and yellows. I had a jeep...the one I preppy much thrashed on a regular basis actually, was plum purple when I bought it. That color said woman driver all over it. :rotfl: That had to go with a quick stroke of Krylon. :lmao:

[MarcInJapan]

This blue was original. But, I can't remember the year of the cadu vert. I am sure it is worth some change now.

[txlen]

last i heard the purple convertible cuda sold for a bit over 3 mil last year...some guy in arizona bought it and now owns 3 of them so far...and a few other top notch musclecars..

[cracker]

last i heard the purple convertible cuda sold for a bit over 3 mil last year...some guy in arizona bought it and now owns 3 of them so far...and a few other top notch musclecars..


They did an article on him in Hot Rod Magazine. I still wish i could eventually afford a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, stupid high prices :mad:

[phatpharmacist]

Dang that is a lot of $$$$!

I think these kind of old muscle cars are the new 401k plan. :shane: