We run Rocket Restorations in Olympia, Washington. Specialize in restoring old Mopars and are always finding cool projects to fix up, old dealer signs along with NOS and used parts.
We live and breath Mopars here whether it is a barn find we save or doing a complete OE restoration on a 1969 Dodge Daytona.
Always looking for vintage dealer signs and neat project cars let us know if you have anything for sale!
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Top 5 classic Mopars you can still afford to buy and drive. Bonus if 4 of the 5 are not A bodies. AMC and Jeed would also be acceptable. Top 5 mods to make your classic Mopar a better daily driver. Side note: I really want to replace my winter beater Imprezza with an AMC Eagle.
YOu made me sad a bit about the '71 Challenger tail panel. Every one I've seen at a swap meet has been in two pieces, usually broken apart rather than cleanly separated. Mine is well weathered but complete, but unless a nice shiny complete one shows up at a swap meet I'm going to have to refurb it. Looking forward to the most expensive/best value video... when I started buying still available parts from the dealer back in the early '80s maybe I managed to win a little lottery ticket (probably not though) ;)
Every shop & parts store should have a Jamie. :)
"If you dont have a Jamie" LOL
Nothing wrong with a humble brag at all.
I've found that 1 year only, really drives up the price. My '57 D100, is basically unchanged from previous models. But the front clip is '57 specific. Decent front trim and headlight buckets hard to find. I've had this truck since the early 80's, and Ive been told the wrap around rear window is hard to replace. "80 Powerwagon grill. Quad headlights. Mine has a bad crease on the drivers side. And snap on buttons for an old style weather front. I picked up a '76-'78 in very good condition for a $100. Quad headlamp they want $800 or more.
So, for people who want to run points, are NOS point sets or even aftermarket point sets made many years ago worth much?
If ya don’t have a Jamie…. Lmao great vid Tom.
Rocket Resto binge watch engage.
The mad money shows up for these auctions.But i understand that most folks dont have the time or talent to build their own and are more than happy to purchase a "turn-key" classic car.
Cool video , not asking price but how rare is 72 440ci w/ 6-barrel complete ?
Everything is over priced
The long ram has the "sexy induction"tax lol.
You have a great Dofge!
That is pretty crazy. Seems like a bit much, but you have to ask yourself, how many of these cars survived out there with this kind of mileage? There can't be that many, if any others at all, especially in this original condition.
Low mile cars have been getting pretty good money.
Very cool.A thousand bucks.Gee whiz.
Was a heck of a deal. The more I drive the truck the better I like it, been doing a bunch of work to it to get it to daily driver territory.
Good rant! I was drawn to that episode because it was about an early Barracuda and was totaly shocked when they broke the window (not) the two most common comments I get when I,m out with my 66 are about the value of the back window and if it has the optional hemi. When I took my car apart to restore I was amazed at the weight of that window.
It’s a heavy duty unit
Those windows and chrome pieces look like they would fit my C-body 1968 Plymouth Fury 3?
Well, at least it still has the tail light assembly.So that way, you can't look all the way through the grill clear through to the rear end. Odd it still has the rear light assembly
Car was mostly parted, weird what they didn’t take.
I hear those rear windows are selling for 2,000$.
😡😡😡
did u sell the 46?
Yes it sold
I know you're a Mopar guy. But would you say this rear window in the 64 to 66 Barracuda is tied for the largest rear window with the 1971 through 1973 Buick Riviera boat tail. People were trying to say the rear windows on the Buick Riviera's from 71 to 73 were expensive too
It was the biggest window made in a production car at the time, not sure if the rig window was bigger or not.
Great review you are spot on with your info .I owned a 71 exISP Mercury Monterey 429PI my vav car of all time crazy fast I really loved it
Love old police cars!
Mount your electronic ignition box on the firewall, it’s going to get too hot where it is currently mounted. Nice car.
Have literally sold hundreds of those ECU brackets and never had a problem.
I hope you sell vs scrap. I'd buy one but I am on East Coast
Hope so too but I don’t like leaving $1,000 on the table of selling vs parting.
Do you feel better now.
The minute someone calls someone that might have and sense the desperation they will jack the price up. Then again how many of these are left that people are willing to restore?
I've got a '66 Barracuda Formula S and have not one, not two, but three spare rear windows and I don't believe you, Tom. I know I'm sitting on a goldmine in the corner of the garage......... Just a matter of time, mark my words. 50, 100 years from now my great, great grandkids will cash in. On a serious note, two windows came with the car, the third window came from a new neighbor who had one in his back yard (came with the house) and he gave it to me. Yes, gave. Apparently he didn't know the goldmine he was sitting on.
You can retire today!
Reality shows have producers and directors listed in the credits.
Wait - is a show supposed to have more than one guy behind a camera?
It is realiTV NOT realiTY.
When my gruncle died they crushed everything behind the dealership, including a 53 Plymouth my grandfather had been storing there. There was a D-500 in that yard. 🤬
That’s a shame
I saw that junk yard episode where the two idiots put the Barracuda back window on a couple metal welding horses and then bumped it.... down it came shattered. They found another in another junkyard and the guy wanted $5000 for the whole car and wouldn't just sell the window. And, he kept threatening to smash it. Later I looked on epay and there were several for around $300.
Reason that show only lasted a year.
@@rocketresto yep
When they do break they explode like a 12 gauge shotgun shell. I side hit a telephone pole right in front of the rear wheel doing 30-40 ish and the window blew into little squares that they spent a while at the emergency room picking some of the pieces out of my back that went through my tee shirt. Nothing to serious just broke the skin but I have never forgot that one.
Yikes - ya when those tempered windows go it's a mess.
TV is dumb.
I love that show for the cars the walk through the junkyard❤ That was my childhood😊 that episode it was stage you could tell especially when the new guy was the one that caused the breakage Of the window so he had to prove himself by Coming through with this very expensive window I wasn't gullible Again I've been around 😂😂😂😂😂 I watch Adam 12 for the vintage cars❤
Love going through a good wrecking yard, just not many left.
RARE ….. used way too much!
Super overused.
I remember that show and they bought another window from another scrap yard. I have a '60 Fury and I can tell you the rear window is not exactly available. I bought a new windshield for it, $750.00 delivered. And yes the shows have ruined it for all of us. Also Barret/Jackson. Folks think their what evers are a fortune. Duh.
Yes those Forward Look windows are not easy to find unlike 64-66 Cuda windows.
HAHAHA!! I watched that show! 😂😂😂😂 And yes, there is no way they would EVER set that "rare glass" on a sawhorse. 🤦🤦 I am not a fan of that body style of Barracuda because I don't like the back glass. But that is my take on it (the same reason why I don't like those 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupes). 😊😊
It's a big greenhouse
100% dead on 👍🏻 All those reality ‘Discovery’ style shows STUUUNK!
I like a few but yes most of those "Discovery" shows are just terrible.
People think LA 318s are worth something also...😁
Amd is going to put you on there Christmas card list but yeah you can save it
Hopefully it’s a good discount.
my friend brought one for 150.00 in Canada
That's about right.
Swapped a Rover sd1 for a yellow one with black stripes, Mopar v8, small one,,
happened on boyd coddingtons stupid show as well and they was before this show you mentioned and boyd's show said it was a 2500 windshield
No new ideas.
Is this car really that far past bringing back to life? Like they always say “they aren’t making them anymore”. Some people will put double what the car is worth because they want that particular model really badly.
It's definitely savable but at a certain point when I can get $2k for it in parts or $500 as a whole car it's going to get parted.
I watched that episode and thought what??? And I live in Australia where they won’t sold here. total bullshit staged show
Ya it was not good.
I saw that episode! TOTALLY STAGED!
Some shows are better about hiding the script than others. Desert Car Kings was one of the worse offenders.
I remember watching that episode, and i guess i only watched because it was about a MOPAR, but I really despised that show!
Ya I caught it years ago because Cuda! but then actually watched it and yuck.
Tv is horseshit. Reality TV is a cancer on low IQ types. NOTHING reality about 'reality' tv. Unfortunately, many people base their concept of the world in general by what crap they see on tv. Classic cars as a hobby have been utterly ruined by this type of made up nonsense. I Have a '69 barracuda and I currently have 3 back windows because I've always been led to believe how rare they are. (luckily I got 2 of em for basically nothing.) "we're going to lose the shop if we don't get this done!" = fake, manufactured drama because building cars is actually pretty damn boring. You are right bud. It's all bunk for dramatic effect. BUT it has influenced in a bad way the real car market. The absolute worst culprits in the past were gas monkey and counting cars. Or those shows where they spray dust and wood chips over a nice car and pretend to find it like that 'lost in a barn for 50 years' with strangely fully inflated 6 month old tires on it and a charged battery. this type of thinking is why a rusted out husk in a field with trees growing through the floors is 15 grand now. so stupid. good on you for calling it like it is. cheers.
Ok ok ok, maybe you’re right. However, I’ve heard that the runner moulding around that glass - priceless! 🙃
The molding below the glass does go for a lot - but only if it’s super nice.
Bit of a shame really they look ok dont know why they are not sort after shipping kills any purchase these days especially to here in nz
Shipping is not cheap.