Very good topic 103, I don’t know how I should vote cause I still have all the parts for both my cvo’s but am contemplating selling the original stuff.
When I was young (senior in high school) I purchased a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with a 440 magnum engine. Being young I modified the heck out of it, I had this car for 20 years and over the coarse of time it wound up a 9.90 et pro-gas car. There was a time it could have been returned to bone stock and I thought about that before chopping it going to fiberglass and tying it together with a roll cage but being young I would trade parts and sell parts for the funds. From the factory the car had an 8-track, hood scoops, hood pins, mags with raised white letter tires, Dana 60 rear, Black buckets with a counsel, a super bee stripe and the coolest thing is in the back corner windows it had these little bees with tires for back legs that look like they were spinning. Till this day I miss that car, and by the way it was red like my Fatboy.
The Harley’s resale value doesn’t seem to be worth keeping the parts to make it worth the while but getting back to my Challenger: they weren’t worth much either, look at the price of a bone stock red 70 R/T with a 440 now.
Puzzled……..Roy
I almost went there in my post. You couldn't have a better (worse) example than your Challenger for guys our age.
One of my best friends had a Judge, another a GT350 Mustang. These were new cars while we were in or just out of high school.
As a Porsche dealer, over the years people ask about keeping there Porsche as a collector. Similar to many of our bikes, Porsche makes to large a run of the cars to have them hold value in the short term. Many of them have a value greater than there original value if held 20 or 30 years, but it is only the RS, Speedster, 959, types that were built in very low numbers that are like that and they were very low volume cars.
Sure some of the standard stuff has a good value at 30 to 50 years, but they too are rare now as many sit in bone yards or are totally gone.
A lot of water goes under the bridge before the market comes around on value. I'd rather have all the memories of your pro gas R/T. Granted it would be great to still have the R/T, we know it wouldn't ever get sold though. So think of the good stuff and remember the good times that R/T delivered Roy.
Hell, if I hadn't sold my 74 Dino Ferrari in 1979 for $18,500 I could have sold it when Enzo died for around $250,000.00. Oh, but I wouldn't be a car dealer today either. The twists and turns of fate I guess.
Anyway, somebody will get my bike down the road when HD builds another that I like better or I get to where I can't get on it anymore, until then the mods keep comin' and the wheels keep rollin' [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]
Now, should I get out in the garage and eBay the stuff off my old bikes........nah, I'll just keep starin' at the boxes on the shelves.
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