1966 Plymouth Barracuda - How Far will it Sink?

Here's proof the classic car market is completely bonkers. While the 1972 Chrysler New Yorker I recently blogged about, that's in remarkable condition, has an asking price of just $5,000, this 1966 Plymouth Barracuda that's literally being swallowed up by Mother Earth has an asking price of $12,000. Say that slowly so it sinks in more like this car is sinking into the ground. Twelve-Thousand Dollars. Bonus, though, that price does include what appears to be a homemade hood scoop.

Several years ago and seemingly ions before The Pandemic, I found this 1970 Dodge Challenger around the corner from my home here on Cleveland's west side that was not only partially submerged in Cleveland muck but was  completed rotted out. I still get comments from people asking me if the car is still available. Remarkably, no. It is not. It was hauled out of the yard by someone who paid over $5,000 for it. With that in mind, this '66 Barracuda is quite the value seeing that it appears to be still in tact. 

Well, that car was a 1970 Dodge Challenger - one of the most sought after and valuable of all muscle cars meanwhile this thing here is all but a Plymouth Valiant with a funky rear window. Read more of about these cars here. 

Another bonus with this car, in addition to the hood scoop and floor pans looking remarkably intact, is that after market air conditioner under the passenger side of the dash board. I'd venture to guess it's a Sears unit not unlike the knee breaker I had in my 1974 Mercury Comet. Mine, of course, didn't work but it did blow air albeit as noisily as a freight train running through your backyard. Imagine trying to get that serviced. That clunker would be the first thing to go if I was doing the resto on this thing. That said, interior does look to be in pretty neat shape all things considered. 

If you've shopped for a used car recently you'd find used car lots are selling anything they can get their hands on and that means a lot of garbage; the used car market is molten hot because new cars are obscenely priced. The collector car market is running out of old bombs to restore so that's probably why this person thinks they're sitting on a pot-o'-gold. Geez, I'd have trouble forking over twentlve-grand for a Barracuda that was in decent shape. You'd also think if the owner was really serious about selling they'd at least pull it out of the ground. Which begs the question - I wonder how far down a car would sink?