I have seen this car for years sitting in a barn. The other day i saw the guy outside and asked if he would sell it. He said it was his brothers who passed away last year. He was the original owner. he said he would take $4500. Its a red 1969 sport satellite with a black sim top w/78k original miles red bucket seats & auto on the floor. The interior looks great and is complete. The body is pretty solid with a few rust bubbles in the doors and rear quarter. Looks like passenger floor pan needs replaced. I think it has the 318 or 383 he wasnt sure. The car looks untouched and all the guages and accesories still work. The engine bay looks bone stock & original as well. I dont know much about these and have been thinking about it non stop for the last 2 days. I know the satellite is low buck compaired to the roadrunners even though they are the same body. I dont really need another car, but if its a good enough deal why not? anyone here know about these cars? Help.
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RobsIron
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I would buy any 1969 vehicle from a original owner for $4500..especially a Mopar.
I'll take it if you don't.
I'll take it if you don't.
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If its a 383 car buy it.
Easiest way to ID the engine is the location of the distributor. In the front means it's most likely a 383. In rear would be a small block (318). In either case: 4500 if it's a solid car is still a good deal, even better if it does have the 383.
I stopped back out today. the car was in the barn, but no one was around. I got the vin# and it is a 383 in the car. I took a closer look and could see some major fiberglass rust repair in the rear quarters and rockers. So it looks like it had a repaint at some point and not sure the extent of the rust issues.
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You can find Fake.....urr cloned Road Runners selling for BIG coin in just about any national muscle car 'wheeler dealer' type mags nowadays. $4500 for a decent Sport Satellight is CHEAP. Can't buy a decent used anything for that. Seen a 440-6 Challenger "tribute car" not long ago for an almost $75k asking price. Was originally a 318 car!! Gotta love outright FAKES becoming soooo valuable.
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If anybody thinks that restoration or restorodding a turbobrick is pricey, just wait till they compare Mopar restorations, either buying or DIY. Mopars are seriously expensive to restore / rebuild. I will stick with turbobricks, and I am an ex-mopar man.
Recovering Mopar guy here too. Those cars were known for rusting in the rear...I mean quarters, trunk floor, rockers, frame rails, floor boards...High sulpher in the metal and poor water drainage. Buy it and re-sell for a profit or keep it and marry it. 383 with buckets and console should be a big plus for re-sale.
That may be cheap up in the rust belt, but not down here. I know where one is for $2500 right now.
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Hey....wadda ya mean 'rust belt'....
Yea, it's pretty hard to find a rust free anything here after they been on the roads for any length of time. And we won't even talk about 20+ years old Turbo Buicks either!!
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Yea, it's pretty hard to find a rust free anything here after they been on the roads for any length of time. And we won't even talk about 20+ years old Turbo Buicks either!! Ken B.
I ended up passing on the satellite, but today I was on ebay and see someone else must have bought it. They have it listed on ebay with a starting price of 10k (no bids of course). The owner was asking $4500 when i looked at it. eBay Motors: Plymouth : Satellite (item 180309445988 end time Dec-02-08 21:59:00 PST)
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100% agree with you here Gary!
I sold my Mopar projects (1970 Challenger RT/SE 383/Pistol Grip 4 speed, Plum Crazy Purple, and 1971 Road Runner 340/auto with a 416" stroker SB motor) a couple of months ago and bought my Grand National.
Grand Nationals are downright CHEAP to restore compared to Mopar muscle cars. A good friend of mine has restored a few concourse Corvettes and commented on how much more expensive it was to restore his 1971 Challenger 340/4 speed convertible than it was for his 1966 427 Stingray coupe.
As an example, I purchased reproduction F&R seatcovers w/ foam buns for the Challenger a couple years ago from Legendary Interiors. The Chally originally came with the rare salt & pepper cloth and vinyl interior; These seat covers w/buns cost me $1000!
Always a Mopar guy at heart, But I am deeply in-lust with my GN!
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I sold my Mopar projects (1970 Challenger RT/SE 383/Pistol Grip 4 speed, Plum Crazy Purple, and 1971 Road Runner 340/auto with a 416" stroker SB motor) a couple of months ago and bought my Grand National.
Grand Nationals are downright CHEAP to restore compared to Mopar muscle cars. A good friend of mine has restored a few concourse Corvettes and commented on how much more expensive it was to restore his 1971 Challenger 340/4 speed convertible than it was for his 1966 427 Stingray coupe.
As an example, I purchased reproduction F&R seatcovers w/ foam buns for the Challenger a couple years ago from Legendary Interiors. The Chally originally came with the rare salt & pepper cloth and vinyl interior; These seat covers w/buns cost me $1000!
Always a Mopar guy at heart, But I am deeply in-lust with my GN!
John
I sold all of my mopars because I didn't like driving them, with the buckboard ride, the overboosted steering and creaky unibodies.
Sure I could dump $20K in mods into them and make them handle and drive almost modern, but I'll let someone else do that.
Mopars are great if you want a car you are going to park and look at but not so great if you are going to drive it.
I got into mopars because the were cheaper and cooler than Camaros and Mustangs and you could buy one for 1/2 what a modern performance car cost at the time.
I got out when they were more expensive than the best modern performance cars, because that doesn't make any sense to me. Given a choice, I always go for the best car, regardless of make, because when it comes down to it, a car is first and foremost, a car.
Somebody else can pay full sentimental value for a car.
$4500 isn't a bad price for that car to turn it into a stock appearing stroker motor sleeper. I count at least $15K to restore it to something that looks 1/2 way decent if you do most of the work yourself and then you have a cool, if not desirable, B-body for less than $20K.
Any more than that and there's a lot better cars to be "investing" $20K in. $30K or $40K would be complete nuts.
Sure I could dump $20K in mods into them and make them handle and drive almost modern, but I'll let someone else do that.
Mopars are great if you want a car you are going to park and look at but not so great if you are going to drive it.
I got into mopars because the were cheaper and cooler than Camaros and Mustangs and you could buy one for 1/2 what a modern performance car cost at the time.
I got out when they were more expensive than the best modern performance cars, because that doesn't make any sense to me. Given a choice, I always go for the best car, regardless of make, because when it comes down to it, a car is first and foremost, a car.
Somebody else can pay full sentimental value for a car.
$4500 isn't a bad price for that car to turn it into a stock appearing stroker motor sleeper. I count at least $15K to restore it to something that looks 1/2 way decent if you do most of the work yourself and then you have a cool, if not desirable, B-body for less than $20K.
Any more than that and there's a lot better cars to be "investing" $20K in. $30K or $40K would be complete nuts.
Funny you say that....you know how the 426 Hemi was touted as a "bad ass engine".....yet I've heard some say those engines are pure pigs.
I never have owned a Mopar product but I wouldn't mind. Give me a 68-69 Charger, or a 68-69 Dart or a 71-72 GTX, or even an early 70's Duster....I'd like to have.
Heck for that matter I'd even like to have a 73-74 Satellite/Road Runner.
The car had alot of bondo packed in the rear quarters and the front floor pans were shot. It had a low end repaint, and I wasnt sure how bad the body really was under it. I also watched alot of satellites sell on ebay dirt cheap. I seen a couple nicley restored 69 satellites that couldnt bring 10k. I figured I would hold out for a road runner or charger. I would rather spend the money restoring a 68-69 road runner or 68-70 charger. The thing that I liked about this car was it was it had the 383 and a very nice complete interior.
One of my daily drivers in the 1980's was a '71 340 'Cuda convertible. I stopped driving it when I bought an '86 Mustang GT convertible, that was so much better in every respect of car performance, it isn't even funny, and the '86 was the lowest HP modern mustang with real EFI.
People paying big bucks for stock mopars have either never driven one or don't intent to drive them much. You can modify them to be fast and handle acceptably, but then they aren't "stock" and purist frown on you.
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