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I posted the other day about my clutch pedal and I'm doin a ton of work on my 78 f250. Pulled the marti report and it's 1 of 14 with the paint/trim codes... factory brown with a tan top and a stripe package. Now it's blue. I don't have the time, money or patience to restore it back to 100% oem factory, nor do I think that a 1 of 14 truck that was brown with a tan top is worth barret jackson prices. Am I wrong? Does rarity equal big dollar signs with these trucks even though it's a plain Jane truck and not a freewheeler or a 1776 edition?
or is it just another truck. An oddball in its brown 400/4spd stripe package glory ruined by blue spray paint?
In my opinion it is just another truck. I love these trucks but they are just trucks. I say this as I poor more money down the drain daily on mine. Now from a family story it is priceless. That’s in my opinion the value of these trucks to people. It is the story’s they remind us of when we were younger with Dad or Grandpa.
Rarity can add big money on big money vehicles but not on rigs like this. though it wouldn't be correct to say rarity adds no value it's just a case of how rare and does anyone care.
I big time Mopar collector once said , " there's rare and there's desirable and they don't equate to the same thing "
Rarity+someone wanting it=value. I don't see random paint combos on common trucks valuable for now. But that could change in the future if old pickups become the next hot thing, after '60s muscle cars and '90s Japanese sports cars. So I probably wouldn't sweat the details now but it also wouldn't be a truck I'd be eager to hack all out of recognition.
I see a few posts where owners get their Marti Report and find that they have an unusual combination of options making it a rare truck. But like others have said, it still has to be something desirable. You touched on an original colour combination that isn't for everybody--brown with a tan top. I am a big fan of a well optioned truck (Think XLT or Lariat) with a 460 auto A/C and in a popular colour. It probably isn't a rare truck by the Marti Report numbers but is kind of hard to find today. In my opinion that has more value than a "rare truck" that might have a 351M 3-speed manual, custom cab in an unusual colour.
Do the marti reports have which two tone option was selected, or just that there was two letters for the paint code?
I don’t see the way they break down the combination of options make it add any value. suckers are born every minute.
Something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. If you have a ten pound block of gold and nobody is willing to give you more than $5.00 for it, then that's what it's worth, $5.00.
Rare doesn't equal valuable. Quite often something is rare because no one wants it so none were saved!
That's actually a nice looking truck though.
Do the marti reports have which two tone option was selected, or just that there was two letters for the paint code?
I believe it lists which one the truck had. In the options list it should say either "standard", "deluxe" or, "standard and deluxe" tutone paint. (I think that's how it's listed).
We had a 1968 Plymouth Satelite Sport Wagon, medium blue where it didn't have wood grain, 383, 4bbl, duals, 11x3"" front power drum brakes, HD suspension, trailer tow pac, just AM radio, AC, and Dad even ordered the factory in dash tachometer that was to the right of the speedometer where a clock often was found. What it would be worth is what it's worth just because year and model but I'm sure was a very rare optioned car.
It is supply and demand or at least the perception of it. If supply is low and demand is high, a higher price can successfully be demanded. So rare alone is not enough. Marketing purports to be capable of influencing demand so that factor could be somewhat manipulable. It is a little harder but supply can also be manipulated as well by engineering artificial scarcity such as has long been done in the diamond industry.
Sometimes rare is because no one wanted it originally, either. Generally high-performance models which are produced for the rare rich few who can both afford them and afford them are the ones that rarity confers higher value on, but a model that sold a half-million versions and you have one of the three painted chartreuse and electric blue... well, it's a nice talking point and hopefully you would find a buyer who liked green/blue yuck. Otherwise... paint it what you want and enjoy it.
Simply, not necessarily. Rarity does not equate to desirability (value). If nobody wants the rare thing, then it is worthless or worth no more than a not rare version of itself.
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