So I said not worth the $9K , TVMASTER asked what I thought the cost should be, and Pete W. said it probably is worth $9K since it's in CA. For whatever they are worth to the conversation, here are my thoughts.
I made the mistake of not seeing the good seats underneath the covers. That is something I missed. Of course, I'm no expert, and this is arm chair "Wayne Carini-ing."
If the seats were bad, I would have thought the car was worth about $7500. Good seats add $800 to $1000. So $8500 vs $9000, I would not argue that on value. I base that on my routine surveys on SearchTempest. If you have not tried SearchTempest before, you should give it a try. It looks at all the CLs across the country, plus ebay and cars.com. Not that many '74s but over the past year, I saw 2 in about the same shape as the WD car with bad seats and they were $7500. One was a green car in Las Vegas, the other a yellow car in PA that had the 15 inch Vick's wheels. Both were on CL for many weeks.
Pete's point is good. The '74 would be smog exempt and that has real value in CA.
Maybe the better way to think of the price is asking "would I be upside down value wise in the car for $9K?" I think the answer to that is no. If you spent the $9K and did the carpet, paint and other items, could you get you money out of it.
So if anyone is considering buying the WD car, I would say go ahead. It's more money than I would want to pay, but in no way would you be getting ripped off.
BTW, there is a really pretty blue '81 dressed as a '74 for $8900 in Goochland VA.
36,000 miles no rust, too much new to list owned for 15 years
richmond.craigslist.org
in case someone is looking.