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Originally Posted by SmokingSS
if you want the best price, get a stock hood back on it. with being the last year of the 3rd gens and if there were only 3k or so made, having mostly original parts is better than and aftermarket hood.
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yeah, but he doesn't have the stock hood or the blisters, so he'd be chasing what is a prized possession: a '92 stock hood with the blisters. almost no one would give it up, and if you did find someone parting out a car, or whatever, expect to pay through the nose for it.
hindsight is always 20/20, but looking back it's still a bit fuzzy... should have kept the stock hood (your cousin, presumably) to sell with the car and the modifications made.
while i will be extensively modding the '87, i still have the stock pieces and nothing will get modified that can't be returned to stock. you never know, in 20 years someone might be willing to second mortgage their house for a stock '87 camaro.
as it sits, i'd say you could get 2800. there is a paint job in the next owner's future, and that stuff doesn't come cheaply (probably why your hood remains unpainted). so figure 3k in paint to paint the hood and blend in the fenders and nose. its value would increase, but not by so much that you could justify painting it to sell it. you'd be throwing away a coupla hundred to increase the value of the car - not worth it, in my eyes. also, with the miles where they are, the top end could probably use some refreshing. nice stealth ram, would increase the red line by a few hundred RPMs. still, if you did it yourself, you'd never recoup what you put in it.
a car is only worth modifying if you are going to keep it.