What's a rebody worth?

I'll probably 'tick' someone off, but I'd say it's at the most 80% of the value of a comparable car that hasn't been re-bodied.

 

years ago these cars were looked at with scorn. in today's market, most of these cars have had a lot of metal replaced so they are practicly rebodied cars anyway!! I will not personally put a price on it as there are varying degrees of a "Rebody" but that being said, this should prove to be an interesting topic!!

 

Ah, "Concours correct"? How so? What Concours awards has it gotten, by whom?
But, yeah, I think it would be worth more than a clone, but, nowadays you'll have to look and document the original parts. Way more clones out there now than ever before. And a public that wouldn't know correct if it fell on their heads....

 

Does concours restoration matter anymore given the recent Barrett Jackson results?
If SAAC says a rebody is a Shelby, should that make a difference?
Rick

 

This is a subject I have thought about often! Those Camaro Yenko Clones bring stupid money, so what is a Shelby clone worth? I personaly feel no more than a quarter more than what the car would be worth uncloned and original. I don't think the Chevy clones are worth much more either. Now a rebodied car with all right parts etc, maybe even concours could not be worth half of what a real car is worth. Could it? Maybe it is worth buying to get the goodies off of it! It was mentioned that after all the work of replacing all the sheet metal that is hammered or rusty, is the car a rebody after all? I can see the point to this. But if the car is repaired correctly and is rebuilt Around those numbers. I think the car is still the car it was when it was built, regardless of the work it needed. I would much rather see a car rebuilt than the numbers moved to a solid body. I can see the temptation someone would have. Unfortunatly there are alot of faked cars out there and some poor guy paid retail for it! It will cost alot more to save that car the right way, but in the long run you will feel better about it. These are just my opinions and thoughts!

 

In February a 66 GT350H rebody sold for $75,100. It looked very nice. I don't know what percentage of a non-rebody price this is but it is more than most clones bring. Here is a link to that sale.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...satitle=4607742845&fvi=1&item=4607742845&rd=1

 

from what i remember the car didnt sell the first time or it did but buyer backed out same for the second time of course ite here say i dont know that for a fact i say save buying one ontil its t5he real deal you will be happy you did

 

I must confess that I don't understand the difference between a rebody and a clone. Both have a non-Shelby body and most if not all Shelby parts.
Replacing sheetmetal that was damaged by rust or in an accident
is, in my opinion okay as long as the serial numbers are intact.
Texas Swede

 

Back in the 1970's, you coulddn'y buy entirely everything to make a clone, so, you would have to buy a terribly rusted out ,or, wrecked Shelby to shift the parts to another body. Oh, and they called that a rebody. Now a days it's quite easy...and CS himself has signed off on this.
Except somebody needs to repop that 67 Shelby steering wheel, and get it right. And the shoulder harness winders are a 1 year piece too.

 

My 2 cents: A re-body car is one which an original car is so badly damaged, rusted or whatever to make it feasible to repair. Before these cars were worth what they are today, it made sense to replace the tub if the original was beyond repair. You took all the Shelby parts off the original car and put them on a donor tub. A clone is a car that is made up to look and perform, sometimes better than, a real Shelby. Clones usually do not have any kind of a Shelby serial number plate attached.
I had a friend who ran a Shelby and Mustang restoration business in Portland. We discussed at one time taking a 1965 Shelby that was badly damaged by rust. (He had a customer who wanted to do this) He told me to do it right, you had to start out with a white HiPo tub. The HiPo tubs were slightly different. The process to make one close to original was very labor intensive and therefore extremely expensive. AND after all that, if you knew where to look, you could always tell that the car was re-bodied. This isn’t an issue if the person who owns the car does not attempt to sell it as an original. Unfortunately, sometimes these cars get sold a number of times after restoration. The fact that it is a re-body can be at some point, forgotten.
Even if you did all the work to do it right, the fact is that a re-bodied car will never be worth what an original one is simply by the fact that the re-bodied car did not go through Shelby American. The knowledge that that car was never inside Shelby’s plant greatly reduces the value. IMHO, 25% of the price of an original car is still a lot of money. Clones are worth whatever someone will pay for them.

 

well, my uncle did body work for a ford dealer back in the 70's and he worked on a few shelbys also. he told me of at least three 67 shelbys that he replaced the front inner fender aprons and two of them got the right shock tower replaced. Back then they just replaced the parts with ford parts and didn't worry about the vin #'s as long as the tag was put back on. I passed up a deal on a 67 shelby gt500 about five years ago because it didn't have the vin #'s but had the tag and it was the real deal. i was wondering if it would be worth anything later and if people would think its a cloned rebody ??? if i had it to do over with i would have bought the car for 25k and had not wondered what people would think as a clone is bringing close to 50k and a elanore is going for 100k (thats a joke). even if my uncle had cut the vin #'s out and and put them in the new aprons later someone would have seen they have been added and then they would really think rebody. even concours cars don't have the same matching date codes on every NOS piece they used on their cars. i would say a rebody is worth 80% of the real deal if it carries the real shelby parts and no repo parts. what about the three above running around with just their tags are they like rebodied. also i would say that i bet many vin #'s were just added to the new aprons and when they owner see that they think a rebody when its not....