At this time’s Good Worth or No Cube Logghe dragster was constructed to not barrel down the quarter mile however for “cackling” automobile meets. That’s a singular and particular function, and it’ll require some novel considering on our half to determine what it could be value.
With over 317,000 miles in its rear-view mirror, yesterday’s 2009 Mercedes-Benz E350 wagon actually takes the prize for sturdiness and stick-with-in-ness. At simply $5,900, it additionally gained our vote, incomes a stable 69 p.c Good Worth final result.
At this time being Friday the thirteenth—a notoriously unfortunate day in accordance with sure cultural norms—we’d wish to deal with the anticipated unhealthy juju by stepping out of our consolation zone and one thing manner out of the atypical. I believe this 1967 Loogghe AA/FD dragster qualifies as each discomforting (the driving force does straddle the possibly explosive differential) in addition to fairly wild.
First, although, simply what the hell is that this factor, and why would somebody construct a vintage-style front-engine dragster? Based on the advert, the automobile, dubbed ‘Angel’s Flight,’ is “a recreation of a automobile my buddy drove in ’67 with an important historical past in addition to the story of the donor automobile which had its personal nice historical past, racing into the ’80s.”
The construct was accomplished simply final September and is predicated on a classic tube chassis manufactured in 1967 by the Logghe Brothers’ Stamping Firm in Detroit, Michigan. Atop that may be a NOS fiberglass physique by Kellison, into which has been wedged a 1957 Chrysler 392 Hemi. That’s completed with a de rigeuer Roots-style blower and Hilborn injection. The under-butt rear-end can also be out of a classic Chrysler and is fitted on both finish with disc brakes. An ass-mounted drag chute is prepared for when these show not sufficient.
The end result is just not avenue authorized—and even highway succesful—nor wouldn’t it be monitor aggressive in something apart from classic exhibition occasions. As an alternative, the vendor says the automobile was constructed for cackling occasions. These are exhibits the place classic racers are pulled out, dusted off, after which fired up so {that a} bunch of previous guys in Jorts and tucked-in T-shirts can stand round and take heed to them idle and rev so they may benefit from the “cackle” of the unfettered exhaust. And sure, that’s completely a factor.
The automobile appears to suit the invoice, both for a static occasion or for giving the engine a smidge of train. The physique seems fantastically completed in sweet apple crimson gel coat with white and gold flake accents. Even the under-body is show-worthy, having been sprayed with bedliner for what the vendor claims is a “clear look.”
Not one of the advert’s footage present the automobile with both the blower belt or high-tension wires from magneto to plugs in place, so apparently it’s being offered with some meeting required. That’s minor stuff, and all of the heavy lifting of the automobile’s construct and the engine’s rebuild (professionally accomplished, in accordance with the advert) have been accomplished.
As this isn’t a avenue automobile, mileage and title matter not. Per the vendor, it’s a “lovely piece of Automotive Historical past and Automotive artwork.” At $31,000, they are saying, it may very well be had for the “worth of an inexpensive Camaro.”
That’s a fairly particular comparability, and few of us would seemingly contemplate a $31K Camaro notably low-cost. That being mentioned, we now want to deal with the query of this dragster’s worth. What do you assume? Is it value $31,000 in mild of its supposed objective and match for that objective? Or does that worth depart you cackling with disdain?
You determine!
Phoenix, Arizona, Craigslist, or go right here if the advert disappears.
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