WANTED Wanted '73 C body Spindles
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commando1
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Current FAIR market value which unfortunately is sky rocketting.
Which is what? About $100 bucks?
commando1
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:laughing4:
68plymouth383
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The 73 c body disc brake spindles are the ones everyone wants. If I had to hazard a guesstimate between 300-400 for good clean spindles, and calipers from him. There getting harder to find by the day.
68plymouth383
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The only benefit to getting the calipers would be for the core. The price won't change much, cause the spindles are what's rare...
azblackhemi
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People who have a couple of pairs don't really want to give them up. Even for a couple hundred dollars.
twostick
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My understanding is that they are doing unicast rotors with small bearings now so that should make the 69-72 spindles more appealing.
Kevin
Kevin
commando1
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Who is "they" and your understanding is from whom.
twostick
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My "understanding" was from an article I read the source of which escapes me and "they" would be my local Carquest dealer.
I have looked up rotors for a 70 C-body on Autozone and get the same part # as the 73 so you know that's wrong but after I read this article a few years ago I checked with my local guy and his database showed 2 different unicast rotors. The early one was more $ than the 73 but it wasn't 4x the price.
RockAuto has them for $100 and it is described as a full cast. Their other one is $107. This is for the early 72 and older rotors. The 73's are +/- $50
Kevin
I have looked up rotors for a 70 C-body on Autozone and get the same part # as the 73 so you know that's wrong but after I read this article a few years ago I checked with my local guy and his database showed 2 different unicast rotors. The early one was more $ than the 73 but it wasn't 4x the price.
RockAuto has them for $100 and it is described as a full cast. Their other one is $107. This is for the early 72 and older rotors. The 73's are +/- $50
Kevin
commando1
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And you bring up a good point. If my unique part costs 3x as much as other years, but it is still generally available, I would grumble about the price and use the correct part rather than go to a DIY conversion and for what?
twostick
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Absolutely. I would spend the extra $100 for rotors and use pre 73 spindles before I would buy one of the paint by numbers kits. Of course if you just can't get a set of spindles (think our friends in Europe or Oz) or you want Autobahn capable Viper type brakes, you have to do what you have to do.
Kevin
Kevin
I pulled the trigger on a set of '72 Fury spindles,rotors ect. for 2 reasons. 1st was price....$100 plus shipping for everything. 2nd was that the rotors looked really good and how many miles will I actually be putting on these parts. The guy I bought these from told me he has had the same setup on his '69 ragtop for 12 years and has had absolutely no problems....It's not like I will be putting 60,000 miles a year on the car.
I talked to Murray about 6 weeks ago and he did have a couple of good sets.$250 for spindles,calipers and brackets plus shipping.
commando1
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That's a fair price in my opinion.
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