Not anywhere near that. The car is ultra clean, but he found a spot on the trunk extentions that he felt we're done sloppily (the extentions are the metal rails that the trunk pan attach to). The car has a new trunk pan but the shop that did it failed to hammer out or straighten the rails better, and didn't paint them. So because of that he took a bit off for it.
He checked everything else and was impressed. The paint on the nose of the car is also cracking (I'm betting the shop that did it must've painted it without flex primer in it?), so he took off for that too.
Although Firebirds aren't exactly laying around everywhere, (or in great shape for that matter),true antiques like an old Biscane or whatnot are the ones truly fetching big-buck apprasial value when super clean. I'm in the understanding that what you would call muscle or 50's classics are the one's that are the real money grabbers. I'd say anything after 72' lost that "classic muscle" tag for high value.
For the couple of items he subtracted points from, he gave it a $9,500 dollar value, which is pretty good considering I didn't pay anywhere near that price from my younger brother.
It paid off, higher value for car, and cheap antique insurance= me being very happy
I'd say that is pretty damn good for a 75' Formula car. Maybe if it were a 69' T.A or something, it would've been higher. I'm happy....