Vintage Mustang prices in 2024

[OffYourFace]

Well it makes me appreciate mine more I guess.

Edit:
I just plugged it in. Man it sounds so good. Somehow it sounds bigger than my Strat. I’ll never sell it. Is it worth $3k or whatever? Idk I think I’d rather keep than accept $3k tbh.

[terminalvertigo]

Wonder what the purpleburst premium is now, if the regular ones are really selling at the prices being discussed.

I paid $1850 in 2013 for mine.

Craziness

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[JSett]

I paid $1850 in 2013 for mine.

...which was a lot for a Mustang 11 years ago!

[terminalvertigo]

I paid $1850 in 2013 for mine.

...which was a lot for a Mustang 11 years ago!

It was!

Glad i bought it, regardless of the "value increase" now

still my favourite finish ever from fender in the 60s.

[panoramic]

Wonder what the purpleburst premium is now, if the regular ones are really selling at the prices being discussed.

I paid $1850 in 2013 for mine.

Craziness

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it's worth 3 times that now, the one i play all the time is a 74 and I got it for $700 back in like 2005. I had a Musicmaster when I got it that I picked up for like $350, it was a 77 and I guess that was in 2004.

[Jonesie]

One of my buddies bought a red 64 or 65 Mustang in 2021 for $2000 and I thought he got ripped off at the time. It's a really cool guitar, plays great, sounds great, but $2k for a mustang seems nuts to me still.

[caples]

Im selling a really nice olympic white '68 for 2500 right now. nearly all original, but its been for sale for a while. I don't think people are really paying that much for mustangs

[pacemaker]

I don't even know where to begin on this subject, but it has been on my mind a lot lately as I have my blue 1973 Compstang listed on here for sale.

I saw your listing and was quietly appreciative of your price - especially given *that* color scheme. Your journey with vintage Fenders sounds very similar to mine - and a lot of others who have chimed in here.

I don't think people are really paying that much for mustangs

Right? Like... maybe some people are, but what is the ACTUAL Mustang economy?

[JamesSGBrown]

In the UK at least, Musicmaster prices are also similarly mad. I want to replace the '72 I sold (for £750 in 2017, though it was a refin) but I don't wanna pay double that!!

[crazyzeke]

Yeah it makes me laugh how the tide has turned as concerns vintage offset Fenders. I forget the name of the website but there was one in the late 90s/early 2000s where the guy graded guitars based on perceived collectability, so if you had a '54 Strat in mint condition it'd be an A+ or whatever. Big, detailed website for the time, what we retrospectively call the "Web 1.0" era I suppose.

I remember seeing his take on a mint example of a '62 Jag (launch year of course) and I believe he graded it a C+ in terms of collectability, which annoyed me at the time but I suppose makes sense, however because it's so subjective a lot of people would probably consider that and vintage Mustangs an A+ now, especially when we live in a world where Kurdt's Teen Spirit Comp-Stang sold for $4.5 million which for perspective is quite a lot more than the sub-$1 million that Clapton's famous Blackie Partscaster Strat went for, even accounting for "inflation".

Do I think either of those guitars are worth that much? As instruments, no. As pieces of history, maybe, but it still seems like crazy money just because famous hands touched it and made great music with it. For me - and this is highly subjective of course - it reinforces the fact that most guitarists don't realise the simple truth that tone really is in the fingers, and that great players using ostensibly the same guitar will sound like themselves due to technique. For example, Jeff Beck and Dave Gilmour both use Strats, both are known for their stunning lead work, but they sound completely different of course. For the record I'd pick Beck over Gilmour (Jeff is a total wizard when it comes to using the bar for multiple perfect pitch bends in one highly controlled down/up motion plus I've never heard someone do volume swells so perfectly) but both are legends for a reason.