Everybodys favorite "traditional" hotrod, Loaded, just sold at BJ

Stop stuttering FNG.

 

When it comes down to eyther BJ or OJ, SPIN THE DIAL!

 

OK, now why dont you just shut the **** up?

 

Wow is all i can say.....

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It was truly sad, I was just shocked when both of thoose cars went for the money they did. Almost speechless... I think they should have gone for more, and I do agree with trent you cant build them for that.

 

according to one reliable source the car cost 1.3 million to build. I can't verify that, I wasn't there, but it would explain the bowed heads and head shaking.
Shame.

 

Unbelievable! Someone got an insane deal! The build quality and detail on that thing is outstanding, I really like it a lot.

 

Not trying to be the ignorant retard, but could someone explain to me what the majority of this money went toward on this car? Again, I love it, I just don't understand where it all went. Please, help me...spread the gospel...

Mootz

 

I can appreciate the effort, the workmanship and the ATD on " Loaded " but I just never 'got it' . It did not scream hot rod to me. Maybe it was just too finished, too slick and too much of a concept type car. Now do not get me wrong.....it is/was WAY nicer than any of the stuff I could ever hope to own But I saw lots of stuff go for way less money at the B-J auction that I would rather have.

 

I just saw these cars today (for the first time) at the auction. At the time I did not know what they sold for, but remember thinking they were both a couple of the nicest hot rods I had ever seen.

Now they didnt have the "traditional" unsafe, unfinished, ol' skool rod, skull and iron crosses over primer jobs that "traditional" rods seem to need now, but damn they are both great looking cars.

The money they sold for is a moot point, since that is a world I will never know or understand. The money I spend on old engine parts and equipment to sit around my house or gain a couple ponies would make a poverty striken family puke. To some people money isnt worth as much.

My favorite was the G.M. tour bus jobby but I heard that sold for like 4 mil

 

It's an art piece. It's beautiful.

All of our cars are art pieces, but most of us fall into the 'starving artist' category. When a car like this is unveiled, it is more like Leonardo just dropped the curtain on something he spent three years working on in solitude. There was a great deal of workmanship done here.

What this shows is that the public still hasn't been able to wrap their heads around our art.

Doesn't make much difference to me, but I'm not in it for the money or fame. Some are, and I respect that, hopefully we get some more recognition soon.

 

i saw that car in pueblo last year. very cool to say the least

 

Very interesting, and unreal how much some of these cars go for...or what the new owners are going to do with the cars. I have seen so many more cars built by some of you guys that I would rather own! Wish I had Speed so I could see some of the action...oh well...

Adam

 

most of the money goes to redoing 3 time to get it perfect ... o buying 15 of
the same item just to finaly get the one that is just right

just like doing a resoration ... you wind up with a TON of stuff left over that you picked up for w/e reason ... and everything wind up being counted in the final price ....

 

My favorite is the Avenger...I've always dreamed of owning that car someday or atleast 'clone it'....

I thought that car would have pulled more than it did..Its truly a work of art but also dont understand why he would sell something like that...His loss is somebody elses gain...literally!

 

When the car was at Starbird/Tulsa last year, Mr.Mac was talkin' to the owner and he let it slip that he had $310,000 in it.

 

It's a Hot Rod...no...MORE than that...a beautiful, one off piece of automotive art. The builder is surely gifted!!!

But its PROPORTIONED to look like what 90% of the general public would term a RAT ROD.
To many rich Rodders, its just the proverbial french ***** in makeup and diamonds.

Face it...without the $$$ bling on the very same body and frame...75% of the sellers and buyers at Barrett/Jackson wouldn't even want it parked next to them at a meet! There's a few wouldn't want it as it sits!
It has the LOOK they have come to distain...

IF that car had brought home 1.5 million, it would mean the new trad movement was fully accepted by the main stream.
It brought home "just" $190,000.00?

We're good.

I feel for the seller (as much as I can for a guy with a loose 1.3mil anyway...)
but if your afraid of snake eyes...leave the dice in your pocket.

 

Cl***ic/Custom car auctions are like a beautiful train wreck...you hate to watch, but you're drawn by some kind of ******istic tendency...you do and don't want to be one of the participants, you love to hate, you hate that you love...

The point is...if we look at these auctions objectively...they are an exercise in pure narccissistic captialism. Is anything MORE meaningless, in ALL the universe, than the selling of automobiles as sport!? Can comp***ion or sympathy be more ill-placed than on the owner/buyer of such an object? Or can the coveting of an object be any more reprehensible than the image of a guy dropping to his knees and raising his hands to the heavens in praise?

There are few things in the world less important than how rich people spend their discretionary income. The ONLY positive in this whole lewd bacch**** of gross consumerism is that it incrementaly raises the value of well-done hot rods. That gives hot rods legitimacy, and in the end, provides stability and longevity to those of us that struggle here in the lower cl***es.

The rumor that the guy had $310,000 in Loaded is probably a solid rumor...it certainly wasn't less than that. And he sold it for $190,000. So it cost him $120,000 to "rent" the car for a year...$10,000 a month, for the privledge of driving the thing.

To rich people, thats pocket change. Don't feel bad for people that can blow that kinda money. They know where more money is buried

For the rest of us...I suggest turning off the TV and getting back to work. I plan on driving my heap past every rich loser thats hitchiking home from Barret Jackson next year

 

I wonder if the car went for 1/2 million, or pick your number, if this thread wouldn't be whinning about how everybody is now into traditional rods and the prices are going to go up.

I see this as a good deal, may keep a few of the mainstream wannabies (sp) out.

I also like the car, very well detailed but $190,000 should buy you alot of car. The problem is that the prices of the muscle cars is distorting the prices of other cars. As stated before by others, just glad I am not into muscle cars. Neal

 

To drive it on and off the trailer!

Nice car but would do other things with the cash. But I don't have that kinda cash............

Bill

 

okay, I don't wanna sound like an a-hole, but for the first sentence of this, I'm gonna...Cars like the Hemi (which is all matching numbers and such )are worth more simply due to rarity and notoriety.Cars like Loaded,while beautiful,will never bring what they cost to build simply because (unless they gain the notoriety of say Chicayne or Cadzilla) They will never make it into the "general publics" view. Yes, it made it onto the cover of the rodders journal, but when was the last time you saw a TRJ at a 7-11? It has everything to do with memory, allowance and notoriety. Being involved with musclecars, I can call out what a 69 gto is worth, and what it should be worth. I wouldn't know where to begin with Loaded. (though I could guess at it,and know I would get it wrong) The guys at BJ are probably very similar. not to mention that alot of these guys do serious homework before goin' to the auction (I understand there is a published list weeks before the actual event) They know what they are there to aquire. Yes, there were a handfull of convertible Hemi made, but they have a value to alot of people. There is only one Loaded. The question is, where will its value go as more and more people actually see it?

 

Craig Jackson is
THE DEVIL

 

Not sure how it works but last year and this year alot of people bought their cars back. Barrett-Jackson just switched to no reserve. Some people pay themselves for their cars if they don't reach a certain price.

 

1) 'Everybody's' favorite?
Not.........
2) Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against street-rods, most of them are real purty. But this car(?) ain't even close to being a traditional hot-rod. It's a gold-chain street-rod.
3) How much did he have in it? **** that don't mean anything. It sold. That means whoever put it up for auction was happy with the sale. Those sales have a thing called a reserve, and no owner is going to take a bath beyond the listing fee.
4) Where are the administrators? Since this is beyond ****ing obvious that it isn't "in the tradition", close this thread!

 

NO reserve at B-J this year......

 

I agree. You should get a whole lot of hotrod for that kind of cash, and it really doesn't matter what the guy spent building it. For a small fraction of the cost of that car, I could think of at least 20 HAMB members who could build me a '29 RPU with nice gold paint, an early Hemi, a drilled I beam and Wide 5 wheels and in my eyes, it would be just as cool as "Loaded".

 

Come on, Some of you guys are acting like a bunch of ****in snobs, "Oh I cant believe it......only 190k...the crime...**** you!, time for you to start thinking the next STREET ROD NATIONALS. Yeah its about the cars ...but the at***ude is really starting to get snobbish around the HAMB these days, the buzz words flying around like "mainstream, or "traditional" (which is a comment to an above post about being unsafe, with iron crosses) if you think that is what traditional is...wake the hell up, and think before you make stupid "I know all about hot rod culture"
posts, And as far as BJ and thoes other rich ***** auctions go, they are like slave auctions, catering to the ***holes that flip me **** for not having power windows, even though they cant even change oil, I just dont get it, within a year theres sure a bunch off lame threads popping up, Thats my 2 cents, Im gonna go work on my car, and not jack off to the idea It will be worth all this money some day, BJ auction attendees/bidders have NO SOUL,

 

I build what I love.....and let the chips fall where they may. No sympathy for the deep pocket guys losing money on this stuff....it happens every day, only on a smaller scale.....to people with a "smaller scale paycheck"....sometimes me...sometimes you. Quit ur snivelin "BDR"