i think the poncho is a brandy style ride...but 20k! the chevy was a joke for 18,000 (repaint, over some serious looking rust! (silver dollar sized rust bubbles in the base of the doors) the best was the remains of a 30 A sedan that some one had lowered (yellow one on the trailer) the front axle might as well have been welded to the front cross member, but you got some really cool grey 90's astro van seats with it for 7,000
Station wagons are in style and being in style cost money. Got too rich for my budget when they changed the name to Longroofs. Or is it Longrooves? Besides, are there EVER any good deals at Good Guys events? Especially PeeTown?
i had an offer on my nova, about a week after i got, so i started looking around for another ride, found a '59 bel air station wagon (4 lights in the rear) 2500.00 w/ little gold daytons, 327 and a powerslide. i called the guy and said give me the money and the nova is yours....hum heee haaa, cant afford it. i wish i had bought it now, cause hell if i took it to this show and hocked it for 7,500 i would have been money ahead. (but i probably wouldn't sell it) crazy.
They tried to hide it with guide-coat, but the sedan looked like about 30 monkeys had attacked it with ball-peen hammers.
In general car prices have been on the rise over the past few years. When you can get $7500 or more for a POS model A driver (with a $250 rusted body) then its easy to see how something like that wagon could ask $18k. From 10 ft it looks tough sitting low and chrome reverse wheels. Does not mean he will get it... just asking price.. Now that I have built my wagon and getting close to finishing my Sedan, I will tell you it cost alot more to build a 50's/60's car then it does the Model A. As for a wagon, they are even more expensive do to the lack of available parts and a lot more interior space to fill with interior.
Very true. I was also thinking about inflation. My first pair of Levi 501s cost $3.45 at the Palmdale Army Surpluss, in 1959. I bought a pair last month at the Bellflower Doughboys Army surpluss and they cost nearly $40!!!!! Of course, it takes quite a bit more denim to build a pair for me now, ha ha. But the news ones are from Bangla Desh,:-(. But I love wagons and would NEVER have predicted the're current price.
the best deal I saw was the red 55 Tbird that looked like a driver for $13500.....didn't last long. I was selling my 72 chevy truck.....wouldn't you know every other swingin***** seemed to have on for sale too!!! must have been at least twent 67-72 trucks there.....oh well! I did score a nice set of tires for my kids truck so it wasn't a total loss!
this is what cracked me up so much, it was that they had taken the "time" to torch the front spring so it sat on the axle: lowered. bolt on some steel wheels (that the hubs probably didn't fit) and then shoot the whole abomination with yellow primer and a guide coat and stuff in some astro van seats. It wasn't that the car was expensive, or that they are getting expensive it was that this car was an out and out lie, it is an example of the worst kind of ebay shenanigans around. If you did not look at the car in person (computer photo on ebay) you might think it looked straight-ish and was worth maybe 3,000, but when you saw your new purchase in person you would want to shoot some one, or just beat the seller with something off his car. Also i think the starting price was around 10k, but had been summarily crossed out a couple of times. Also, it didn't appear that the car had been prepped before it was sprayed, there was a lot of "earthy remains" that could be seen throught the primer. and the engine did not have a head on it and looked like it had been sitting out in the rain and mud for about 30 years. So if any one sees a primered yellow model A on Ebay, with black 14" steels, located some where in the northern nevada, stop this f*cker cause some one will get screwed.
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