I was there at the auction and some of the stuff was new, My friend bought a 81? dodgepickup it had 300 miles on it . The dashpad was beat and paint on the hood was peeling . i bid it to 200bucks andI think he got it for 900. The real treasure was the parts dept, i heard they cleared more on it the the cars.
When the last Cadillac Eldorado was made it was HEAVILY hyped in the newspapers as the last American convertible of all time forever and ever, and as an instant cl***ic (I would think more a cl***ique, an entirely different genre) and a certain brilliant investment. Reportedly, quite a number of people dove right in, buying cars at well over list in the frenzy and squirreling them away. I read somewhere that one guy even hunted down a leftover top ***embly not used on the line as another great thing. Online articles claim that there was even a cl***-action lawsuit attempted when GM dared to produce another convertible a few years later. There must be a bunch of sealed garages out there, guarded by embittered die hards with pinky rings and bad toupes checking each issue of their Old Car Price Guides to catch the curve as their heaps soar past Duesenberg and Bugatti...
Ive been told by a few people that there used to be an old car junkyard back in around the 60s-70s that all it was, was 30s, 40s, and 50s cars, and that most of them were still in good shape or had tons of good parts on them. However, the guy always wanted too much and didnt sell a whole lot as a result. He went out of business, and instead of auctioning off cars to make some money back, he dug a huge pit and pushed all the cars in, and filled in the hole. Why is it that these types of people always end up with the cool cars?