[ QUOTE ] HOLY SHIT!!!!!! I cannot believe the price that the copper and silver Zephyr just got....$400,000.00.... that is just crazy! I like the car but.... -Joe [/ QUOTE ] If that is the car I'm thinking of(haven't had a chance to watch tv today) it's a Spokane car. 4 guy's I know went together and bought it a few months ago, just to re-sell. I don't wanna say what they gave for it, but they did GOOD!(I thought it would bring 250K or so) I'm bettin the guy they bought it from is kickin himself in the ass! It is one of the nicest cars I've ever seen.
ok this auction is getting ridiculously addicting for some.................my dad and I were working on my daily driver today and he had to leave at 2 pm so he could watch the fuckin show at my house! gee, thanks for nothing Barrett-Jackson lol
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] HOLY SHIT!!!!!! I cannot believe the price that the copper and silver Zephyr just got....$400,000.00.... that is just crazy! I like the car but.... it's a Spokane car. 4 guy's I know went together and bought it a few months ago, just to re-sell. !( guy they bought it from is kickin himself in the ass! It is one of the nicest cars I've ever seen. If they bought it right. it was a good investment. I think it's twice the car SCRAPE ever was and sold for less than half
Love it or hate it, some cool cars roll across! Good for the people that can afford it, I wish I could. I think Alan and the rest of the crew do a great job commenting. Between them all there's a lot of knowledge. I look forward to it every year. Oh well, just my 2 cents.
These guys are out of control. Can you believe over $100K for a green, yes green duece roadster that was NOT an historic hot rod? You could have made that car for $50K! How about over $200K for a Shelby Mustang GT500 w/ an automatic? How about the goofy red '49 Dodge 1 1/2 ton stepside that the owner/seller had poured buckets of dollars on going for over $40K? However, it is addictive & I sure wish I had more money than brains.
The price bid on that green deuce roadster was fucking insane. $110,000+ for a run-of-the-mill late '80s deuce rod - with a SBC, tweed interior and tilt/telescopic? You can buy that car all day at traderonline.com for $30-$40k. Then, an hour later an Ardun deuce roadster goes for $95k. Still a stupid price, but the morons in that crowd were willing to pay $15k more for a fucking small block?! Another thing - didja notice that sectioned blue shoebox? Sorta like Billy Gibbons'. I think that went for around $140k or something, buyer was Skip Barber. By the way, the announcers didn't notice it but the guy who bought the Shelby GT500 was Ted Waitt of Gateway Computer fame.
Trent - Funny thing - I knew TW back a gazillion years ago, when he was a lil' kid. My dad used to buy cattle from his dad. My dad occasionally rubs elbows with Ted, at the $5 blackjack tables in Sioux City.
I went to the auction yesterday. It's just a big car show to me. I was able to kick the tires on Bob Harrop's 1961 Pontiac "Super Duty" Catalina. That was worth the $25 price of admission right there.
Intresting fact about this years auction. This year there is a larger than normal amount of European buyers. The American dollar has fallen in value so much, that the prices that the Europeans are picking up the cars at, in most cases, are realative bargains with the exchange rate. Hot Rods have become very popular overseas, and even at the prices that they are going for, they will probably make a profit abroad.
[/ QUOTE ] If that is the car I'm thinking of(haven't had a chance to watch tv today) it's a Spokane car. [/ QUOTE ] Yep. That's the one! Still can't belive the $$$ amount!
Reminds me of a short story in AutoWeek once by Keith Martin who does all of the auction stuff for them.A prime example of,"Auction Fever"or,"I can piss farther than you can 'cause I've got a bigger.."you know the rest. Anyway up for grabs was a pristine 57 Fuelie 'Vette that at the time was going for around 35 to 50K.These two imbeciles with more money than sense got into it and bid the thing up to 260K! and that didn't include the buyer's premium! The ironic thing(that Martin mentioned in closing)was that the loser of the bidding war could take some consolation in knowing that if he wanted to,he could go out and buy about FIVE Fuelie 'Vettes for the same price and STILL have enough to register and insure them all! Whatever the result it's a lose-lose situation.
I sure am glad that I am not he only one to think that the majority of the commentators on this show are a bunch of f#*king idiots! My wife can't understand why I just about come unglued when I hear their senseless drivel. Especially Brock Yates. What a moron-no, make that a f#*king moron. I have met him on several occassions as he lives just down the road from my home in upstate NY and it would be hard to imagine anyone else that is as impressed with himself as is old Brock. A real horses ass. Alain De Cadenet may well be an expert on things European but, he don't know shit about our good old USofA cars so why does he keep jabbering on as if he does. The two of these guys really give me heartburn. Notwithstanding my complaints with the commentators, it was satisfying in an unusual way to see a "hot rod" draw the top price for the auction. I bet that really pissed off more than a few of the restorers and Europe-is-best f*#kwads. Kinda made my day.
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