The car sold during a commercial break. Did any one see if it was on the computer feed and record it? I watched for an hour and a half today just to see what that car did. Anyone catch a replay?
I had the live cam going all day on my computer JUST in case a commercial interferred and OF COURSE it did. The computer showed me the CDM roll towards center stage, zoomed in on the driver and STALLED right there and that is all I got, until a phone call from AZ informed me of the news. What a friggen drag ...so I did not get it. I guess they decided to break so they wouldn't interrupt the King! No disrespect intended to the King, but damn it man ........ Does anyone know who bought the car?
Well, what did it sell for???????????? Some uf us have to work in the shop all day (and drink beer), and don't get to hang out and watch TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All those final prices that you see on their website include the buyers fee, which, if I'm not mistaken, is 10%... So, you are both right.
Speed channel's website has a bunch of Featured Video's with some of the special cars. I can't find a link to contact them and request that sale be posted. Perhaps it will show up.
I just got a phone call from a guy at the auction who knows the buyer of the Club De Mer. He said the bidding went like this: Started at $50,000 A guy bid $50,000 They asked for $75,000 The eventual buyer bid $75,000 Another guy bid $76,000 The eventual buyer then bid $100,000. No one else bid after that.
Its funny,when I was a kid,I spent a lot of time at warhoops,they never crushed any of the vintage stuff.I remember the green one sitting on a stack,and asking juinor(the owner)about it.All he would say was his granddad had a deal with gm.In the last few years they have made him crush most of it.You can still find stuff there tho...Dave
Hey does anybody have CDM photos of the headlights and finished trunk area after it was done? I'm building the Revell reissue kit and thought it would look cool to super detail it Cheers
I don't mean to kick a dead horse, but I would LOVE to figure out where the information that that car was crushed came from. My dad and I have been searching for whatever happened to this car (we even spent an entire day looking through the GM archives to find even a clue of whatever happened to the original Club De Mer. Nowhere does it say if it was stolen, crushed or sold. This car, even if it is rotting in a barn, is worth MILLIONS. It would be a waste if this car was crushed.
Guess they should have sold the original.... I'm sure GM could have used the $$$ to fund other projects...
Here is a post you may be interested in Posted 2010/11/05 @ 04:00 AM By Myles Kornblatt BUT what I want to know is did anyone see the auction? who bought the car from Mr. Arnold (first owner) and what did it sell for the 2nd time on the block? Posted 2010/11/05 @ 04:00 AM By Myles Kornblatt 1956, General Motors design guru Harley Earl was in his twilight. Detroit was firmly planted in the idea of 'lower, wider, longer', but Earl's concept cars seem to be concerned with 'shorter, smaller, sleeker'. A perfect example is the Pontiac Club de Mer Motorama show car. Pontiac was going through a revolution in 1956. The Club de Mer was part of the company's plan to shed its ho-hum image for trendier styling and more performance. Pontiac was basically pulling off the same feat Buick is doing today. The Club de Mer would likely be a treasured part of GM's modern collection had it not been crushed per the policy with most concept cars. Marty Martino has built a few recreations of notable show cars, and he decided this Pontiac concept needed a proper tribute. He sifted through photos of the original show car and used GM's 1/4 scale model of the Club de Mer (still in existence) to create a one-off that is the closest we can get to appreciating the original Club de Mer. He seemed to get all the details right like the then-famous silver streaks on the hood, flip up headlights, single rear shark fin, and silver mylar-infused interior carpeting. The only small bit of irony is that Martino's Club de Mer has a drivetrain and 389 V8 are from a 1959 Pontiac, one year after GM's Club de Mer was crushed (it was truly a car of the future.) This weekend in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Hollywood Wheels Car Auction will send this Pontiac Club de Mer to a new owner. It is a somewhat fitting tribute as West Palm Beach is the city Earl retired to when he left GM in 1958.
DocRob- see my post earlier in this thread (#41). With that in mind, I believe there's only 2 possible sources for the claim the CdM was destroyed: GM records, or an eyewitness. GM records are not irrefutable on this issue, and that has been do***ented. I have yet to hear there were any eyewitnesses. Therefore, in my mind, the destruction is heresay. Like I stated previously, 'no one' seemed to know there were 2 '54 Bonneville Specials until 1999, and the Bonne Spec was reportedly slated for destruction in '59 according to GM... but they (both) escaped. I would believe it if GM records 'proved' the Bonne Spec was "destroyed". Club de Mer (tho not my personal favorite concept) is wild enough I could see a supreme effort to save it. God, I wish there was definitive proof on the fate of ALL the '50s dream cars... all this sitting around & daydreaming the lost ones still exist (and waiting for me to find 'em) is wearing me out! Add to this; supposed rumors that 2 of them are here in Jersey...
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