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The eBay moron bidders can't hold a candle to the bidders at the ongoing Barrett-Jackson auction this weekend. A 1953 Corvette with three miles (?) and a matching 2003 50th Anniversary Corvette just sold as a pair for $550,000! And, a late 1950's or early 1960's Corvette (got in on the tail end of the auction so I didn't get the exact year) just sold for $315,000!

Prior to that, a one-off 1954 Oldsmobile F-88 concept car, designed by Harley Earl and still owned by the Harley Earl family, sold for a record $3,000,000. That's Three Million Dollars dudes!!

And, a Boyd Coddington 1936 Delahaye street rod sold for $505,000 breaking all the records for the sale of a street rod. But.....that record only lasted a short time until a 1936 Chrysler Air Flow street rod sold for $510,000! These prices are without the commission added, so another 8 per cent is added to the above totals for what the buyer actually pays for the car.

Hey, those $1,200 washer jars on eBay ain't nothin' compared to this fiasco. :eek: :eek: :p

Heck JYD it is only MONEY! money is something that is unhandy to be without, It won't make you smarter, prettier, more cultured or talented, it just makes you richer, and the rich get richer and the rest of us stay the same!

..........except for Macky Wacky........who just gets "wackier"! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

it's not 8%. the seller and buyer EACH pay an 8% fee to BJ at the end of the sale. gonna retire soon based on prices BJA brought in this weekend. mike

I see nothing wrong with a bunch of people with a lot of money who don't mind overpaying. I enjoy it enough to watch it all night. I can almost justify the 3 million of the Old's concept car. After all how do you place a price on something that is more of part of history than a "car". The part that is real strange is a LS-6 Chevelle will sell for $300,000 and a 31 Caddy V-12 Roadster barely brakes $150,000. Or even some of A-C-D stuff that one would think would be in the big money. I also find it hard to believe that almost every one of the 427 Vette's had documentation to the extent that they were showing. Every one that I saw sold for over $100,000.
Just a few of my observations?
How correct can a car be (any car) if it has radial tires on when they don't belong? Why would they not have the correct tires, but yet have the correct style battery? :confused:
Is Brock Yates as dumb :confused: as he sounds? At least Alan DeCadenet would admit he did not know something and would pose the question, where as Yates came off like some know it all at the end of the bar. Did you know that the bidding premium for that Olds was about $250,000 WOW? Did you ever wonder where these guys (bidders)are when you go to sell something? I never can seem to find anyone with more money than brains when I sell anything!
Later
John

I guess the biggest mistake I've ever made was selling every car I've ever sold...including my '65 Corvette Roadster. I'd probably be a bazillionaire now. :(

"I never can seem to find anyone with more money than brains when I sell anything!"


Man..........ain't that the truth?? With my luck, I would have to pay someone to haul the stupid car away!!

The part that really scares me is that the "low prices" we are seeing on the Classics (Caddys packards, A-C-D's)is that some of these ego-maniac "Rod Builders" will start slicing them up. What a shame :(
John

did ya all notice the blue 65 fi tanker only brought @ 100k whereas the 66 white 425HP tanker got close to 200K. the FI car's paperwork included a NCRS top flight whereas the 66 tanker was a NCRS Duntov award winner.although NCRS specifically notes on the back of the judging sheets that the club isn't verifying originality, some of the astute buyers use NCRS judging sheets as an index of authenticty.Sad that a club composed of volunteers indirectly provides a sense of authenticity at a auction. mike

Mike the thing that gets me it is easy enough to fake a $50 bill, let alone some paperwork!
John

yep john. tank stickers, vin plates, trim plates, window stickers---they're all available. paperwork doesn't mean much to me. its the car that tells the story. regards, mike

Just my two cents worth here. In regards to rodders tearing apart classics just to put fancy wheels and crate engines in to them. I think the flood gates were opened when last year that V12 Lincoln Zepher sold for over a million. I can only hope that there is enoupgh sence out there in the old car world that there are some things are best left alone. As far as NCRS Vettes go. As a vette restorer (Amature at best) I think they do a great job of keeping the authenticiity aspect authentic. And believe the added value of having a NCRS correct Vette is well worth the premium. It's the only source of a valid and respected standard there is out there.

The Cord Westchester that just sold for I think around $42,000, was a pretty good deal for a really rare special car.

And.....the 1931 Lincoln that just sold at $61,000 was way less than the $100,000 it cost to restore the car. At the selling price, that was a very reasonable buy, but the bidders were not there for the true classics such as this. Interest now seems to be centered in the Corvettes, street rods and muscle cars. However, on the flip side near the end of the auction a beautiful stock 1958 Impala convertible sold for over $100,000. :eek: :eek:

Did anyone see the Baldwin Motion Corvette go on the block?
John

I didn't see it. :( :( :(

yes, i saw it go(think Kevin McKay was owner or owner's rep as he was on TV and involved in the sale). don't recall what it brought. mike

B-J had over 5,000 owners and cars that wanted to be in the sale and B-J only had room for 600 so they picked what they thought would make them the most $$$$$$$$$, this is why all the cars were also "no reserve" cars.

Sad that original cars were not as desired as the "buy some billet stuff and stick it on and paint it" rods...a 1931 V-12 (real rare) Cadillac roadster (with some great accessories)in near mint (had been sitting in a museum, 'older total restoration' so it is called near mint) it was as close to perfect as you could get and it sold for only $131,000... When the 'modern rods' went for a lot more...

Times and taste have gotten really strange to me…
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I grew up a few miles from Baldwin Motion. I remember my Mother ran our 63 Nova wagon low on oil and toasted the engine, this had to be around 1969. My Father saw an ad in the Long Island Press of a Chevrolet dealer selling slightly used Chevrolet six cylinder engines. We went down on a Saturday and they demonstrated an engine in a new (price tag) on the window Fathom Green Nova. They told my dad that this is the engine and they were taking it out to put in a V-8. It did not make sense and he was very skeptical. The service manager even offered to install it for free. That is what scared dad! So he bought a used engine from a junk yard in The Bronx, that ended up burning oil. I know I got off the topic..... but I just did not really know what I was looking at the time.
It is just strange to see these Motion cars show up all over the place. I know that they did not do many Vettes and with all of the crazy money flowing in AZ this week I am sure that car could have pulled in some big CASH!
John

I have the same problem, I can buy em but never seem to be able to sell them. I did luck out recently though, sold the wifes 1976 Yamaha Observed Trials bike for twice what she paid for it new. Course the bike was a little gray haired grandmothers and was only used to climb logs and rock piles on Sundays.

For a complete list of the Barrett-Jackson auction results go here:

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/bj05results.asp

On the list note that a 1966 Corvette sold for $159,300! :eek: :eek: :confused:

It only went for 226,000. I just thought it would go for more.
John

Wow....that's all? Hum.........for that price I could have bought almost four of those 1931 Lincolns! ha ha! :eek: :eek:

But I can almost see that number for a Motion car or a Yenko, those cars are special and in all honesty a museum piece. I can't see $160,000 for a Big Block Vette with some "original" paperwork. I agree I think the better deal is the 31 Lincoln
John

1932 CADILLAC 452 B V-16 DUAL-WINDSHIELD ALL-WEATHER PHAETON $135,000 I would take this over ANY of the higher priced street rods sold.

On the list of selling prices they included the 8% so the list that the JYD posted above is the final cost to the buyer (seller still has to pay his 8%).