More crazy car prices

[Raceman]

Here's an LS6 project car with a replacement engine. (non original)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=4607690283&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT

56 thousand bucks, and looks like it needs most of that spent on it again to finish it........over 50 bids.

[RedAllison]

Like I said lastmonth, the recent B/J auction hasn't done a damn thing to "set the market" as Craig Jackson liked to put it. When you assemble a few thousand or so "deep pocketed" willing bidders along with exemplary specimens of around 1500 cars the result is NOT setting the damned market. The result is akin to handing out trailer loads of crack in the ghetto. EVERY swingin ..... thinks his muscle car is now worth his kids college fund and because he saw "the same thing" on TV that somehow makes it acceptable.

The good news? The old saw about "a fool and his money are soon parted".

The bad news? Once those fidiots are broke and have pissed away their savings it us is the taxpayers who are gonna have to pay for their broke arses existence with more SS and Medicare.

Sorry, but the Baby Boom generation continues NOT to impress me each and every day!
RA

[heath brinkley]

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Sorry, but the Baby Boom generation continues NOT to impress me each and every day!
RA

Yep, spend 'till it's gone. Gub'ment gonna take care of us.

I would have to dissagree with you on the first part of your post though. It seems to me B/J is somewhat setting the market. Did you look at the ebay link.:eek:

It's like the stock market, Raceman, you need to sell high. I think in 20 years when the baby boom gen. is gone, prices will be back down or at least no worse.:confused:

Of course with that mentality I will be sittin' on my porch, musclecarless, sayin' **** like "back in my day I coulda had on of them there LS6's fer 80 grand" and my grandkid will be sayin' **** like "Grandpa, you dumbass, you shoulda bought 5 of 'em fer that price. I wish I was around back then";)

[Raceman]

Makes me wonder what my 2 LS6 cars are really worth in today's market. I really got screwed when I bought em.................... I bought the Chevelle in 1981 with the original engine gone, but a promise of it for 750. It took two years and another 700 bucks to get the original motor and the original transmission for 200 more. I got the LS6 El Camino (much rarer than LS6 Chevelle) 3 or 4 years later with the original motor/transmission still with it for 3200. Damn shiesters, robbin' hard workin' people on them ole' cars back then.;)

I'm real fired up on these two right now, after they've been baskin' in the dust bowl (my storage garage) for almost 20 years. The El Camino has the nicest paint on it now of any car I've ever owned, and the same guy has the Chevelle doin' it now. Since they're both the same color originally, I think they'll make a neat pair and wunna' those Barrett Jackson types would probably pay big bucks for em as a pair if I wanted to sell em...... I DON'T.

[triple dude]

Although I grew up around cars via my Dad, I didn't really start following old car prices (up thru the early 50's) until about 1971. At that time, the prices for those cars was steadily rising casuse the people who lusted for them when new, had reached the point in their life, where they had surplus cash to spend. Even though, I was still barely 20, I always had a woodie for a 1940's Cadillac convertble. At the time, the primo ones always seemed to be out in California and were about $2500. In the mid 70's, I saw the prices of tri-five Chevys along with old Corvettes take a huge leap. The west coast push was from a guy named Bob Wingate and I used to drool on his Hemming's ads. In the midwest, the guy driving up the prices was Richard Buxbaum. I remember going by his place in about 1980 and trying to figure out who would buy my left arm so I could buy a 69 bigblock Camaro with 7000 miles for $7000. Anyway, now the lesser old classic cars prices have pretty well stagnated although the high end models (Cords, Auburns, Duesenbergs, etc) still do well. I think as the babyboomers "move on", the high end muscle cars (L88's, Hemis, Ram Airs, etc) will still be the Duesenbergs of our generation and the next. The 396/325 Chevelles and other "basic" musclecars will flatten in price just like some of the lesser cars of the 40's and 50's. Just my opinion.

[heath brinkley]

Let's hope ! There's still some cars I'd like to have. I've passed on some good deals lately, cause I don't need to spend the money right now. Been spending every penny paying off our equity line (which we bought the house behind us and the condo with) should be paid by June. Then I'm spending money on my cars. I'd rather have 'em driving then sittin', it's depressing not having a hot rod for a daily driver anymore, gotta change that. Anyway by the time I get a couple of mine done I'd like to think there's still some stuff available for a decent price. Luckily I don't care about coded stuff or rare stuff. I'd tear a LS7 apart if I had it.

[Raceman]

If you think the other one was crazy, check this one out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=4614679025&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT

This car is an absolute rust bucket and not reasonably restorable without a re-body, so somebody's buyin' paperwork and a vin tag. It met reserve at 3 thousand, but is now over 13K with 9 days left. I'm guessin' the seller is like "holy crap". The crazy part of this one is, there are people re poppin' build sheets now, so if that's all these crazy assed bidders are after they could clone any SS for a lot less money if they've got to re body this one anyway. GM claims it has no records on Chevy stuff to document by Vin number which cars were High Performance, or Special High Performance (LS6) SS's, so a little forged paperwork and some motor stamping, which this car requires anyway, and somebody's 12K ahead by fakin' another SS.

[voo-doo_child]

Why did he take the original powertrain out of the vehicle?

Does it yield greater returns if you split the package, powertrain/body and frame?

Why would anyone want to do that? Must not have a true love for muscle cars.

[Raceman]

I'd guess it was probably just poor wording or maybe even a deliberate play on words when he said: "I do not have the motor or transmission for sale." My guess is that he doesn't have the original motor and it was probably long gone when he pulled the car off the mountainside, especially since the car was drag raced some and the old LS6's and other solid lifter high compression Chevy big blocks had a way of disintegrating when redlined continuously. I would say that the car would bring MANY TIMES the price with the original engine that it would if it was missing, and the engine without the car would be of limited value, and just a core for a restamp and cloning another car.
(my font changed to his when I cut and pasted his quote and I can't seem to change it without gettin' out of this response)

[Dave S]

You look better in RED.:D RaceMan you Been hangin' with the HIILLARY.:eek: :p

[Fast Fred]

well the hood looked ok, the rest looks like it's been under water, what a pile, no LS6, look like every thing bad that could happen to the "Hull" has.:cool: