Unbelievable Barn Find Auction

Lawreston said:
Would you or Spike have any interest in a 1966 Austin Healey 3000 BJ-8?
It's been "in the family" since 1968(15,000 miles -- now about 60,000 miles).
Barely over 3000 miles on a new engine built by Healey Werks(Lawton, Iowa).
I've owned her since 1998, my father before that. Never driven in winter, always garaged. 2 days before the first snowstorm she goes into my hangar, doesn't exit until late April-early May.

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Wait... am I allowed to be interested, too?
 
To all those who think auction is no big deal, that the cars are junk, NBC Nightly news is doing a piece on it tonight. :rolleyes:
 
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Geico266 said:
To all those who think auction is no big deal, that the cars are junk, NBC Nightly news is doing a piece on it tonight. :rolleyes:
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That will just drive price up past any reasonable point. The actually collectors and restorers will now stay away in droves.
 
docmirror said:
That will just drive price up past any reasonable point.
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I doubt it there will be any cause-effect between such program and final prices.
You see these days many reality shows with cars/auctions, etc and nothing is selling extra expensive because of that.
 
olasek said:
I doubt it there will be any cause-effect between such program and final prices.
You see these days many reality shows with cars/auctions, etc and nothing is selling extra expensive because of that.
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Ooooookkkkkkk.
 
Haha awesome. 1st and 2nd place guys made errors at just the right times for him. A little wide... Poof. Passed!
 
denverpilot said:
Haha awesome. 1st and 2nd place guys made errors at just the right times for him. A little wide... Poof. Passed!
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Other than freezing your azz off, doesn't that look like a serious good time! It's the cheapest sanctioned racing you can do I think. About $2,000 buys you a race ready car. If I had to live out that way (trust me, I would have to be forced some way to live in that part of the world), I would so be into this!
 
Lawreston said:
Would you or Spike have any interest in a 1966 Austin Healey 3000 BJ-8?
It's been "in the family" since 1968(15,000 miles -- now about 60,000 miles).
Barely over 3000 miles on a new engine built by Healey Werks(Lawton, Iowa).
I've owned her since 1998, my father before that. Never driven in winter, always garaged. 2 days before the first snowstorm she goes into my hangar, doesn't exit until late April-early May.

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How much? I'd love to have another, I had one way back when you could pick them up for $2000; the prices I see on them now are astronomical. That was one of my favorite all around cars, so long as you didn't have to stop quick.
 
http://news.yahoo.com/vintage-chevy-auction-deal-low-mileage-gems-070908902.html

About 50 have fewer than 20 miles on the odometer, and some are so rare that no one has established a price. The most valuable, including a rare Chevy Cameo pickup, could fetch six-figure bids from collectors who view them as works of art to display or as restoration projects.

"To find this many new, old vehicles is unheard of," said Yvette VanDerBrink, the auctioneer coordinating the event. "It's like a white buffalo."


Preparations for the auction began in June, and VanDerBrink has taken calls from as far as Iceland, Singapore and Brazil. The two least-driven cars, a 1959 Bel Air and a 1960 Corvair Monza, each have one mile on their odometer. The oldest vehicle with fewer than 20 miles dates to 1958; the newest is a 1980 Monza with nine miles.

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I'm sure all this interest won't affect bid prices -- nah, you'll all get bargains, garr-on-teeeed.
 
What about the Chevette? Still in Spike's price range? I bet he has $20 stashed somewhere. ;)
 
Come to think of it, friend of mine bought a '79 Chevette, panic buy because he was convinced gas was going to go up to some astronomical price (like, maybe, $3.00/gallon). It was hardly exciting, but he neglected and abused that buggy, and it lasted a couple hundred thousand miles with minimal maintenance. Simple, decent car. It had the 1.6L gas engine.
 
I bought a new 1980 Tercel for the same reasons. Great car except for the itty-bitty wheels that routinely broke on potholes.

SCCutler said:
Come to think of it, friend of mine bought a '79 Chevette, panic buy because he was convinced gas was going to go up to some astronomical price (like, maybe, $3.00/gallon). It was hardly exciting, but he neglected and abused that buggy, and it lasted a couple hundred thousand miles with minimal maintenance. Simple, decent car. It had the 1.6L gas engine.
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SCCutler said:
My first Honda would not go through a car wash, because the wheels were so small, the frame got stuck on the guide rails.
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I may have found a used diesel Dually pickup truck. It'll have the same problem and is a lot more work to hand-wash. :)

A buddy sold his 5th wheel trailer and only has 100,000 miles on a loaded 2001 Dodge with the manual transmission. I already ruled out Dodge automatics, but if he says the right number... I can buy a lot of clutch parts and brakes for the difference between the used Dodge and a new Ford. And I also know who drove and maintained it.

Karen makes me drive all the time on road trips anyway, so I'm "over it" looking for an automatic that hasn't towed 300,000 miles before it hit the used market. ;)
 
olasek said:
This one did well, how about others?
I suspect many of them did not do nearly as well despite a very low mileage.
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I caught a little of it on TV the other night, I think they all brought BIG money, but I didn't get to see many go through, they were selling old junk in a field when I tuned in. I did set the DVR for the next showing, which is this week I think. Folks go absolutely crazy for these kinds of cars, reason goes right out the window when people think they are buying a piece of history. :dunno: I am hoping someone publishes a list of the vehicles, condition and selling price, I think it would shock a lot of folks. :D
 
I only checked the numbers for the Corvairs, which is the only car I know much about. All of them were over-bid about $1-3k including buyers premium and fees/taxes. As with Spike's 'vette desire, these were not the Corvairs that people wanted, which is why they ended up in the scrap heap of history.

If you want to get into collecting, it takes hours online, and driving around looking at the product. I had three Corvairs over the years, and none of these interested me in the least. Same with most of the rest of the stuff, but maybe someone got a deal. I doubt it, but maybe.
 
Anyone know what the 70 Chevelle Malibu with the damaged roof went for?


A lot of the trucks went for $20,000. Pretty good price IMHO.
 
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