When I look at what some cars sold for at this week's Barrett-Jackson auction it just blows my mind. The Harley Earl F-88 (Olds' Corvette) one-off concept went for over three mill. Here's some other shockers: 1953 Corvette $594,000 (with only 3 miles on the speedo), the matching 2003 Corvette $297,000 (VIN# matches the '53), 1970 Hemi Superbird $307,800, and a FAKE '71 Hemi Challenger went for $101,520. A faker! There's just too much money in classic cars anymore. I guess there are a lot of rich baby-boomers that want their youth back.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ebp2k2 @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
i watched it, it was crazy...
the guy started crying after winning the auction.
jebus. >.<
Robert @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
Probably started crying cuase he realized that he just spend 3.2 mil on a car!! Not to mention that he had bought something like 6 others BEFORE that one!
laserwizard @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
I felt proud when I saw that car appear that I knew what it was and its significance before the SpeedTV crew stumbled through the description. That was a fine auction and I was happy that that beauty will be in a museum where lots of people will see it instead of in some private dude's collection gathering dust until it can be resold for a profit. I love private collections, mind you, but a car of this history shouldn't be just one person's collection IMHO.
Brian Vermette @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
I watch the auction too, it was crasy, but the guy who purchased this car was just the bidder and the cars he bought is for a new car Museum in Colorado. He purchased 5 cars thursday to saturday for the new museum. What a bid including $240,000 commission.
Kurri @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
How can you have a FAKE Hemi Challenger?
qcomdrj @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
Uh, simple. You take a Challenger that didn't come from the factory with a Hemi. You put a Hemi in it. The numbers don't match, it is fake.
mjg @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
Brian,
Do you have any more information on that museum - like where in colorado, when it will open, etc?
Darren @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
How about this one:
1955 MERCEDES-BENZ 300 GULLWING 'RECREATION' $264600
Over a quarter-million for a fake gullwing!!!
Darren @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
How about this one:
1955 MERCEDES-BENZ 300 GULLWING 'RECREATION' $264600
Over a quarter-million for a fake gullwing!!!
AutoMuse @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
I would cry too if I just spent $3 Million on a car. I felt sorry for the 1958 Chevy Corvette with the retractable hardtop that ran immediately after what I now call THE CAR. The Speed Channel broke for ads right after the sale of THE CAR and they lost a lot of momentum, as a result. OK, so other than the retractable hardtop, the car was not extraordinary, but I just think that if we had gone straight to the next sale, it would have brought a good deal more than $315,000 -- there was that kind of buzz going on.
As to the price of THE CAR, don't forget, there's a sell fee on top of the $3.24 M price & buy fee. Yep, Craig Jackson has to be a very happy guy at the moment. I wonder if he's come back down yet.
Kevin @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
I suspect it was purchased for the discovery channel owner (John Hendricks). Since the museum is being built by his construction company in the VERY SMALL town in CO where he has a 27,000 sqft home.
Link to a some museum info
http://www.gtwy.com/Gateway_Construction_WIP_gtwy.html
His house....
http://www.gtwy.com/Gateway_Construction_West_Creek_Ranch_Main_House.html
Kevin @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
Looks like I was right.... just ran accross this story which confirms it
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2005/0002942076&EDATE=
Kevin @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
Looks like I was right.... just ran accross this story which confirms it
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2005/0002942076&EDATE=
lingsheng @ Dec 18th 2005 10:30PM
I watch the auction too, it was crasy, but the guy who purchased this car was just the bidder and the cars he bought is for a new car Museum in Colorado. He purchased 5 cars thursday to saturday for the new museum. What a bid including $240,000 commission.