http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/ Autoblog Comments for GM Futurliner rewrites Barrett-Jackson record books, hammers to $4.1 million http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/Currently the Barrett-Jackson website lists the sale at 4.32M which when adjusted for 8% commission reflects a 4M hammer price. See http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/bj06results.asp lot 1307.
There will surely be more information available when the SpeedTV Sunday coverage starts in the next few minutes.
It is probably a misunderstood bid or the person who bid 4.1M tried to wiggle his or her way out. Last night the buyer was reported, by Craig Jackson, that the new buyer was the same as the 1954 Pontiac Bonneville experimantal.]]>Jan 22nd 2006 2:53PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/It is probably not a late bid issue, as the higher bid (4.15M, 4.2M...) would most likely have have gone through.
I still think there was a 'finance' issue behind all this. Someone got in way over thier head and found a way to gracefully back ou.]]>Jan 22nd 2006 4:10PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
Check out my photojournal of my visit to B-J, with two days at Barrett-Jackson, and one night at the Phoenix Pavillions cruise night:
http://www.atascadero.name/2006_phoenix/

Awesome.]]>Jan 22nd 2006 4:11PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
http://www.atascadero.name/2006_phoenix



]]>Jan 22nd 2006 4:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/Jan 22nd 2006 4:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
More power to the person that did it, I may be jealous, but my jealously never turns negative.]]>Jan 22nd 2006 4:38PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/They also said that the Olds F88, sold last year for 3M$; The Pontic Bonneville, sold this year for 2,7M$; The Chrysler Elegance, sold for 1,1M$ (IIRC), all came from private collectors. ]]>Jan 22nd 2006 4:40PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/Jan 22nd 2006 5:51PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/Jan 22nd 2006 7:33PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/last year. As I recall, the crowd was dazzled last year by the sale
of a 1970 hemi cuda (red coupe, early production magazine test car)
for roughly $360,000 (from memory so could be off by a bit?). At the
time, that was supposed to be a record price. This year, it seemed
dozens of such cars hit that mark, with an astonishing $2 million for
a 1970 Cuda Hemi convertible, $410 k for a 1967 Shelby GT500, $486k
for a ZL1 Camaro, $700 k for a 70 Cuda Hardtop, $650 k for a 1971
Hemi Cuda Convertible, etc, etc., etc. It seems as if overnight the
Hemi Cuda has become the new Duesenberg, with Shelbys, COPOS, L88's, Cobra Jets, and all types of Hemis not far behind.

As a muscle car lover myself (especially 1967/8 GT500's and 1967 Corvette 427's!!), I can't help but wonder what these prices will mean. Will these cars no longer be driven due to their massive values? Certainly this bubble will burst soon enough like the Ferraris did in the 1980's, but how much more could these cars potentially bring before that happens?

Just wondering what any other muscle car fans think of this???? Any comments? Check www.barrett-jackson.com for all the results.]]>Jan 22nd 2006 7:46PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/Jan 22nd 2006 9:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
To see what an authentic restoration looks like check out www.Futurliner.com They really did their homework on #10 and it was done as a museum restoration project, not a commercial venture. In short, if the Futurliner sold at B-J was truly worth $4m, imagine what the far more authentic one owned by NATMUS should command.]]>Jan 22nd 2006 11:23PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
Nonetheless, congratulations to all the new, lucky owners o any of these cars.]]>Jan 23rd 2006 1:03AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
The only thing I'm hoping for is that if this keeps up, I'll be able to afford a duesenburg.]]>Jan 23rd 2006 2:24AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
The explosion of prices for 50's and 60's cars, especially muscle cars, is largely due to former "summer of love" boomers that are now very wealthy capitalists looking to relive their youth.

It will be interesting to see if an Celica Alltrac or Nissan 240sx or maybe a Prelude or Monte Carlo will go for 500k+ in 20 years. Or if a Supra will go for 1mil. For some reason, I don't think so... the gen x-ers don't seem as selfish and self-absorbed. But they are materialistic, so I could be wrong.

BTW, this is not a knock on muscle cars at all. There were some very fine and rare vehicles that came out of the those eras. ]]>Jan 23rd 2006 4:46AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
Having said that, some of the spotty quality muscle cars went for more than pristine 356's! Even more than for some truly nice and interesting rods. I mean c'mon, muscle cars may be the oxygen bar fad of today but a lot of cars that had value in my eyes only got bid up to just a little over what they are really worth.

As a commentor said above, I'm jealous but not in a negative way. If I was there with lots of money burning a hole in my pocket, I would have scored a fleet of cool cars that all together wouldn't have cost more than one quality muscle car. Doubly so for the speculators, we're probably at or near the ceiling of the muscle car values, time to get in at the bottom on the up and comers.

And I like 60's vette's as much as the next guy, but c'mon BJ, enough of them!!!

Congrats to all the buyers and sellers. Astounding stuff all round.]]>Jan 23rd 2006 8:32AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/bj06results.asp see lot 1309). Then just a few cars later, Elvis's old Lincoln limo (Lot 1316) went for less than $600k. I'm no Elvis fan, but my common sense tells me that those two figures should be swapped.]]>Jan 23rd 2006 9:34AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
"11. What is surprising is thinking of anyone paying a million for a Honda, Toyota, or Nissan in 40 years. They may sell well, but they are ultimately worthless."

Comparing a one of a kind Concept Vehicle to mass production autos? Terrible arguement, your bias is showing.
]]>Jan 23rd 2006 9:45AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/
A '70 Hemi 'Cuda is not a concept car. An LS6 Chevelle is not a concept car. They are both terrific examples of what homologation rules are for.

I would dearly love to see more stringent homologation rules for series that purport to represent street cars. (e.g. WRC, NASCAR) This would allow Joe Blow the chance to go out and buy something close to what he sees raced.

The last great homologated cars, IMHO, were the Ford Sierra Cosworths, Audi S1 and the like. About the closest thing today are the 911 GT3's, 360 CS, etc.

But is paying 2M for a Hemi 'Cuda as crazy as paying 500$ for 1 share in Google? All it takes is 2 people to want something and the auctioneer can laugh all the way to the bank. I think there was alot of hype put in to those cars and a lot of 'I will buy this car' emotion, getting people in way over their heads.

I think the SpeedTV annoncers said it right... "How much is that car worth? As much as anyone is willing to pay for it."]]>Jan 23rd 2006 11:02AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/01/22/gm-futurliner-rewrites-barrett-jackson-record-books-hammers-to/Jan 23rd 2006 12:59PM