WOW! 300k+ Chevelle on Barret-Jackson (look at paint?!??)

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imported_fireberd350

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After seeing this car sell for over 300k I looked it up. This is the second LS6 car I've seen for sell for over 300k in the last year (the other being on eBay). Anyways, no doubt one of the signature muscle cars of ALL TIME.



Anyways, take a look at the pics...specifically the real quarter shot:eek:



http://www.barrett-jackson.com/events/scottsdale/vehicles/cardetail_list.asp?id=180174







I know the paints VERY old, but c'mon for 300k at least get the swirls/holograms out:o





Bad *** car, none-the-less....(worth 300k, not in my opinion).
 
I could have bought one in 1981 for $4100. Numbers matching, frame of restoration, M-22 Rockcrusher, 4.10 posi, black with silver stripes. Just didn't have the money and really, who knew they'd be worth so much back then?
 
do u guys think there are any production cars from more recent years that will fetch those sorts of high prices 30 years down the line?



right now the cars are built so poorly in comparison with those old muscle cars, i cant imagine such appreciation.!
 
I wouldn't say newer cars aren't built as well but most just don't have the personality and style of musclecars.
 
99ITR_SC said:
do u guys think there are any production cars from more recent years that will fetch those sorts of high prices 30 years down the line?



right now the cars are built so poorly in comparison with those old muscle cars, i cant imagine such appreciation.!
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No, I have to agree.
 
This is my first time watching Barrett-Jackson after joining Autopia. Wow! I can't beleive the poor presentation on some of those cars. Swirls galore! I'd do a better job of detailing my own car for sale than some of these guys that show up with 6 figure cars. You would think that they'd spend a few $$ or hours getting the paint ready. I look at it this way-if a car looks like crap from the outside (swirls), how was the rest of it taken care of? It's not that the guys selling/buying $100,000 cars couldn't afford to have them polished-it's that they don't care enough to do so.
 
99ITR_SC said:
do u guys think there are any production cars from more recent years that will fetch those sorts of high prices 30 years down the line?



right now the cars are built so poorly in comparison with those old muscle cars, i cant imagine such appreciation.!
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I wouldn't agree that today's cars are built poorly in comparison. I think the reason that these cars are going for so much at auction is all the baby-boomers with too much money, who are trying to relive their youth, when these were the cars they used to drool over.



I highly doubt that in 30 years the situation will be the same.
 
3 60's special Chevy Muscles Cars seating in their own garage out back. :bounce



"do u guys think there are any production cars from more recent years that will fetch those sorts of high prices 30 years down the line?"





In 30 years a slammed Honda Civic with all the bells, turbo, bolts-ons, wild paint jobs, 20 speakers and video monitors might. ;)



Seriously, the Buick GN and the early 90's SLP non-massed produced items with matching numbers and no after-marketing junk add-ons will pull good $$ in just 10 years.
 
OK, I'll be contrary regarding the condition of the paint :D If *I* were gonna spend that kind of money on a car like that, I wouldn't want anybody else removing any paint before I got it. *I* would want to be the guy who made all those type of decisions.



Today's cars going for that kind of money? Not unless they come up with something that has some real personality. Those of us who asctually owned muscle cars when they were new (or had parents who did) know that, *really*, most of them weren't all *that* great performance-wise and they sure weren't well-built (rust was a huge problem, for a while Chrysler put the front seatbelts in upside down, etc. etc.). But as ScottWax said, those cars have *style and personality* and they harken back to a certain (more simple) era for which a lot of people are nostalgic, even people who weren't even alive then.
 
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< Insert drool smiley >
 
The only muscle cars in recent years that I could halfway see reaching that status are:



1989 Turbo Trans Am

The first Formula Firehawk

1987 GNX

454 SS

F-150 Lightnings

1987 Buick T-Type

Grand National

'96 Impala SS
 
Nice I see the LC2 (GN engine) made your list 4 times!



The 92 firehawk, 87 GNX will be "the" collectible cars of the future. The 89 TTA, GN's and T's, and impy SS are up there but not in the same class. I also have a feeling 30 and 35th anniv. T/A's will pull some good money in.



Due to it's extremely low production I would assume the Cobra R would be highly collectible as well.
 
ScottWax

a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle Super Sport 2-Door Hardtop with Ansen Sprints.....very nice, very nice indeed.
 
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