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A $60 tip might not seem like much in Reno, but at a Taco Bell? A customer asked the manager if she ever gave anything away for free. When she handed him the entire meal for nothing, he threw her three Andrew Jacksons. The exchange was no more inexplicable than some of the deals going down at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center during the Hot August Nights (HAN) car auction.
HAN is a weeklong, self-professed celebration federal government airline ticket prices of rock-and-roll and cars. This year, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston federal government airline ticket prices and their paid friends (a.k.a. The Beach Boys) entertained Baby Boomers to the tune of $50 to $75 a pop. Participants who preferred metal antiques could watch a nightly federal government airline ticket prices procession of chromed and metal-flake machines cruising up-and-down Virginia Street.
Meanwhile, Silver Auctions put some 900 vehicles up for grabs. I say some because gauging the exact number of vehicles for sale wasn t easy. Towards the end of the auction, federal government airline ticket prices cars that hadn t met their reserve (the owner s pre-established minimum) were shuffled federal government airline ticket prices back and offered with no reserve (last bidder takes all).
Anyway, on Thursday, two collectors proved federal government airline ticket prices it only takes two people to make an auction. Both guys wanted a 1966 Shelby-American GT-350 fastback coupe so bad they were willing to make the winner pay through the nose for the privilege. The car s seller had stoked the fires by circulating a laminated sheet of paper listing the vehicle s VIN number and the names of all the former owners. The provenance cited the original owner an obscure (failed?) actor named Don Lococo- and the date when the car s color was changed to Wimbledon White with Guardsman Blue. It found a new home for $120k (plus six percent buyer s fee).
The battle marked the start of Shelbymania. A 1967 Ford/Shelby-American Mustang 500KR fastback went for $167,500 (plus six percent buyer s fee). Of course, both cars were original and correct which is auction speak for you can pay stupid money for this car and soothe your savaged wallet by telling yourself (and your wife) that you bought the real thing .
That said, thanks to well-heeled muscle car collectors, federal government airline ticket prices the pursuit of authenticity federal government airline ticket prices ain t what it used to be. Many of the muscle cars on offer were announced as tribute cars. It seems that clone and recreation didn t bestow proper respect on these meticulously modified machines; so tribute has become federal government airline ticket prices the mechanically correct adjective to describe muscle-car wannabes.
Well fair enough. Many of these tribute cars were indistinguishable from and better built than the original article. For example, Lot 174 consisted of a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro powered by a 425 horsepower, 427 cubic-inch Chevrolet V8 connected to a Tremec six-speed manual. federal government airline ticket prices It was announced as a Yenko tribute car; a paean to the performance guru who convinced Chevy to build a limited run of 427 Camaros so he could plaster them with stickers and sell them at an appropriate premium. Sure enough, Lot 174 wore a full complement of Yenko decals and badges.
Those who know about such things would have quickly scanned the Camaro s VIN number and unmasked the imposter if they somehow missed the six speeds atop the shift knob. And? The Yenko tribute Camaro federal government airline ticket prices was nice enough to fool most of the people most of the time. At $38,500, it was even something of a bargain.
Staying with the ersatz car theme, a couple of Dodge Challengers and Plymouth Barracudas Hemi tribute cars also went up for grabs. Again, because only anally federal government airline ticket prices retentive I mean, extremely knowledgeable muscle car aficionados would smell a rat, the cars brought around $75k apiece. That s not a bad deal for a non-factory Hemi-head look-alike, considering that Challengers and Cudas that were blessed with a factory-fitted hemispherical combustion chamber fetch high sixes and low sevens.
Woody wagons are hot as the beaches they once inhabited. One 1949 Pontiac station wagon sold at $51,250 with faux wood. The delicately hand-painted sides were so realistic that tapping on the painted metal (or attaching a magnet) was the only way to expose the ruse. As is the way of such things, the auctioneers forgot to share that tidbit. When the buyer discovered that he hadn t bought a real woody, he accepted his fate. After all, by his own admission, he d been drunk at the time. Can t blame that on the auctioneers, eh?
The 1955- 57 Chevrolets were the unofficial stars of the auction. It was buyer s choice, from stock to pro-street. Prices ranged from $25,500 for stock two-door sedans to $75k to $85k for fuellie convertibles. Then there was a reminder of a simpler, goofier time: a 1958 BMW Isetta. The one-door wonder sold for an astounding $38,500 ($40,810.00 with buyer s fee). Why? Like the Taco Bell transaction, it was just another example of random financial chaos, adjusted, federal government airline ticket prices as always, for market trends.
I am not a very sentimental person, so I often wonder why anyone in their right mind would collect such cars. The cool factor is high, for sure, but then most of these more pricey collector cars will not ever be driven or enjoyed. federal government airline ticket prices I would prefer a modern car modified to ridiculous power and tasteful esthetics, but to each their own. Now resto-modding that is something I plan to look into. :)
It is the memory these people want to catch back. I think someday my sons or grandsons will question my mind if I say I wanted to get an Integra Type-R from 1998, or an MR2 turbo from 1992, for $200k.
Well Pandabear, the 1999 Acura Integra Type R and the last generation Toyota MR2 are my picks for future collectibles. I use quotes, because the future is almost impossible to predict, especially in terms of what becomes collectible.
But several decades out, they ll also probably be Type R tribute cars, standard Integras slammed, painted the same bright yellow and with red Rs, supplied by some clever aftermarket types. If so, maybe real ones will bring $200K and tribute cars will bring what the Type R brought federal government airline ticket prices when new (or more).
federal government airline ticket prices It sounds weird to me too; but then, Hemi cudas with matching numbers going for $2 mill sounds pretty weird to me also. But after all, if you re 65 with a bad ticker and you re worth, let s say, $20 million federal government airline ticket prices in combined assets, the saying, It s only money means something.
Correction to last post, start of next to last paragraph: instead of the horribly mangled But several decades out, they ll also probably be Type R tribute cars, it should be But several decades out, there will also probably be . or maybe there also will probably be Type R tribute cars.
That s what I get for trying to write anything after driving home on the frreeway, 45 miles, in summer heat with the top down (on a loaner 2006 BMW Z4, nice enough for autocrossing perhaps, but with a tight suspension that kind of beats your filling federal government airline ticket prices out, when you drive over expansion joints). That trip came after also spending four hours in the midst of one man s salvage yard the late Harold LeMay whose family had Mather Auctions once again, auctioning off parts cars left over from grandad s collection (the world s largest privately held auto collection, according to the Guinness Book of World Records about 3,000 vehicles in museum shape and about another 2,000 parts cars, left from the restoration of the former). There might be another piece in that, after all.
For around federal government airline ticket prices 50 years, a super nice old car or custom federal government airline ticket prices car was worth about what a new average car cost. This ratio held for nearly 3 generations. Most of those years, that price was about what it cost you to fix the old car up not including labor. So building one yourself to sell was rarely anything other than a losing proposition. I am referring to the more desirable of normal federal government airline ticket prices cars. Old 30 s Ford s and Chevy s that sort of thing.
The equivalent in those older cars, and up into the 60 s Muscle cars seems to suddenly have escalated into a much higher bracket. Maybe it is because more car people buy them rather than build them lovingly in their garage.
Over the years the old car market also seemed a trailing economic indicator. Old car prices would always spike up a bit for the 6 months or year after a big stock market downturn. Then be followed by a stagflationary period as the economy improved. By this I mean prices federal government airline ticket prices would be up and go up more yet few sales of the cars took place.
I think this happens when people pull money out of investments they are unhappy with, and wish to buy something real. And some small number of those buy old cars. Seems a safe investment, federal government airline ticket prices something you can see and hold, and brings up memories of better times in their youth.
I think all this fits the current price of old cars rocketing upward. Why it is so extreme this time, not sure, a few ideas come to mind. What worries me is what does this signify for the economy in general? Bottom line is supply federal government airline ticket prices and demand. The supply is limited, federal government airline ticket prices and the demand can be and is pretty large. Hence the appearance of tributes, clones whatever you call them.
Want to see this for yourself in 30 years? Here s some advice federal government airline ticket prices to all you whippersnappers(anybody under 35) . Buy a Crossfire SRT6 roadster(less than 500 made).I bought a new one for 38k.Don t mess with it and don t beat the crap out of it.
Its all a question of want you want vs how much dough you got I`d love to have a 57 chevy rag .Reality tells me to stick with my 2000 FIREBIRD drop top I can afford to drive it, insure it ,it fits my budget and it fits in my garage
Not feeling the love with this. I do appreciate custom cars but do not appreciate the muscle cars of the 60s. Back when I was a young punk back in the 80s ;) you could have had one of these for literally dirt because they were just old ca