I saw a guy on Barrett-Jackson pay $5 million for a car last night!!!

The car was Carroll Shelby's personal '66 Cobra Super Snake...427 dual supercharged, 800 hp. The same guy paid $600k for VIN 001 of the new Shelby GT500 Mustang which included the option to purchase VIN 002 at factory sticker!

It looked like all the bidders last night were fairly young to middle aged at most. Makes me wonder where I went wrong in life not earning that kind of dough.

More power to them if they can afford it. Even if I could have afforded it, I wouldn't have paid that kind of money...I would have accepted that kind of money but not paid it!

I watched it as well, The kingsnake is the last known one to exist. The other was built for Bill Cosby who sold it to another individual and he ended up crashing and totaling the car as well as himself. The fellow that bought it as Gunslinger stated also bought the first production of the GT 500 ($600K)to his specs and he picked it up at the plant.

It's unbelievable,what these people are paying for these cars,like you say too bad I wasn't independently wealthy,hind site is 20-20.I just have to save up for the improvements on my BABY,and do em when I can afford it

______________

C3VR Lifetime Member #93
 

It looked like a 15 year old bought a '69 L-88 for $240,000.

Yes, but as the guy from Pro Team noted just before the auction started, the owners of the last 62 were in the crowd and he hinted that he might be looking at that one for his next big project!

______________

I wanted a Corvette my whole life, but I never dreamed of all the wonderful people I would meet because of it!

Shouldn't you at least have a drivers license before you buy a vette like that?  That kid looked to be in his late teens to early twenties.  That's like some of the kids who buy these 1200cc crotch rockets at 15 or 16 and don't take a driving class.

Maybe he'll just look at it, or maybe he's the next Tony Stewart.

I agree, I wish I'd been born rich instead of so dam#$# good lookin'!

Thanks for the info 80Stroker

 

I remember as a kid listening to the Bill Cosby record (for you youngsters its big, round, black and vinyl) over and over about his experience when Carol delivered the Cobra to him. It was so funny, wish I still had it.

It'll go over 200 MPH,and Cosby said,"WAIT TILL THOSE KIDS IN THOSE CHEVY'S SEE MY CAR"  I,ve still got that album down in the cellar,in storage,

______________

C3VR Lifetime Member #93
 

I agree, I wish I'd been born rich instead of so dam#$# good lookin' too.

______________

Click on image for larger view!

Check my post in BJ thought to pounder.I'm pretty much through with all that crap.If all this hadn't started we could have bought that 69 Mach 1 428 SCJ drag pac for $15,000-$20,000.Don't look up to those people they are the ones that ruined what we had going.I hope they all lose there collcetive a##s like what happened about ten yrs or so when the bottom fell out.It will happen again but not so much that we can afford them.

Why I like the C3 crowd so much... most of us are hard working, made our money honest, genuinely nice people....

To me... Barrett-Jackson over the past couple of years has just become a bunch of people with too much money who just want to say I outbid you for that car and personally I think its a shame.  I'd like to think that if I had that kind of money that I would chose to do something much more beneficial with it.  I'd get more satisfaction out of buying a wrecked car for nothing and turning it into what I want, rather than dropping the kind of cash they do for something already done up.  It is entertaining though. 

______________
1977 Corvette EX-L48
383 Stroker, Holley MPFI, MSD Ignition, BTO 700R4, VBP Street/Slalom, Hooker Sidepipes with JCL Spiral Baffles, Corbeau A4s w/ Shark Bar and Simpson 5-Points, 17" AR TTII's, Kumho MX's

(click to see a bigger version)

I am with VTHokie

Okay I'll declare open season on Tux... an be the DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. Although I like to sling a wrench like most of you I can appreciate those who who don't. Most are decent guys n gals with deep pockets that got that way from workin hard. Just because they buy a high $$$ car doesn't mean they don't spread their money around to more charitable places as well.

I don't care for the HYPE associated with the BJ auction but I hafta admit that if ya have the dough an want ta spend it on somethin ya like go for it. Ya only go round once on this ball so enjoy it while ya can.

Me I'll just keep pluggin away. An if I someday find my nitch in da world you can bet I will buy a few more toys. Maybe not as high priced as those BJ cars but still respectable. Something maybe more along the lines of these beauties...:

67 LINK


69 LINK


60 LINK



______________

Tuxblacray: She's Back In Black! Check out my pics @ My Link


(Click on image to see a bigger version)

I couldn't agree more Tux. Besides, lots of the cars that are sold on Barrett-Jacson will go to museums around the country. Us "poor boys" will ultimately pay for them through our admission fees to those museums.

I have found over the years that Barrett-Jackson (and the like) has ruined the typical muscle car market for the greater majority of us with that "emotional bidding" we witness as some rich schmuck cannot stand to 'lose' on national TV and will pay whatever it takes no matter the true value of the vehicle he or she is bidding on...and that goes for Vettes as well! Nothing gets my shorts in a bunch quicker than watching idiots bid with loser mentality instead of automobile savoy.  Most of those bidding idiots haven't a clue what they have in front of them for a car.

______________

I dont wish ill will on to any of those folks at BJ. Friend of mine once said at dinner,"there are too many people with too much money running around".
I told him I call them "roll models!"
Just because someone has a few bucks does not mean he/she cheated others out of it. Besides how many folks do these people employ that wouldnt have a job?

Now I for one am glad to see these cars appreciated for what they are.
Classic pieces of American history.
Maybe more folks will restore and complete these fine automobiles from the barns and garages of America so more of them can live on for generations to come.
I also think its great that the more original the car the more $ it gets.
Again maybe we will see a few less "customs" and a few more "original" cars stay that way.

Yes it would be great to go see the Stones again for $25.
But them days are gone.

[QUOTE=jt's73]
Now I for one am glad to see these cars appreciated for what they are.
Classic pieces of American history.
cilrah2008-06-06 15:22:54

______________

MARK
LIFETIME MEMBER #117

Click here to see my new friend P-Racer
"Keep up the Pace"

[QUOTE=dnv]I agree, I wish I'd been born rich instead of so dam#$# good lookin'!
[/QUOTE]

______________

�����
My Link


MICK - C3VR Lifetime Member #113