[tom406]

With all due respect to the new owner, I wouldn't appraise the red car for $40K unless somebody held a loaded gun to my head.

I will say that Mr. Holub is in a unique position to get that kind of coin. I think of it as the "halo" effect of a nice collection. When enough visitors are intoxicated by the quality and size of a desirable collection, a few people will pay up to get a piece of it, even if its one of the lesser players. (You and I have seen this phenomenon in effect locally, have we not, Jim?)

Finally, the conspiracy theorist in me has to ask if a third party can verify all this. After all, Marlin has named a theory after Mr. Holub about how every Yenko sale must be reported to be higher than the purchase price, whatever the reality. And it must be said that (yenko) supported this theory in that semi-nasty Yenko Deuce perceived-value thread a while back. This red Deuce was apparently becoming the black sheep of the Yenko Marketplace, with its last purchase reportedly occuring as a strategic buy to curtail public sales of Deuces at the "too low" price of $25K.

I hope my tone isn't too argumentative. I'm probably a little defensive, because this scenario makes it look like our dealership left our customer's money on the table.

So anyway, lets keep this thread constructive. If anyone needs to send me some hate mail, do it via the post office the way its supposed to be, on blank paper covered with letters cut out of magazines. (Not Muscle Car Review though, they don't make those anymore!)