The bottom line is the car is sold, it was a legitimate purchase done with a no reserve auction, and the results could have been the total opposite.. the seller took a risk, as did the buyer, and both are happy. It's easy for everyone to ridicule and analyze everything a week after the auction, fuss over detail/replacement items, nit-pick, speculate, and try to somehow relate it to their own personal cars that have been sitting in the garage the whole time this Z was on the block for sale with no reserve....but the fact remains that the buyer and seller are both happy with the end results. B-J is a unique situation for a buyer in that regardless of what he pays, there will be 500 experts in the peanut gallery afterwards to comment on the sale, and why the seller/buyer were smart, foolish, etc. I know i would much rather buy a car privately and spare myself the intense scrutiny of people that were in no way connected to the sale. My thoughts are that many cars were sold for what seemed like an exuberant amount, but there were also many cars that sold for prices that were surprisingly low... just depended on who wanted what, and who they were bidding against... as well as who happened to be around when a particular car came across. If you ran the same 900+ cars through another auction this week, many of the results would be completely different, and everyone would be all up in arms about the selling price of a different group of cars. JMO.
