Barrett Jackson.....

[427king]

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The buyer told me the seller would not talk to him about documentation.

[/ QUOTE ] If he had it, why wouldnt he talk about it??? Im sure if it was a legit car it would certainly never go for 60K . Nor would the seller let it go for 60K when it previously did almost 300K. Cmon....

[ssl78]

I just went back to the spring Mecum auction and found the L89 Chevelle that sold there. I was misinformed the car at Mecum had white interior with a white stripe.

[Belair62]

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I don't look at Carroll Shelby as having "hung the moon" but he sure as hell beat Ferrari's ass in 1965. For that alone he is a real American hero in my book.
That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
*I don't own a Shelby product. Wish I did!


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99% would agree !!! A true legend

[MGINLA]

I did not see any documentation and the buyer did not see any. So I do not know if it even exsits. The buyer knew nothing about Chevelles or the car. He like it and when the bidding droped from 70k to 60k he decided to jump in. He also was from FL and knew the seller (buy back?). He wanted know about any books to help him learn more and indicated he wanted to keep it. For the condition of the car it seemed like a good buy. It had some issues and I am no expert, but they were minor.

[GRB]

CJ - Being very interested in those cars 20 years ago and a member of the Shelby club and all that goes with that 'Blue Oval' to the core bunch, I remember things that I can't prove w/o some research BUT....CS was caught with his hand in the cookie jar more than once. The so-called missing Cobras, may have been some Mustangs too, was proven to be a scam which CS was intimately involved.

Just like people now build bogus, clone, recreation,
whatever you call them, Yenkos, people wanted Cobras. CS tried to stop them all and when he couldn't evidently wanted what amounted to extortion rather than a reasonable fee.

Remember that was 20 year ago. No Internet and no Google. This is what I remember from the newsletters of the day.
I do recall at the time the real owners absolutely hated the copycats. Visceral hatred. That may have changed. Would be interesting to know.

[TimG]

We just drove back to Austin from Phoenix, hit some snow in Tuscon. The low VIN Camaro sold for $69,000 and they had $60,000 in the car from what I heard. Probably a break even endeavor for them. Wish I had noticed the "N" in the engine stamp, how interesting.

Real cars with real paperwork and real motors did well. On Sunday, the original owner green '69 400 horse Corvette went for over 100K and the '72 LT 1 with gobs of paperwork (real) also went for over 100K. I was amazed by the number of cars that were advertised with real paperwork, but the paperwork was not available for viewing with the car. We were anxious to look at some specific cars advertised with a window sticker, but none was to be found and owners were not to be found. I'd have to assume that the paperwork is not real in these cases. I did see some fake paperwork being presented with some cars. They did not qualify the paperwork as "original" but the description said the car had a window sticker or some other paperwork. This to me implies a real one. Let me tell you that if I brought a car to this auction that had an original window sticker, I'd blow it up and present it on a billboard so it could be seen from across the parking lot.
Yes, there were some good deals. After the cameras went off on Saturday the place got very quiet and the guys I came with bought what I consider to be one of the most original 1,800 mile Hemi cars on earth at a very, very respectable price. I would imagine the seller anticipated two times what this car brought.

[Paul D]

The car Tim mentioned that we bought is a 1966 Hemi Satellite automatic with 1800 orig miles, Citron Gold with black buckets. It was lot 1342 and we paid 143k including the juice.

We didn't look it over to carefully before we bought it, in that it went across at about 11pm Saturday night, but later we crawled though it in a lot of detail, along with a few "hemi guys" that were around. This car is most unmolested showroom original that I have ever seen. The only things that seemed to be changed from factory new were the battery, exhaust, and tires. The blue streak original spare and jack appeared to never have been out of the trunk.

It spent 28 years in the Macroder (sp) Museum in Phoenix, was purchased new in Florida, and when the museum was dismantled went to a Ford collector in Washington around 2002, who traded it in on a new Ford GT last year. After we get a chance to sort out the names of the owners, we may need some help in tracking them down. It came with an original build sheet, and the fender tag is there.

Does anyone know this car??

[Paul D]

By the way, I also got that '64 Mercury R-Code at B-J. Looks like a nice original with all factory docs. Anyone familiar with that one? Lot 1020. I know......so much for downsizing the collection!

[Mr70]

Paul D
I would like to see and hear more about that 66 Hemi Satelite in the future.
Maybe a members rides feature?

[TimG]

The car looks like it left the factory last week, amazing.