$200K 1969 Z-28

[budnate]

side note- having worked at a Chevy dealer as kid in the 80's, for the most part the goons that twist the wrenches were not car people it was just a job and somehow they stuck at it over the years and the older they were the less of a car guy they were and they could care less about how neat a piece they were working on, I was in heaven...

and most were more than happy to pull a perfectly good part and toss them to get a little more time out of the ticket.

I can see all the items changed on this Z no problem, as it was probably pulled out of the basement or where ever and was to have anything changed that looked bad...I did not look at the pedal pad wear so I will not go there.

we had many old customers that would swing in yearly and just say do what ever it needs..and boy did they...

[Charley Lillard]

Exactly...

[budnate]

one more side note- this is a little off the subject but I had a flash back....being a poor kid working at the dealer...we did some things that were not exactly cool...when a nice clean muscle car came in..well we switched stuff off them onto our cars...little things that made our cars more correct and no one would care anyway...well I remember trading the deluxe pedals to get the stainless trim in one car for my base stuff plus the rubbers were nice and not worn on the corner of the brake pedal... and being I was pretty tight with a certain boss, I had access to things and places not many did...so maybe the lot lizard did some switcha roo action...been known to happen...

[nuch_ss396]

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...we did some things that were not exactly cool...when a nice clean muscle car came in..well we switched stuff off them onto our cars...

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How scarry is this? Ever wonder if parts were switched
with lesser quality parts ( non-high performance )?

I recently took my Cobra in for some work. When I got the
car back ( in two days ), the transmission was grinding and
it honestly felt like another box. Now you did it! Got me
thinking those bad thoughts about dealer service
technicians.

[budnate]

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...we did some things that were not exactly cool...when a nice clean muscle car came in..well we switched stuff off them onto our cars...

[/ QUOTE ]

How scarry is this? Ever wonder if parts were switched
with lesser quality parts ( non-high performance )?

I recently took my Cobra in for some work. When I got the
car back ( in two days ), the transmission was grinding and
it honestly felt like another box. Now you did it! Got me
thinking those bad thoughts about dealer service
technicians.

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what year Cobra???? when I had mine last year I heard all kinds of bad things about the newer 5spds and how little banging they took before they were grinding gears...guys were even going after Ford legally about it on the Stang boards...the sad part is you probably have the orig box in it but the lot lizard or the mechanic went around the block in it and punished it...you couldnt make me take a perf car to the dealer if I owned one...been on and in and seen to many banzi runs in cust cars...

hey that was fun..go park car..hey Fred you wanna drive a real fast Cobra...yea...well that green one in the corner is the fastest one I have ever been in...no sh*&...10 mins later..varoom out the gate it goes...

sorry if I am making you feal bad...some times the truth stings a little.

B.

[camarojoe]

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.

[hvychev]

I think that about covers it. Case closed.

[Jeff H]

And don't forget, it takes 2 interested parties to run up the price. So even if the winner didn't contniue to bid that high, the 2nd high bidder was willing to go almost as high. Supply and demand.

[SamLBInj]

Sometimes things make you say hmmm ....Now imagine if me and Tony (Mr.T) owned a dozen or so 69 Z/28's between us and we took one and bid the hell out of it at BJ, all the way to 300K, then everyone who owns one now thinks his or hers is worth that or a percentage of that price depending on how thiers compares. Now me and Tony have 11 more of these hot little cars that are worth 5 times as much as they were a day before. No better exposure and what a marketing gimick. All for the small fee of the premiums. Better still if some drunk runs the price up to more than you counted on and he gets stuck with it....Just a point to ponder here....

[Jeff H]

Auction results have nothing to do with a car's listing or selling price though. Auctions happen at the spur of the moment. We could all list our 69 Z28's at $205K now and I bet 99.9% of them won't sell.