Any thoughts on the B-J auction...?

[Glenn J Coleman]

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I can only imagine.......just like the lottery!................................but to spend high dollar on cars that can be built & enjoyed ..... way too many "originals" are surfacing!!!.......( 10,000 milers !!!...."ALL OF A SUDDEN! no 1 person anticipated the boom, the growth, the desire, or the investment!!!!!!! so these less than 200 mile a year cars are so far fetched it is sickening!especially in "immaculant" condition! all I am trying to be is a bit .... realistic! I know a few are there for sure seen some .know of a few ..... but even the "never been touched " cars DO NOT HAVE CHROME THAN BLINDS YOU! regardless off studio lighting again I am not trying to be offensive...but come on now lets be a bit "real" everyone on this site seems to enjoy cars..in some way lets keep it in check!!!!

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I saw you guys on TV.

Have fun, and bring me back a big block pacer!!

Anyone seen Matt Murphy??

[TimG]

I think there's still room for hobbyist out there, you just have to pick and choose your car carefully. If you want an 11,000 mile Z28, you'll have to pay dearly for it, but if you want a nice '70 Z28, you can have one for a fraction of that price. A very nice one sold locally for $40,000 recently. There are deals if you look for them and are open to a variety of cars. If you're willing to take a marginal car up to nice standards, you can find a buy, also. There are lots of guys on this forum that have cars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that are not opposed to buying a $20,000 car and having fun with it and making it a better car.
Heck, I bought a '72 442 on ebay not too long ago for under $10,000 and had a blast with it all summer. My wife drove it, it was the first car my youngest son ever drove, my other son would "sneak" it out for joy drives when I was working. I parked it right along side of cars worth 10 times what it was worth.
Charley, saw you "prodding" two bidders last night.

[Stefano]

Matt was on the stage last evening.

[427rcode]

IF YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE KILLER YENKO NOVA CLONE AT THE RUSSO AND STEELE AUCTION
ENJOY THE WEATHER AND THE SHOW

[njsteve]

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IF YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE KILLER YENKO NOVA CLONE AT THE RUSSO AND STEELE AUCTION
ENJOY THE WEATHER AND THE SHOW

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You mean YOUR car, the one YOU are trying to sell???? Gee we can't this a mile away since you have posted the same info on just about every topic on this site.

[GaryH]

By the way, did you guys notice that most of the bidders assistance people are waving around Pittsburgh Steeler Terrible Towels!

[sssteve]

Question:years ago I remember reading a magazine with an alleaged COPO chevelle.It had the "malibu" eyebrow moldings and rocker moldings with Le Mans blue paint and silver rockers.I heard that on Fridays auction there was a 69 COPO chevelle(yellow) with these same moldings.Is that correct?Could these cars be ordered that way?Steve

[Keith Tedford]

When our cars were ordered, the dealer wasn't exactly sure what was coming. We weren't even sure which 427 the cars would be coming with. By the COPO option price, we knew that it wasn't an L88 or ZL1. As for what body trim the car would have, we just didn't know until the cars arrived. I would think that the Malibu trim was just a factory office scheduling snafu. The trim package would have been scheduled prior to the start of manufacture so that the people in the body shop would drill all the holes and add all the trim studs. They would have no idea as to what drivetrain would be going into the car. I wonder if these Malibu trimmed cars were early COPO production? The VIN isn't shown on the B-J 1013.1 listing.

[Fhakya]

The situation w/ the 205K Z is a unique one...hence the premium.

-Never titled to a private individual (always dealer owned)
-Obviously the low miles (a mildly maintained time capsule)

That car caught my eye in late 1990 when I worked at the Champion auto about a block from Midway Chev. in St. Paul.

They had it on display in the showroom and I slammed on my brakes and pulled in to check it out. I was about 18 at the time and was just amazed to see one in that nice of condition.

205K+ is an insane amount of money to me but the demand was there for a car w/ such a unique situation. Remember, it shared the same underground garage along w/ the 66 SS396 Chevelle that commanded a 125K price tag.

Congrats on the acquisition Dan.

[Verne_Frantz]

Keith,
Fisher Body never drilled holes in body panels to add trim or fasteners, at least not to my knowledge. Those body panels were pre-"punched" before they were put in the jig to be welded or bolted together, according to the build order for that body.
I know bodies were "banked" at Fisher, then pulled out of inventory (granted, inventory might only last a day or two) when they were scheduled for a final production unit.
I hope JohnZ is looking at this thread, because he KNOWS how it was scheduled.
I'm only an amateur historian.....