
I'm in pain
#1
Posted 09 October 2017 - 02:59 PM
But the real killer is to see what '60s dune buggies are getting. Back in June a well-equipped one brought 68 grand.
But at Monterrey a very plain Meyers Manx RTR got 58 thou., and it was only a condition 3 car. A condition 1/strong 2 Jaguar E-Type was only bid to 60 gs. In high school my crew and I built about a dozen buggies to sell to other kids in the area. I guess I should have kept a couple.
#2
Posted 09 October 2017 - 03:28 PM
Same thing with the DB5-5-6 Astons. In the timeframe metnioned above, running cars in decent shape were $10k or less. And, they're into the stratosphere in terms of pricing.
Gregory Wells
Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap
#3
Posted 09 October 2017 - 03:37 PM
Prices of all this stuff is from baby-boomers retiring and trying to relive the '60s glory years or people with so much money that they don't care and it's like a "mine is bigger than yours" competition. It will all slide back when reality strikes.
#4
Posted 09 October 2017 - 09:52 PM
I'm not sure of the actual quote, but "God must love stupid people, because he sure made a lot of them" is an acceptable approximation.
I am not a doctor, but I played one as a child with the girl next door.
#5
Posted 10 October 2017 - 03:22 PM
I think the peak in 190SL prices has to do with there being so few left. Rarity usually drives collector car prices, and
if most of the examples have rusted away, the remaining cars will get more money. I restored two 190SLs and a 280SL.
All had major rust, with the 190s actually having door closure problems due to chassis sag. The bills well exceded the
value of the cars at the time, but back then the owners were more interested in having showable cars and weren't so
interested in flipping them for a profit. We installed a Datsun five speed in one of the 190s, and that actually made the
car a little more interesting to drive. Oddly enough, that didn't hurt the selling price of the car several years later. It
sold for about the same as others selling in that same time frame.