Barrett Jackson

[patmckinneyracing]

Shop down here in Texas you'll find the car you want :wink: I found the car I wanted with all the options minus the hemi or 440 6 pack which are rediculous money to find anyway.

My mother lives up in maine near canada and I noticed that it is a pain in the arse to find a good car up there. Most of the good ones have already been picked off back in the 90's. That's why g bodies are popular up there cause they're the last ones still alive that collectors haven't snatched up. Saw one guy at a dealership trying to sell a 78 el camino for nearly 4k and it was a rust bucket with nothing special about it. Down south the cars last longer and there's plenty more for cheaper.

http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/1548106669.html
http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/1554897246.html
http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/1546285588.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/1554690138.html
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/1552345915.html

Here's a few cars. And plenty more I saw on there just couldnt list all of them

 

[83cutlassowner]

Shop down here in Texas you'll find the car you want :wink: I found the car I wanted with all the options minus the hemi or 440 6 pack which are rediculous money to find anyway.

My mother lives up in maine near canada and I noticed that it is a pain in the arse to find a good car up there. Most of the good ones have already been picked off back in the 90's. That's why g bodies are popular up there cause they're the last ones still alive that collectors haven't snatched up. Saw one guy at a dealership trying to sell a 78 el camino for nearly 4k and it was a rust bucket with nothing special about it. Down south the cars last longer and there's plenty more for cheaper.

http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/1548106669.html
http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/1554897246.html
http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/1546285588.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/1554690138.html
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/1552345915.html

Here's a few cars. And plenty more I saw on there just couldnt list all of them

My dad drives truck in texas alot and he's always finding nice cheap muscle cars and other toys like atv's for next to nothing. i wish i made a little more money so i could bring a few nice cars up north. he just got a used 06 arctic cat with under 1k miles for like $4,000. its amazing to see how much cheaper things can be found down there when its more common.

 

[RITTER]

Barrett Jackson is the finest of the finest cars available, you have to keep that in mind. A 9,*** orginal mile '87 Grand National is definitely worth $26,000, it was the last year the "Regal" Grand National was produced. The LeSabre Grand National did have a few different options than your standard LeSabre and there was only 117 produced, that is like the only reason that thing sold for $18,000 (I also thought it was hideous looking)
Now granted, I do think that some cars sell for way too much, but to the buy its usually priceless. If I had the money I would gladly pay $100,000 for a extremely low mileage GNX because it is my absolute dream car!

 

[jae]

On the one hand I hope I didn't start something bad; but on the other I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees something a little wrong, maybe distorted with BJA.

I agree that Mecum is about the best I've seen in terms of big auctions were the prices are what the car is worth, something Craig Jackson and Steve Smith don't seem to get. Who are they to stop the bidding to interject "This is a $100K car". NO, the car is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. They are trying to relive the stupidity of the 2002 - 2007 time frame. I mean, something is kind of twisted when a Camaro, Mustang or a Chevelle is more than a Ferrari, Lambo or something like that. Not trying to offend Camaro, Mustang or Chevelle guys - I like them too, just not $70 - $100K worth. Take the '93 Firebird that sold last night for 17 stacks. A 3.4L V6, automatic for $17K!! :shock: Can you say ripped off?!?!?! And now some fool is going to think they can get crazy money for theirs, "because Barrett-Jackson sold one for $17k!!". Ritter, while you do make a point, I don't think that car is in the finest of the fine catergory, and a lot of the others that went across the stage last night didn't fit that category either.

The 9600 mile (let's see, how many 1/4-mile trips is that ) GN wasn't too bad for $26, as a lot of GNs are still commanding top dollar but you can find them cheaper in as good of shape.

As many stated, you can find decent, I mean really decent, cars down south for affordable money. Hell, I picked up a great 65 Impala 1.5 years ago for not much money. And when I sold the '66 I sold it for affordable but decent money as well; I could've went the Barrett-Jackson route and asked for stupid money and may have found some idiot that would've paid it. So as Pat said, you just have to look for the deal. Happy hunting

 

[HurstOlds]

just saw a '87 GN with 9600 original miles sell for $26,000 and a '86 LeSabre Grand National FWD 1of120 sell for 18,000...the latter was ugly as hell might i add just thought i'd share that

I fell out of my chair when I saw this on TV the other day. I was watching it too. I'm not sure if the OP was saying that $26k was too much or too little, but I thought that was a fair price for a low mileage GN. Mid 20's is the going rate now for an '87 low mileage.

The annoucers were acting like d1cks the whole time both cars were on the stage. "Oh, another 20 years and this Grand National (87) might be worth something."

They didn't have a clue about the rarity of the LeSabre Grand National. They literally said that someone had to email them to tell them about that car and how rare or whatever it was. They were silent because they had no clue about that car. I have never even seen one before, so I was happy just to see it. Very clean cars, the forward tilt hood is fun too. I had a 4 door LeSabre from that era (same hood)

 

[HurstOlds]

Luckily we were able to get him down to 7.5 which isn't too bad, even though I could have gotten a completely restored car for that kind of money..

I got my fully restored 83 Cutlass for way less than $7500. Then again it wasn't restored back to stock.....it has a few go faster parts (455, TH400, Ford 9"). But it still has A/C and everything else a stock car had (including quadrajunk)

 

[DrRansom442]

On a lighter note:

a highly customized Plymouth Fury "Outkast" rolled thru BJ this last weekend, and fetched $58,300.00. I did some googling and found that this same car sold via Ebay Motors Dec 2008 for over $175,000.00 someone lost his *ss on that "investment"

 

[Larryg]

In a recent issue of Hemmings MuscleCar there was a blurb about a recent sale of a '69 SS Chevelle for $250,000. The seller bought the car 2 years ago for $1,200,000! Ouch!

 

[azmalibuwagon]

I went to the BJ auction last week, walked around all day looking at the cars and talking to the owners. a few observations:

Wanna be an investor in old cars? You'd better know what you're doing. Some of them were great, and no doubt worth a lot of money (how many mint 1952 Chevy's with 4200 miles are there around these days?), but there were a lot more that weren't really special at all. Most claimed to be rare for one obscure reason or another. I saw a few cars selling for under $30K that, if I had the cash, I would much rather own than a brand new $30K auto. Lots more that, price aside, would be fun to own and drive. Some of those old Buicks are really cool.

Lots of Camaros, Corvettes, a few El Caminos, plenty of Mustangs. The mid 50's Chevys are mostly highly modified now, so one that is restored or original is getting harder to find. Saw the Batmobile! The new one, not the one from the TV show- evil-looking thing with machine guns, supposedly street legal. Now that would be fun to take out for a spin.

A lot of these cars are brought in by professionals, in this simply to make money as easily as possible. They either buy the car, stick it in a garage for a couple years, and then sell it (these all smelled musty inside), or they buy a bunch of similar cars and fix them all up almost identically. They look pretty good and you might not notice this as a buyer, but when there are 8 mid 50's trucks parked side by side, all with the same theme and the same 3-4 colors, it's easy to spot.

Overall, I enjoyed the day, easily worth the 20 bucks to get in. Jeez, there was a lot of money exchanging hands.