Barrett Jackson

[FreeRideFrosty]

Anyone watching it?? Shelby Cobra 800HP "Supersnake" just sold for $5,000,000!!! :eek:

[FreeRideFrosty]

Haha.... and the car on the block now has my tires. BFG G-Force KDW's.

[Ponch]

I was watching it earlier and some car hit 500 k, can't remember what it was to save the life of me but it was orange...lol

[FreeRideFrosty]

I was watching it earlier and some car hit 500 k, can't remember what it was to save the life of me but it was orange...lol

Hemi Cuda.

[MX_KEVIN]

My boss bought a Hemi cuda from there last summer. We had to put it in a bubble to keep people off of it. Poor car...

[FreeRideFrosty]

Where do you work??

[MX_KEVIN]

At that time it was bensenvillemotors.com, now autoshowcase1.com. Same owners.

[FreeRideFrosty]

Wow. Pretty cool. What did he end up paying for it? Did he get it as a showroom piece or what?

[MX_KEVIN]

Its was close to 100k. Ya, it sat in the showroom for a few weeks. The guy they out bid ended up buying back from them for a few grand more plus shipping.:crazy:
I think there nutz sometimes. put out all that money to make a grand or two. talk about big risk...

[Meatwad]

wow thats crazy. i couldnt imagin doin that

[FreeRideFrosty]

Oh definitely. You need to have LOTS of money burning a hole in your pocket to risk turning a profit on any of these cars. I respect the guys who go out and buy their dream car.... but the prices are rediculous. I would rather go and build a car myself anyway. It would mean so much more.

[MX_KEVIN]

If your plan is to keep forever great, but to build to try and sell for profit, never happen

[Rawkfist_02]

I bet you guys didn't know this.
ALL cars that sell, each car has 8% fees go to the auction itself. So a 1,000,000 car gives the auction $80,000

[FreeRideFrosty]

If your plan is to keep forever great, but to build to try and sell for profit, never happen

Exactly. If I am going to pour endless hours and years into a car it would be for me. I don't think I would be able to sell it to buy someone elses car....

[Mnster]

The auctioneers get 8% above the final price.

[MX_KEVIN]

I bet you guys didn't know this.
ALL cars that sell, each car has 8% fees go to the auction itself. So a 1,000,000 car gives the auction $80,000

Yep...Seller pays the 8%, buyer pays some money also plus $500 for the pass to walk the floor and make bids IF you qualify. They want to know you got the dough before you take there floor space.
Not to shabby. the auction makes the $$$ at all ends. When ever they send the book of whats running for there next auction I like to finger threw it and let me tell you that book look like it would cost a few hundo to put together. They are not going broke thats for sure...

[MX_KEVIN]

And just to add when my boss goes there he's way out of his league. There is some REAL money there.

[FreeRideFrosty]

No doubt. The guy that bought that $5,000,000 cobra has bought at least 3 more cars......

[AddictedtoNITRO]

he owns a museam(spelling) in south west.
btw that cobra was probably worth double that.

[AddictedtoNITRO]

Yep...Seller pays the 8%, buyer pays some money also plus $500 for the pass to walk the floor and make bids IF you qualify. They want to know you got the dough before you take there floor space.
Not to shabby. the auction makes the $$$ at all ends. When ever they send the book of whats running for there next auction I like to finger threw it and let me tell you that book look like it would cost a few hundo to put together. They are not going broke thats for sure...

it's up to 10% this year I seen

[FreeRideFrosty]

That Cobra could be considered priceless. One of Two and the only one remaining, personally owned and driven by Carrol Shelby.... what more could you want. An absolutely AMAZING vehicle. I love the cobra's and always have, that one was on a whole different level though.

[AddictedtoNITRO]

your absolutly right frosty they really can't put a price on that car. You could tell carrol was hurtin a little also by his look. I have always been a ford guy and a huge fan of the amazing work that carrol shelby designs and it was a great accomplishment and says a lot for the shelby empire. Made me a little proud to be a fan

[DAVEC-NITRO-RS4]

I wanted to see more Camaros. A '69 Z28 went for $120k. There may be hope for my '72 yet!!

[FreeRideFrosty]

There is hope for any of the old muscle cars. The first car I will end up working on is my Dad's '71 riviera with a 455. Needs a carb, tune-up, paint, and a rear end and it should be set for a while. You cannot have a 455 with a non-posi rear end. I don't know what they were thinking when they built that at the factory. With the posi rear end these things end up pretty damn quick for a land-ridden boat. Rumor has it that I get the car when I graduate college... not sure if it's true or not though.

[DAVEC-NITRO-RS4]

GM had the bigblock 455/454 in just about anything in the 70's. My parents had them in almost every car we owned. And they all had open rearends.