Don't really know where to put this so I reluctantly started a new thread. Coming to auction at Russo and Steele Scotsdale. As the ultimate high mark in muscle car stupidity in the recent bull market, this should be interesting. News flash muscle car devotees, they're bloody rare because who wants a bloody convertible drag car? Clearly there were only 14 lunatics in the whole of America back in 1970! Rare doesn't make a stupid car "special" 40 years later IMHO. http://www.sportscarmarket.com/news/2652-1970-hemi-cuda-convertible-to-cross-the-block-at-russo-and-steele-scottsdale
I expect it will make good money, the following for muscle cars hasn't gone away, just got got bruised a bit. At the popular open air car shows you find in many US cities, original muscle cars turn heads and get respect. You can still buy new cars in the US that drive worse (Mercury Marquis anyone?) and an 11 second street car is always going to be entertaining in a straight line!
Oh yeah, Pap the mod can chuck it in there. Those things amuse the hell out of me I must admit. Americans can be a bit odd at times
I reckon it will be at least 30% off its peak. The Americans are very patriotic as we all know, so it doesn't surprise me that their home grown stuff is respected. I think barring a few rare exceptions, the muscle cars are almost universally hopeless to drive. This Hemi Cuda convertible might do an 11 second 1/4 on paper; but I reckon you would struggle to keep the thing in your own lane on the strip......... Flex, baby flex, the thing would track like a sidewinder snake !!!!
there was one as the drive car in that Don johnson show 'Nash Bridges" Image Unavailable, Please Login
I think ,god knows why,a lot of money for a couple of decades. Hey my father owned a GTO lol. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I'd rather have the car,all 6 million dollars worth. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I had friends from Belgium and Germany enter the Russo & Steele auction in Monterey, they lasted about a minute before they walked out. Their auctions are something else.
Just the way the whole thing is conducted. The relentless undecipherable gibberish that pours out of the auctioneers mouth. How the car on the block is parked in the middle of the audience with people pouring all over the car, opening the doors, sitting in the seats etc while it is being auctioned. It really is like Hickville in there.
That's an A grade collectible car. Gotta consider that America is the largest collector car market in the world ( plenty of buyer with $$, even now) and they love their domestic muscelcars more than anything else. This car is rare, it's a convertible and has a '426 hemi, and that pretty much means that a lot of people would sell their firstborn to buy it. Maybe the price will be lower, but this will car will always do well. You comments on the practicality or logic of an 11 second convertible are spot on, but it doesn't affect the price or desirability. M
Yup, it's an A grade collectable for the reasons you stated. It's still a ludicrously conceived parts bin 'option special' that redefines automotive stupidity for me. Wouldn't buy one in a million years
