Went see 308 for sale - Surprise collection!!!!

Busy as hell, but that's normal...

 

Well send some "busy" over here then!!

Signed,
Not busy at all.....

 

Enjoy it while you can my friend.

 

I think I'm done..

I don't think the Chinese will send any copper or steel BACK! LOL!

 

They will. When is the next time you're planning on buying a new car/dishwasher/durable good...

 

great story. if there were that many cars in the building and the only ferrari was a rough 79 308 then honestly that garage wouldnt have meant much to me. I rarely see pics of a Duensburg, I know almost nothing about old Rolls Royces, and old muslecars or britsh sports cars from the 50s dont get my bood pumpin either. I would have sold the entire collection and bought just as many Ferraris. Now with that hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, if I had my way, Id have a collection at least twice the size of Jay Lenos, except for one thing...90% would be Ferraris. The other 10...Lamborghni. You know how filthy rich people say they have so much money they dont know what to do with it...that would never be the case with me. I dont care if I had Bill Gates money. I think you all get the drift of what Id do with it.

Hey judge4re, are you really a judge. And whats your experience with Ferrari over the years?

 

As soon as my Ferrari leaves the Unemployment Office parking lot.....

My resume is so extensive, they only allow me two copies per day...it's bottlenecking my distribution!

 

You didn't have a camera?????

 

I judge concours events when no one else shows up.

Experience with Ferrari? I don't want to type that much, but I will say that I've had fun and hope to continue having fun with it.

 

Carguy,

You have a PM.

 

yes. cat out of bag = top cat

 

How true. And in the same vein, don't you just love those guys who do everybody a FAVOR by telling the whole world about some particular car or part on E-bay or elsewhere, thereby increasing the bidding competition by a 100 fold so that you and all the other true enthusiasts who keep track of such things on a daily basis can now attempt to outbid the competition that has now increased 100 fold due to their informative posting!

A true bargain hunter keeps track of E-Bay on a daily basis and prowls the fine print of Hemmings like a bottom feeder. It takes a lot of effort. The last thing a bargain hunter needs is for some buffoon to let the whole world know about some item, thereby undoing all the hard work that it involves to unearth and track such items.

 

From Horsefly:
"A true bargain hunter keeps track of E-Bay on a daily basis and prowls the fine print of Hemmings like a bottom feeder. It takes a lot of effort. The last thing a bargain hunter needs is for some buffoon to let the whole world know about some item, thereby undoing all the hard work that it involves to unearth and track such items."

so true. ebay aint for idiots no more....ahhh for 1998 again.

anyway heres a funny one slightly OT sorry

friends wanted to sell cycle fender BMW Frazer Nash about two years ago.
listed it in Hemmings for six figs, the experts at Hemmming left off a zero in the price, guess how many calls they got? funny but irritation for the seller and embarrassment for Hemmings.

 

e-Bay and other places. You'd be suprised what you can find by doing regular searches of out-of-the-way places on the Internet. Not to mention gems hidden in the local classifieds.

 

My best deal was through a Hemmings ad. About 10 years ago, a guy listed a giant batch of early Rochester fuel injection parts. I called about the one item that I really needed, and luckily that was the only thing he had left. He had sold EVERYTHING else to another guy for a very cheap price. So we negotiated the deal on my desired part. (a fuel meter for an early 7014360 unit.) When I called back to verify the shipping arrangements, he told me that the other fellow had back out of the deal and would I be interested in EVERYTHING??? OH YES I was!!! I bought it all. And after the stuff started arriving, he called and said that he stumbled across another complete 1960 fuel unit and would I want to buy it! OH YES INDEED! All told, I ended up with the makings of about 5 early fuel injection units thanks to the fine print in Hemmings.

And here's another Hemmings incident for you. I'm sure everybody is aware of the 4 MILLION dollar auction price for the 1930s vintage General Motors Futurama bus that sold at BJ auctions a while back. Well, back about 3 years ago, in one of the very obscure columns in Hemmings, there was an add listing TWO of these Futurama buses for sale. Project buses nevertheless, but if I remember correctly, the price was about $9,000 on one and $12,000 or so on the other. I marked the ad for future reference and called a few months later, but the phone had been disconnected. Little did I know that a few years later, they would be so desirable. I wish that I had called earlier!

 

I gotta start reading Hemmings!

 

Hemmings was better 10 or 15 years ago when it was missing all the color pages. It was strictly for the dyed-in-the-wool car buff who enjoyed spending a few hours plowing through the microscopic print. They seem to have started concentrating on the high dollar aspect of the auction world and the big money dreamers. The really good deals are long gone. And the supply of the old cars in the barns are drying up. The main swap meet here in Arkansas is a lot thinner of barn cars and parts than it was 10 or 15 years ago. Every redneck wants to make a killing by dragging some 1957 Chevy 4 door junker out of a barn and selling it for $10,000. And the pathetic crowd wants you to believe that a 4 door 1961 Ford Galaxy is a CLASSIC worth the big bucks.

 

Yep, the Barrett-Jackson syndrome has even hit the local car shows. I went to a local car show/swap meet here a couple of weeks ago, it was unreal what people were aksing in the for-sale section. Junk mid-sixties Impala SS's w/327/auto, bondo, missing interior parts, NOM, need total restoration for $12K. Chevelle convertible that someone had put SS stripes on for over $20K. On and on, no deals to be had.

 

good one Arlie

yes the markets become top heavy if ever...

sorta makes you feel like you arrived in San Francisco in 1851 (two years after the lode strike of 1849), when everyones trying to sell you gold for a lot or fools gold for a little less...oh well...as she turns...doesnt give us younger guys much hope.

 

You ever make an offer?

Just lowball him $15k and see what he says!

 

Cool story!

 

That sounds like a garage that I used to camp out in that had a lot of cool cars...