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When does the Insanity "S-T-O-P" ???

There are a lot of people that have more money than they could ever spend. A LOT! Price means nothing to them.
 
I don’t take it personal but it does suck because if that car sells for let’s say 2 mill I’m just throwing that number out any idiot who now has any cuda is going to think that the cuda they have is probably worth 100k now at the minimum and it mentally raises prices and I’ll never be able to afford one lolz
Exactly!
100 percent correct...it destroys the Hobby/Passion
 
So true, but that cow has left the barn already. The internet, televised auctions, and folks with deep pockets and no tools, killed the hobby for most entry level people and it's snow balled from there with resto-mods, etc.


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Why should it bother you or I that a car we will never own is worth more than either of us will ever spend on a toy??? Just enjoy your little slice of Mopar & be happy.... Maybe you can win the Lotto & prove me wrong..

Good point 1 Wild R/T,
Honestly?
IF I had that kind of money?
I wouldn't buy it...
Nor would I buy a Ferrari.
I suppose I am just not "wired" that way...
Oh well... my loss?

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The super rich are making things difficult in all hobbies. Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet sold at Christie’s in 1990 for $82.5m, then the highest price for any painting at auction. I wanted to buy this painting but was out bid by $82,475,000.

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Yeah look at his face. Even he can’t believe that cudas that much

he looked pretty crapped out to me
 
nice to look at but the price is insane

going to an auction setting where people are preapproved
there to buy, have the money to buy

good for Frank & Dana's bank accounts
they get 20%, 10% from both the buyer & seller
unless it's a no reserve & I highly doubt it's no reserve

saw one real documented 71 'cuda 426cid Hemi convertible
1 of 4 IIRC in the US, it was a blue & black too,
black billboards IIRC too (can't remember if a 4 speed or not)
sell/sold hammered for like $3.5 MILLION
(American $$'s) last year
before the sellers & buyers fees,
another $350k on both sides, goes to Dana/Frank Mecum bank accounts
$700k for running it across the auction & advertising the sale
(good gig if you can do it)
unless Dan/Frank made them a special deal on fees
they are known to do, to get their piece of the pie
& the car sold, no matter what

I actually wonder how much of these cars are actually original parts
& not a bunch of resemblances of repop'd aftermarket resto-parts,
let alone real survivors
they're only org. once

some of these collectors, millionaires/billionaires
have more money than they know what to do with
it's stimulating the auctions & somewhat the market too

the real market has lil' to nothing do with any of that ****
especially pricing
especially the hoards/rusty hulls out in some field
some guy neglected for 4 decades, I'll restore it someday
& now is something possibly of some value,
but nothing like a pristine 1,000 pt concourse
or 'near perfect' & professionally restored car
with all org parts or NOS parts
or
that's 'feildcars', probably not some 1 of 12 or 1 of 1 cars, anyway
if it was it probably wouldn't be in a hoard or out in a field
rusting away to nothing, they know exactly what they have

those people are really the dreamers
 
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Remember, folks - $90 for plywood sheets. $60 for a 2x12x16' long. $5 for 1x4x8s. Food prices going up, as documented in my own personal spending habits. Fuel prices up on average 60% in the last 12 months.

We have to rethink "the dollar". Like, NOW. Printing trillions and trillions of dollars for all these "stimulus" packages (and their associated pork) is sending the value down the shitter.

Not gradually, either.

The cars aren't worth more.

The dollar is worth NOTHING.

We're going to be just like China - a billion yen to get a cup of tea.
 
Remember, folks - $90 for plywood sheets. $60 for a 2x12x16' long. $5 for 1x4x8s. Food prices going up, as documented in my own personal spending habits. Fuel prices up on average 60% in the last 12 months.

We have to rethink "the dollar". Like, NOW. Printing trillions and trillions of dollars for all these "stimulus" packages (and their associated pork) is sending the value down the shitter.

Not gradually, either.

The cars aren't worth more.

The dollar is worth NOTHING.

We're going to be just like China - a billion yen to get a cup of tea.

With the recent spike in everything, especially basic building supplies, the value of these cars jump as well.

add in rarity and the emotional response of wanting a bad *** ride, then figure in the effect of YouTube, Cable car shows and worldwide auctions. Prices might go even higher as there is a limited supply.
 
Is this guy C-R-A-Z-Y or what?
He also has a Daytona and a Ferrari?
Driving in crowded (Sunday afternoon) Chicago Traffic?
Insane
 
Whoever wins the bid on that 318 clone car will have only a tiny infinitesimal fraction of the wealth (before they make the purchase) of the top 50 wealthiest people on the planet. Ponder that thought for a couple minutes..

I also am well aware that my own car is worth absolutely nothing in comparison.

What I would really like to know, is if the Rallye wheels on this car were painted with Krylon Dull Aluminum from a rattle can. I am more curious about that than I am with what the winning bid will be.
 
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