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