Cool to see Gene Winfield on B-J !!!!!    REMEMBER    THIS PHOTO???




GENE WINFIELD  APPROVES OF CANADIAN PONTIACS!!!

ya thats what i thought

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       Ron Pratt pays $300,000.00 for 2011 Mustang 5.0 412 hp Pace car!!  He paid 1 million for 1st Camaro..    Carl Edwards was there  (nice guy)  With reg pay, and endorsements, he makes Millions per year... He throws in 10g for a bonus  ??  must be me, but thats like, me being there, and throwing in $100.00 ...

 

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-- Edited by 427carl on Saturday 23rd of January 2010 09:18:30 PM

I Bet it cost way more than that to Build !!

57poncho wrote:

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57poncho wrote:

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I know its a Dodge but its made in Canada.

here is a link to there web site http://desertspeedshop.com/

Barrett-Jackson Lot: 1311 - 1956 CHRYSLER CUSTOM 2 DOOR SPORT WAGON

Lot Number: 1311
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Auction: SCOTTSDALE 2010
Sale Price:
Year: 1956
Make: CHRYSLER
Model:
Style: CUSTOM 2 DOOR SPORT WAGON
Exterior Color: REVOLUTIONARY YELLOW
Interior Color: BISQUE
Cylinders: 8
Engine Size: 5.7 LITER
Transmission: AUTOMATIC
Summary: The car that Chrysler never built. What could have been the predecessor to the Magnum. Full custom all-steel wagon with over 11,000 hours of labor and hundreds of custom designed parts. Extensive magazine documentation and winner of top industry awards.
Details: The only two door 1956 Chrysler wagon in existence. HEMI powered. Ridler Great Eight Winner, Winner Chip Foose Design Excellence Award, Goodguys Custom Rod of the Year finalist, Chrysler Design Excellence Award Winner, Goodguys West Coast Custom of the Year winner, Blackie's Fresno Autorama Best Custom Award, H.A. Bagdasarian Worlds Most Beautiful Custom Award Sacramento. Built by JF Kustoms in Osyoos, British Columbia. Both grilles are one piece aluminum, custom built gauge cluster, unique double floor pans, hand built maple headliner, Chrysler 5.7 HEMI with custom Hilborn injection, Foose wheels, DuPont Hot Hues custom mixed Revolutionary Yellow and over 11,000 hours of labor to build this outstanding custom.

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Sold for $170 to Ron Pratt. I must say I was a little disappointed for 2 reason 1thought it would go for more and 2 that Pratt bough it so it will never see the light of day again

 

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Wow that was a tough one to watch, it just seemed to hit the wall.  I was sitting with a friend of the builder of the car and he told me there was an individual that loaned the builder 100 grand to promote the car so he got whatever was left after that was paid back.  I watched the builder and his wife walk out after it rolled down the ramp and they looked like they were almost in tears.  I truly felt sorry for him as it could have been a great small time builder story but man it's tough to play with the big boys if you don't have deep pockets to back you.  He basically gave it away.  We had seen it at a couple of our B.C. shows but I guess it's gone and you have to wonder what the setback will be to him as there obviously was a big investment there.  There seemed to be alot of momentum a couple hours earlier but some of the stuff dragged out abit and I think the selling time was a little late for the best result.

 

Carl, I hear ya, we are in a different class altogether here. I've seen this guy Pratt for a few yrs. now & know the stuff he buys go into a "private" museum. but what the "H^%::LL" or where does he get the money do these off the wall purchases?? Nobody has money like that, DO THEY????

I want to be stupidly rich! I promise ill give money to charity.

I too was hoping to see the Canadian builder come out clean on the wagon. You have to wonder if Ron Pratt intimidates other bidders to bail out a little early. I always thought it would be to your advantage to have Pratt interested in your car. Maybe not the case. You'd be in a war or the wallets you just can't win.

An auction is very simple. The problem is you need 2 people interested in your commodity. You can have 1 person willing to pay a million dollars for you car and if you don't have someone willing to pay 300 grand it's going to sell for 170 or whatever. My dad started taking me to auctions from as far back as I can remember and in high school I skipped every Tuesday to work at the auction. Having said that I love auctions and the dynamics of them but they can be suicide too. I just love the unreserved auctions so much more because you know the transaction is pretty well ending right there on the stage. Nothing worse than someone flying in from who knows where and bidding his brains out and then they tell you sorry you didn't meet the reserve. The value of that car today at that place is what it sells for. I don't know if you guys remember a light blue 58 Corvette go through around 5 o'clock Saturday. It sold for 200 g. I talked to him for nearly an hour earlier in the week and he was as nice a car guy as you could meet. He only had that 1 car and had bought it from his wife's aunt so it had been in the family for many years. He had done just a great resto on it but had spent a ton of money on it and had to make a decision with his family for their future. He was pretty stressed and he drove the car onto the stage himself and watched from there as it sold. It was so cool to see him walk down the ramp after and he was tapping his chest in relief. It was funny because he thought he might have a chance of getting a decent price because he had 2 different older guys come by and question the driveability of it. They each had a young attractive girl with them. The 1 guy was saying he was buying it for his niece. That gave us a good chuckle. Either way there were 2 guys who were interested and I think he did alright. Hope I'm not boring you guys with these stories but it sort of interests me what goes on behind the scenes.

-- Edited by jmont64 on Sunday 24th of January 2010 09:05:28 PM

An auction may look simple but the problem is they all allow shills to operate to jack up prices for the average guy and they also allow the owner to bid on his own car to jack up the price, so there is no real "No Reserve Auction". The state needs to regulate the fraud that occurs at auctions. 51 Million U.S. Dollars is at stake at Barret - Jackson for the week. The Third Party Bidding is controlled in some cases so the little guy gets screwed.