Car Junkies Rejoice!

[Old Fart]

The Barrett Jackson Auctions are on TV again.
Barrett-Jackson - The World's Greatest Collector Car Events
For those of you mortals who don't have 900 cable TV channels, check your local listings.
DJH

[Woodmonkey]

[Old Fart]

Be glad you're not Lee Ann, you don't have to sit around for 8 hours a day listening to me say "Damn! I had one of those! ".
I had a pal who owned a 69 Mustang Boss 429, he paid $8,000 for it in 1973. There were just over 500 of them made, One just sold for HALF A MILLION!
I wish I was a "Baby Boomer" with the kind of disposable income the guys at that auction have, for now I'm just going to be happy having a Model T that's only worth a mere $10,000 .
It's really kind of depressing, thinking what my,
1951 Ford Country Squire (woody).
1951 Ford Victoria.
1955 Mercury.
1965 Mustang.
1957 Chevy.
1923 (hemi powered) "T" roadster.
(I could go on)
are worth these days
DJH

[Old Fart]

Now here's MY idea of a car
TheMustangNews.com - $5,000,000 Shelby Super Snake

[Woodmonkey]

Did you mean to put all those zero's in?

[Old Fart]

That little blue Ford sold at the Barrett-Jackson Auction last Sat. for
$5 Million


"This car is one of only two 427 Cobras that were anointed “Super Snake” status. The other car was CSX 3303 which was sold to comedian Bill Cosby who set the car in fame with his album “200 Miles Per Hour” - a very funny comedy based on his experience with Carroll and the car. Unfortunately that car was destroyed in a tragic accident with it’s second owner Tony Maxey when it careened off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean.
CSX 3015 was driven by Carroll Shelby in a storied sense. He shared on the auction block during the sale that he had taken the car on jaunts across Nevada at 175 miles per hour plus, causing all sorts of mayhem and even hitting a buzzard. “That was a big mess”, he said. In the description of the car in the Barrett-Jackson catalogue it is said that he built the car just to see how fast it would go. With it’s twin supercharged 427 Carroll says that it was a monster that threw belts regularly and even caught fire a couple times.
The car is indeed the “Cobra to end all Cobras” with nearly 1000 horsepower. We can add that the car is now in the stratosphere of automobiles that have sold for millions. The buyer representing an auto collection paid $5,000,000 for the car, $5,500,000 with commission to be exact."
DJH

[Old Fart]

One of these also sold at the Barret-Jackson Auction for $100,000.
They drove it on to the auction block under it's own power.
Talk about a "thumper", it has a 100 cubic inch ONE cylinder engine, hooked to the wheels by a chain drive.
How cool would it be to drive around a 100 year old automobile
(my car is only 80 years old )
DJH