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Old 04-07-2012, 09:16 PM
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Default Someone lost $$$$$ on this SWC.......

This car just Sold at BJ for $86,000 + 10%.
It had to cost much more that that to build.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=463&pop=0
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Originally Posted by RYanulis
This car just Sold at BJ for $86,000 + 10%.
It had to cost much more that that to build.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=463&pop=0
I would suggest that there would be very few potential buyers. IMHO, that is one fugly car.
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The right guy with money didn't show up. For every strange car, there is someone that is dying to own it.
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Originally Posted by Vogie
The right guy with money didn't show up. For every strange car, there is someone that is dying to own it.
This is true....someone actually bought the Mad Max C2 with all the guns, camouflage etc.
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That thing should go up to Paulywannafly for demo. Dennis
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We saw it run through last year when we were in Scottsdale. [url]http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=1306&aid=403&pop=0

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Originally Posted by Geralds57
We saw it run through last year when we were in Scottsdale. http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=403&pop=0
WOW! That's a huge drop in the sale price from 2011 to 2012.
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How many of you think it really changed hands?
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I saw that car at Palm Beach yesterday one of the worst mods I have seen proportion's are all wrong I think this is its third auction from talking to some press friends I bet it is still owned buy the original owner the pictures tell it all.
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Powered by a "V7"??? How the he!! does that work?
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Originally Posted by RYanulis
This car just Sold at BJ for $86,000 + 10%.
It had to cost much more that that to build.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=463&pop=0
They always do.....

I love this quote from the bio:

GM's Design Director said it best. "The Corvette Duntov would have built (sic) to win LeMans,"

I'm sure next year's participants are breathing a sigh of relief.....

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That is one ugly car.
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I'm sorry, but that is so bad I don't even call that a 63.
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I looked that car over real good in Scottsdale, and it was not that nice! Unless you see these cars in person, tv and lighting make them look a whole bunch nicer than they are....
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ugly, whoever paid 170k + for it last year deserved to lose money
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Looks kinda like the hunchback of Notre Dame
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In this case different does not mean better.

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Originally Posted by RYanulis
This car just Sold at BJ for $86,000 + 10%.
It had to cost much more that that to build.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=463&pop=0
I can appreciate the effort and skill to do this, but effort and skill must also have some design, and I just see none. It looks somewhat like a chopped Avanti/Corvette Hybrid where the Corvette lost?
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This abomination of a Corvette is what you get when you cross a SWC with a Pontiac Aztek



From Wikipedia: Time magazine in 2007 calling the Aztek one of the worst cars of all time,[1] and again in 2010 as the 34th worst invention of all time.[2] A poll in The Daily Telegraph in August 2008 placed the Aztek at number one of the "100 ugliest cars" of all time.[3]
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Originally Posted by Bluestripe67
That thing should go up to Paulywannafly for demo. Dennis
problem is after I have my fun with it there might not be enough of a car to rebuild



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