FleaBay Insanity - $510+ bolts !!!
07-11-2012, 07:53 AM
#29
Drifting
I have two five dallon buckets almost full of original bolts that I've collected since the 60s. So I guess now I have to spend half a day going through all of them.
07-11-2012, 01:11 PM
#32
Melting Slicks
How can someone really be that ****??? If you're willing to drop basically a mortgage payment on 2 bolts, does the car even get driven? Probably just a trailer queen/paper weight. If I **** somebody off, oh well, but I kinda feel sorry for the dude who can try to justify this purchase. To each his own though, live and let live. That purchase probably covers my operating expenses for the entire summer......don't know if he's happier at the end of the day though? C'est la vie......
07-11-2012, 02:00 PM
#33
Safety Car
More money than brains. $800 is probably the monthly electric bill for whomever bought those bolts. Their mortgage is probably $10k+ a month.
07-11-2012, 02:12 PM
#34
Drifting
Personally, I don't get the thought of having cars like these sitting in hyperbaric chambers, never driven or put in the light of day.
It put a smile on my face last fall when I saw a bunch of old cars driving down the road, among them a maroon late-50's Mercedes 300SL convertible. That was probably a $500k car that was surrounded by a number of amazing newer and older vehicles ranging from an early Corvette to a new Ferrari California. Really cool to see stuff like that being driven...especially the Mercedes.
In my mind, other than the insane thought of "less miles is better", there is FAAAAAAAAR more damage done to a car in its being stored indefinitely than in its being driven 500 or 1000 miles a year.
Along that vein, I agree...$800+ for two bolts is, excuse the pun, just plain nutty. I guess if you are the guy with the PERFECT car that is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT in every single way except for the lack of these two bolts, it would actually make some sense. But for there to be multiple bidders blows that theory out of the water.
Drive the cars. Put a couple Grade 8 bolts in there to hold the darn air cleaner on and burn some GAS for Pete's sake.
It put a smile on my face last fall when I saw a bunch of old cars driving down the road, among them a maroon late-50's Mercedes 300SL convertible. That was probably a $500k car that was surrounded by a number of amazing newer and older vehicles ranging from an early Corvette to a new Ferrari California. Really cool to see stuff like that being driven...especially the Mercedes.
In my mind, other than the insane thought of "less miles is better", there is FAAAAAAAAR more damage done to a car in its being stored indefinitely than in its being driven 500 or 1000 miles a year.
Along that vein, I agree...$800+ for two bolts is, excuse the pun, just plain nutty. I guess if you are the guy with the PERFECT car that is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT in every single way except for the lack of these two bolts, it would actually make some sense. But for there to be multiple bidders blows that theory out of the water.
Drive the cars. Put a couple Grade 8 bolts in there to hold the darn air cleaner on and burn some GAS for Pete's sake.
Last edited by keithinspace; 07-11-2012 at 02:14 PM.
07-11-2012, 07:13 PM
#36
Melting Slicks
I just hope I can get these same people to bid on my alternator.
Roger, I'll take those MFing bolts, as long as I don't get screwed.
Roger, I'll take those MFing bolts, as long as I don't get screwed.
