Damaged 06 auction
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FBA
GT Owner
Darthvader
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MarkH
GT Owner
550rwhp
GT Owner
Mark, With a busted or bent frame, will it still be stable at over 250? I am sure you have the ability to fix or straighten the frame, just don't know if the car will be like new and straight if it's repaired? With the speeds you go, any imperfection would be of concern. I have seen many wrecked cars fixed, wounder how good the frame actually is. I guess it depen on how bent or broken it is.
Have always wondered about this.
Have always wondered about this.
MarkH
GT Owner
No doubt valid concerns. I am not really looking for another mike care but more of a roll on race car to go run those foreign made cars from 60-200mph... Kevin over at M2K has had a few ideas he would like to try out on the GT platform and if we are gonna race it, no need to start with a "perfect GT".... Who knows we will see how the next few days go, price may get to high for my taste.
MarkH
GT Owner
Car went for $139,880 and I was NOT the winning bidder. I did see Andy on the bid several times under Performance Andy but someone with the name of Wyatt13 was the winning bidder. That could have been Andy with another screen name, who knows. Would be curious if someone on this site was the winning bidder or not. My plan was to make it a race car so hopefully whoever got it, plans to do something really cool but I am betting it will be put back together and sold with a tarnished title.
Darthvader
Well-known member
I bid the car up to $138,000 which was stupid, this car wasn't worth a penny over 125k with the damages, I bid it so high because I was trying to teach the high bidder that he's in the wrong market. His total will be 142k with sales fee and he is from Canada so he will have to ship it as well, he is gonna be disappointed with his car.
FBA
GT Owner
I gotta ask the question...what if you had gotten stuck with your bid Andy? If you say it wasn't worth a penny over 125k, and you'd gotten stuck with it, what then?
Darthvader
Well-known member
I would have fixed it and drove it until the prices went up, some can afford to do that some cant, doesn't make sense the guy would pay 142k with 30k in repairs with 13k miles when the last 2 un wrecked clean title cars I bought with 14k miles I only paid 155k for one and 173k for the other.
Cobraguy
GT Owner
I agree....IF he imports it he will also have to pay %5 at the border plus several grand for misc fees and to have it modified to register it in Canada. And then there is the Can vs US dollar adjustment.
This doesn't appear to be a deal but it may make sense to the new owner dependant on what his/her plans are...IMHO...
shelbyelite
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- May 10, 2007
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Mark H, give me a call. Think I may have a car for you that I just heard about that would make a great car to use for your build...
MarkH
GT Owner
f4udriver
GT Owner
I will never understand how the auction prices run so high on salvage vehicles. I was bidding on the Kirkham Cobra at 42,000. It went for 61,000 plus fees, shipping and tax will easily be 65,000. A quick search of that car for sale shows a Colorado seller "where there was a recent flood" asking 75,000. It is the same car.
Same with the Caterham except he was asking in the thirties and a search shows that number to be high. And it had water in the engine. And did not run.
Sometimes I think if I have trouble selling something it would be best to dent a fender and try to set it up as a damaged auction car. I think cranky ape takes consignments. I have seen this with salvaged aircraft as well.
There is always the bidder who has the parts lying around with nothing in them but certainly not on all of the auctions.
Once I was standing next to a friend who was bidding crazy numbers on surplus military trucks. I told him I could get them for him for 1/3 of what he was paying. He continued and bought 5 or 6 more. Of course he is broke right now.
Same with the Caterham except he was asking in the thirties and a search shows that number to be high. And it had water in the engine. And did not run.
Sometimes I think if I have trouble selling something it would be best to dent a fender and try to set it up as a damaged auction car. I think cranky ape takes consignments. I have seen this with salvaged aircraft as well.
There is always the bidder who has the parts lying around with nothing in them but certainly not on all of the auctions.
Once I was standing next to a friend who was bidding crazy numbers on surplus military trucks. I told him I could get them for him for 1/3 of what he was paying. He continued and bought 5 or 6 more. Of course he is broke right now.
