"Brand New" 1979 Impala Wagon 1.7 Miles!!!

Sure it can, look at this prime 58 Ford
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDet...8562&lid=17534686&title=1958-Ford-Ranch-Wagon#

Only nine grand.

 

Like new on the inside. :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

Are these buyers insane?!

Many of these cars that have sat out in the dirt and weather for decades could very well just crumble and break apart when you try to winch them out.

 

^^^ALL of these cars have been moved from their original parking spots before the sale, so it would appear that would not be the case. Remember, there were 30' trees growing among the cars. What could be moved, was moved, and the trees were cut down.

 

Just got this from an email from one of my friends in Texas. Looks like quite the show. I wonder haw many good ones where hidden away in storage?

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/thousands-travel-neb-vintage-chevy-auction-151655435.html

 

Even so, you can find much better deals with diligent craigslist searches. You may not find a wagon with 2 original miles, but if it has to be completely restored anyway, what's the benefit to the low mileage?! Once you retitle it, it is just another used car.

The trashed, low option and rusted 1979 Impala wagon with 1 mile for $12,500 that does not run? No thanks I'll take my loaded and clean 1989 Caprice Estate instead with 100k miles that I got for $3200 any day!

 

Oh, hell, that goes without saying! I can't understand that $12,500 1.7-mile deal, either. I could easily see some unscrupulous turd out there take a nearly-immaculate '79 wagon somewhere and take this instrument cluster and numbers to do a swap. I'm NOT saying the actual buyer would do this, but this could happen to any of these cars quite easily. I just can't see the prices paid for a single-digit odometer reading! Because that, and an MSO is what the money really bought for nearly all of the "new" cars and trucks, when you think about it.

But, I'm very happy for the Lambrecht's and the auction company both. Good old-fashioned capitalism at work! And no one held a gun to any buyer's head to pay the prices they did. I love it.

 

All of this proves that most of us station wagon forum members are not as dumb as many think!

 

If you look through the final results, it looks like one bidder came away with the majority of the cars. Here's the final list.

https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=68561&p=1&sort=3#cnTb

High bidder on the majority of the cars was "o****e".

EDIT. OK, never mind, o****e has got to be the auction representative. There's no way a single person won all of those auctions.

 

Actually, one guy DID spend well over a quarter-million on various vehicles and memorabilia.

 

On another forum they said( o****e ) meant ONSITE. In other words at the auction. I feel so badly I missed out on one of those wooden yard sticks. Wal-Mart wants $.50 for a new one. I remember when dealers and the county fair gave them away.