The weather was horrible, and nothing was on TV, so I watched a whole bunch of the auction this past weekend.

By far my favorite car was Dan Gurney's completely restored '70 Barracuda AAR Trans Am car. Ohhhhh how I'd love to own that car. Its fully functional and when they drove it up on stage it was simply thunderous.
I know its a museum piece, but I'd be forced to vintage race it if I owned it.

I think it went for about $80K.

Scott, off, yet again, to buy lottery tickets.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Catch 22 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The weather was horrible, and nothing was on TV, so I watched a whole bunch of the auction this past weekend.

By far my favorite car was Dan Gurney's completely restored '70 Barracuda AAR Trans Am car. Ohhhhh how I'd love to own that car. Its fully functional and when they drove it up on stage it was simply thunderous.
I know its a museum piece, but I'd be forced to vintage race it if I owned it.

I think it went for about $80K.

Scott, off, yet again, to buy lottery tickets.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I would have taken any of them...they all could have gotten me to florida faster Friday night than the 717 I was on. From leaving my house, to getting to my buddy's grandmother's house took 11 hours and 30 minutes. The drive back the next day took us 9.5 hours IN A FREAKING UHAUL TRUCK!!!! Why they can't figure out how to take less than 4 hours to spray anti-freeze on a freaking airplane is beyond me.

For the first time in my life, I would have rather been watching Barrett Jackson.

 

A guy on SCCA forums bid on that car. He thought it would go for $130, and he opened the bidding at $50, and said that it went to $300, in less than a minute!

 

???

My memory is terrible at best, but I thought the Gurney car went for less than $100K. 80 is the number thats stuck in my head.

This is a picture of the car pre-restoration. Apparently it was vintage raced until 2003...



BTW - If you love road racing and haven't checked out http://historictransam.com you're just cheating yourself.


Modified by Catch 22 at 2:01 PM 2/1/2005

 

A well restored all orginal Street AAR will usually go for around 80$ so I would be suprised if that car went that low.

 

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If it were that simple, they probably would have done that.

I was fortunate to get on a plane early enough on friday evening from FL back to ATL, but the city really was ill-equipped to deal with that "weather" which would have been a complete non-event around DC or further north.

 

My favorite was the Marlboro Maroon 1967 Corvette 427...... but maybe I'm a bit biased.

 

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If it were that simple, they probably would have done that.

I was fortunate to get on a plane early enough on friday evening from FL back to ATL, but the city really was ill-equipped to deal with that "weather" which would have been a complete non-event around DC or further north.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I am sure it is a more complicated process than it appears, and I am also sure they are dreadfully under-equipped. It really looked like a guy on a crane with a pressure washer, though!

We were joking on the way to the airport that with the sleet coming in we should just drive, it would be quicker. That is what we get for saying it...karma can be a bitch.

On topic: Scott, that website is really cool, thanks for the link!

 

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I was fortunate to get on a plane early enough on friday evening from FL back to ATL, but the city really was ill-equipped to deal with that "weather" which would have been a complete non-event around DC or further north.</TD></TR></TABLE>


go back to DC, we won't miss your ***....

 

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If its under a 5 hr drive these days, thats the way I go. Its always faster than dealing with getting on a plane... and I just dont like flying. And I can collect the 37.5 cents/mile

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When did u move to atl

 

I watched a good bit of it while working in the garage, but not all of it. I really did like the AAR Trans Am car. But, if I were throwing mad money at anything...it would have to be Coddington's Whatthehey...that car is smooth and by far the nicest custom there.

I did not notice many interesting race cars there this year.

 

I didn't watch much, but I remember an Indy car going for waaaaay cheaper than I thought it would.

 

An oldsmobile went for just over $100K.

My brother-in-law has the exact same model, similar condition in a storage unit in Phoenix.

He's thinking he's going to buy himself a house this year...

 

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If it were that simple, they probably would have done that.

I was fortunate to get on a plane early enough on friday evening from FL back to ATL, but the city really was ill-equipped to deal with that "weather" which would have been a complete non-event around DC or further north.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Welcome to the south...the littlest snow in the south triggers mass confusion, same snow in Ohio and we'd just laught...I do dig snow days from work though here in the south

 

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I don't know who the listed seller was but in the early '90s I knew the guy who owned the Gurney AAR Trans Am car in Lexington, KY for many years through the mid '90s at least that I knew of. He was not a driver himself so the guy who owned and raced it in the 1970s guest drove it for him at big vintage races. I have sat in the car at car shows and stuff. He also bought the team car that was raced by Swede Savage. There was a little known third 'Cuda that was given to Petty Enterprises back then to become a road racer but ran only a few times before heading off to be a dirt track car. I think Ed owns that one now as well too. I am surprised that he would have sold the Gurney car but maybe there was a second chassis or something. He is probably also in his 70s by now so he may be thinning the fleet.

I watched a fair amount of the auction but really had a rather hard time getting too fired up about the seeminly endless string of hot rods that generally didn't match my taste. I respect the efforts no doubt but just not my flavor on most of them. As they always say at the auction, modified cars really have to mach the specific tastes of the buyer and the audience narrows the more radical the car is. Anyone else see the dealership modified '68 big block Corvette with tons of gross tacked on rebody work?

My favorite of the auction was the really quick shot of the Echidna (pronounced Eh-kid-nuh) rolling off the block at $170,000. It is a Devin bodied road racing Special from the late 1950s and has some similarities with my Devin other than being running, real race history and worth probably 17 times what mine is.

 

The 21-window VW bus from That '70s Show.

K

 

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Indy cars aren't really worth much, unless you can get an actual CART-spec motor to go along with it (like that one apparently did...I didn't see it). Otherwise, you could get an '02 spec Reynard roller for $20k if you looked hard enough.

 

Kinda makes me wonder what a 5 year old or so F1 car would go for.

 

http://www.racecarsdirect.com

Window Shopping for Race Cars

 

1973 Porsche 911 RS that sold for 91k.

 

I really can't believe Auri's indy winning car went for soooo cheap.

 

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I love those cars

 

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/...cat=0

 

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Actually Arie's car won Phoenix. That's about the going rate for most old CART cars. I was disappointed the announcers didn't know about the B.O.S.S. vintage series for F1 and CART cars.

Brian

 

ohh, I wasn't there, nor did I see it on speed. I was going off what someone told me, so it wasn't the Domino's Lola?

I would have bought it..