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Just saw on Barrett-Jackson that a '63 TR4 went for $90,000 (sold off the air). SHEEEEEESSSSHHHHHH!!
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TR4/4A $90K TR4????
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This is the one:
https://www.barrett-jackson.com/events/florida/vehicles/cardetail_list.asp?id=184501
I don't get it!
https://www.barrett-jackson.com/events/florida/vehicles/cardetail_list.asp?id=184501
I don't get it!
Russ Austin
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I'm pushing my eyes back in, I just tuned Barrett Jackson and it was one of the big sales. Wow!!!
LastDeadLast
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I get it... more money than brains.
Alan_Myers
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After 29 years of ownership and swearing numerous times I'd never sell it... my TR4 just became available!
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Alan_Myers
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Shoot, it doesn't even have an OD or a hard top!
And, how in the world did anyone manage to spend $85K restoring a TR4!?!?!
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At least a "vintage tool kit" is included. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif
p.s. Looking at the interior photo enlarged, it does appear to have an OD switch, so maybe it has one. Must be reflections making the dash look so strange. Hmmm, for that kinda money, they could have fitted a correct radio, one would think.
And, how in the world did anyone manage to spend $85K restoring a TR4!?!?!
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At least a "vintage tool kit" is included. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif
p.s. Looking at the interior photo enlarged, it does appear to have an OD switch, so maybe it has one. Must be reflections making the dash look so strange. Hmmm, for that kinda money, they could have fitted a correct radio, one would think.
bluemiata90
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I just resently sold 2 different TR4s for less then $4000 each. I should have auctioned them at Barrett, I know I could have gotten at least $5000 for them. Some people just have to much money.
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IMHO, this Barrett Jackson stuff doesn't reflect the true market value. Got to be the result of a super-wealthy gy trying to prove that his, er, "wallet" is bigger than everyone else's. TR4s won't be worth that much in private sales next week, just like the changes of me getting $130k for my 100-point concours Healey in a private sale is highly unlikely. For the record, I have watched the Healey market closely since the last BJ auction, and guess what, the prices are *exactly* where they were before the auction.
I also find it interesting that the TR4 is suddenly, in one day, worth as much as a Series 1 E-Type or an XK-120 roadster. Perhaps Sean Connery deflowered someone in that TR4. I'm sure by next week we'll be seeing $40,000 MGBs from these guys. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif
I also find it interesting that the TR4 is suddenly, in one day, worth as much as a Series 1 E-Type or an XK-120 roadster. Perhaps Sean Connery deflowered someone in that TR4. I'm sure by next week we'll be seeing $40,000 MGBs from these guys. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif
Guys,
Very simple -- history repeats itself. Remember when people were paying $1M for Ferrari 308s right after Enzo died? Remember when people in the UK were forming investment groups to buy classics? The collector car market surged to stupid levels in the late 1980s, and then came crashing down.
The same will happen again. When these guys who buy these cars for three-to-ten times the actual market value finally decide to sell the cars in three or four years, they'll realize that there isn't enough of a market to support the prices -- then those guys become more savvy purchasers.
This Barrett-Jackson craze is fueled by about 30 long-time car collectors/salesmen. It is working on a greater fool theory, and they know the window is very short to make insane money on these cars.
They're actually just really happy that muscle cars and hot rods are so popular, because it's easy to find original muscle cars (Hemis, 427s, 440s,) or to make clones that sell for two or three times the cost of creating.
Very simple -- history repeats itself. Remember when people were paying $1M for Ferrari 308s right after Enzo died? Remember when people in the UK were forming investment groups to buy classics? The collector car market surged to stupid levels in the late 1980s, and then came crashing down.
The same will happen again. When these guys who buy these cars for three-to-ten times the actual market value finally decide to sell the cars in three or four years, they'll realize that there isn't enough of a market to support the prices -- then those guys become more savvy purchasers.
This Barrett-Jackson craze is fueled by about 30 long-time car collectors/salesmen. It is working on a greater fool theory, and they know the window is very short to make insane money on these cars.
They're actually just really happy that muscle cars and hot rods are so popular, because it's easy to find original muscle cars (Hemis, 427s, 440s,) or to make clones that sell for two or three times the cost of creating.
Paul Johnson
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I've been wondering for a bit now, if . . . no, forget it. I cannot afford to be sued.