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Old 01-25-2004, 08:16 AM
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The car definitely looks like a glass car.

First, the underside of the front hood has what appears to be aluminum colored paint or covering with obvious lines. If it was an aluminum hood it would look, in most cases like smooth sanded aluminum or painted the color of the car. In short the hood doesn't look like it would be aluminum.

Second, aside from the 1" tubing as pointed out by SpecialK the inside edges of the fender leading down to the trunk are too wide/deep and squared off. The depth of the edge on aluminum cars is smaller and rounded off due to the aluminum being bent over the tubing for riveting.

At $105K it was a fair price. Certainly returned to the buyer close to if not more than what he probably paid for it.

It seemed clear that cars with Shelby's name and history connected to it of any sort broght the money.

While the Contemporary was a nice car it clearly didn't fetch what it should have at $23K. That car was easily a $35K to $40K car and probably cost the owner more when new.

Point is it seems like a "name" does matter to the buying public like it or not.
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