Cobras at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach

[mrmustang]

Sorry if I ramble a bit both on and off topic as I'm working on about 2 hours sleep over the course of the last 72 hours........

The bubble has arrived, if you can hold on to yours for another year it may bounce back. As for comparing yours to any of the cars from Barrett Jackson with the mindset "well mine is almost as nice as (insert Wayne's car here for example)", sorry, but sellers have been doing that for years, sadly some (I have not seen yours so I cannot comment on it) of them do have cars that are just as nice, but most do not. They see a car selling for 100K and use the mindset above, not realizing that the owners had 110K in to the item that sold for 100K and on top of that they still had to pay a 10% sellers commission, so they LOST MONEY!!!! I say this as someone who has been at these major specialty auction since 1994, both as a buyer, seller, or buyer/sellers assistant/agent.......Anyone who uses Barrett Jackson or any other specialty car auction as the new "market set" is sadly wrong, as the cars that go through them are usually the cream of the crop, the top 1-2% of the show car market..........Again I do wish you well with the sale of your car, but just keep in mind, for every FFR you here hawked at 27-45K, quite a few of them are actually selling for 22-30K, but the sellers will never tell you that...Yup, been there as a buyer countless times (sorry not in the market now or any time soon), will do so again in the future..............My advice, learn German and rewrite your ad on a Germany based auto for sale site, as they seem to be the only ones paying more than 35K for a FFR at this time.......Oh yeah, your car has to be titled as a vintage (pre 73) for them to even consider buying it.


Bill S.

[SoTxButler]

Wayne Presley's car (red FFR that went for $50K ) was brand new and nice. It was a 460 with stack injection and was very nice. Wayne is working on my car right now, and while I was there, I saw the red car. The Kirkham, according to Wayne was VERY rough. The FFR that brought $56 was a supercharged 302 and while it was nice, it just found the right guy fairly early in the auction who wanted a blown small block.

I agree, the market is flooded right now and you should hold on for a while if you can.