Heck of a deal

4Hud

Wow, Hudson prices have sure risen drastically! A fellow from our local car club here in Edmonton, Alberta was out on his bicycle the other day and noticed part of a chrome bumper peeking out from under some blankets. He stopped and found it to be a '51 Hudson Brougham (not sure what model). The owner didn't pull all the covering off but did say it needed brake work etc. Now, here is the good part, the guy said it wasn't for sale but he had had an offer of $125,000. Ya, right.

Unknown

Boy, that's the day two fools met!

[Deleted User]

Well, as long as it's not for sale I'll give him $250,000 for it. I've heard about that car, the back seat is from the car Elvis was conceived in, and there's an alien from area 51 in the trunk.



Harry

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I will give him 126K for it but I want the blankets as well and his house....

hudsontech

Yeah, well, greed is driven by Jackson-Barrett and other auction houses and by speculators. I've seen this over and over. A top grade car goes off the auction block at far more than it'll ever be worth - and some fellow down the road with a similar, ie, 1948 drop dead georgeous Hudson convert goes for $90k, for example - the fellow down the road has a ratty looking 1950 Hudson sedan, that on a good day would fetch, oh, $1500, but he sees that $90k and all of a sudden his sedan becomes a bar of gold to sustain him in his old age. So it rots into the ground while he tries, in vain, to figure out why nobody will give him $50,000 for it.

And the world goes around and around and around.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

HudsonTech

Memphis, TN

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Unfortunately this is happening a lot lately. Too make it worse one of the sellers that ask too much money sometimes gets it and that drives up the cost of everything.. Too many fools with too much disposable income, and the attitude of some that they have to have something and will pay anything for it.



Harry

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I have a 1929 Dodge Brothers Merchants Express pickup that I have to restore, it's running but needs paint and all the wood in the cab redone. Anyway a stranger stopped and asked what I wanted for it, since I didn't want to sell it I said $5000 and he left. A few months later he was back at my gate with a friend. He said something like, so did you say you wanted $3500 for the truck, I told him no, I said I wanted $7500, he got all indignant and asked what happened to $5000, I told him he should have given me that then, but since his memory was so bad when he first asked I figured he couldn't remember what we had talked about. Like I said, I don't really want to sell the truck. Now I may have to in order to get a Hudson pickup. Anyone want to trade?



Harry

bent metal

4Hud wrote:

Wow, Hudson prices have sure risen drastically! A fellow from our local car club here in Edmonton, Alberta was out on his bicycle the other day and noticed part of a chrome bumper peeking out from under some blankets. He stopped and found it to be a '51 Hudson Brougham (not sure what model). The owner didn't pull all the covering off but did say it needed brake work etc. Now, here is the good part, the guy said it wasn't for sale but he had had an offer of $125,000. Ya, right.

lol... Tell this guy I'll sell him one of mine (or two) for half price. :rolleyes:

Aaron D. IL

$125,000 yeah if someone gave me that for my step-down I'd take it and go buy a fleet of other very nice step-downs to put on my lawn so when the buyer drove by my house he could cry. LOL



Speculators, and I'm refering in particular to those who have never turned a wrench personally, don't belong in the hobby but like anything else that's fun a few people tend to ruin it for everyone else. The same speculation in old cars and other antiques happened in the early '80's and a lot of guys lost their shirts.



"I got a section of the brooklin bridge I'd like to sell ya."

Unknown

In the over 50 years I have been fooling with cars , I have seen many prices go up and down. And now that there are more bankrupies and forclosers than ever, people are loosing money quickly. Some of the people on this forum are part and parcial of this fool pricing themselves. Wait till car prices start going down then they will squeal with their $20.000 Hudsons. Look at 55 thru 57 T Birds, they are now down ,also tri 5 Chevrolets and others.