TOO MUCH BARRETT & JACKSON

TOM-WA-
TOM-WA- Senior Contributor
edited January 2013 in HUDSON
IF HE GETS AN OFFER I WONDER HOW DISAPPOINTED HE'S GONNA BE.....LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Makes-Super-6-2-door-1949-Hudson-Super-/160953602891?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item257995134b

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I just asked if the seller had documentation of the movie credit.

    However, I don't think they will respond. I told them I thought the movie cars was animated and featured a Hudson Hornet not the Super.

    I did add that I will check IMDB just in case I missed a movie.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Hey Tom I think the optional 264 engine might be the drawing card here.
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    edited January 2013
    These prices, and that '52 sedan on another post going for $178K are pretty much the reason a few of us cannot afford the cars any more - this has been the case since the speculators priced the more common Fords and Chevys out of the market. Once they ran thru Mopars and a few other more common makes they zero'd in on Hudson because they were available at a decent price. Then the auctions drove the prices out of whack.
    Don't take this post to mean I fault any of our members for selling at higher-than-realistic prices - If I had a, say, Hornet I'd originally bought for, say, $20,000 and some fruit loop offered me $75,000 or so for it I'd probably laugh all he way to the bank.
    But thank you - I'll stick to my computer generated literature collection and try to get as much as I can before prices force me out of the market. And thank you most heartedly to all those who have loaned, sold to me at dirt prices and in general have helped me obtain the literature to scan. We can always use more.

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Good grief, for that price I would sell my 51 Hornet with 51000 miles on it and even deliever it. At least its orginal except for the repaint job. This is getting ridiculous!! I would even throw in the 51 hardtop. Well mybe I should think about that? lol
  • Park_W
    Park_W Senior Contributor
    I've just emailed the seller, suggesting that in the interest of his credibility he back off on the "Cars" connection. And change the engine size and take some pic's with the skirts in place. Other than that ... .
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    Just looking at the pictures of this car again - the Cars emblem on the trunk is a nice touch. No doubt the guy will swear it came from the factory with that emblem on it!!! :D
    Or claim it means the car was in the movie.
    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    Al Saffrahn & I went to one of these "auctions" a few years ago; it's not an auction, it's a circus to garner $$$ by BJ. To park less than 1/4 mi. away, you pay to park, then you pay to get into the auction tent, then you pay for the auction catalog & of course if you actually intend to bid on some overpriced overhyped item, they get a nice % of that action too.
    I can't imagine a worse place to buy a car ~
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    The selling prices are in doubt,as to what was the selling bid and if the deal was made. Every thing runs on bull shit as my daddy once told me? Ha. Car auctions are not escrows...
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    With such reported sales prices ,I wonder how many owners will expence themselfs all the way to one of these shows/
  • bigboy308
    bigboy308 Expert Adviser
    Looks like the same car that sold last year @ a Mecum Auction in Florida----$28,000.00
    Am I right?

    http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=FL0111-102981
  • J Haugo
    J Haugo Member
    bigboy308, no doubt about it, you are right.
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    as for auctions, there are 2 adages that are apropos:
    "Don't give a sucker an even break" - W. C. Fields
    "There's a sucker born every minute & I'm here to take him" - P. T. Barnum
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    just looked at the photos - think it takes a lot of whatever to ask that for that car unless really "right", which it isn't - interior fabric wrong, dash been most inappropriately refinished (who ever did it too cheap to get it regrained), after-market heat gauge, later steering wheel & undoubtedly other non-original work done to it.
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