Good Video on How to Grade Your Car

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
Classics come in all shapes, sizes, and yes, even grades! Collectors determine the value of cars based on six different states of condition, or grades... from a pristine #1 car to a #6 that is only suitable for salvaging parts.

While a whole lot of folks out there will tell you that their car is a low #1 or even a high #2, the truth is that few cars achieve these top grades.

Watch as Old Cars Price Guide editor Ron Kowalke shows you how to tell a true #1 from a mere "20-footer!"



http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/videos/OCW/ocw_tv.asp?showid=378450

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Hey Matt ,you wouldn't happen to have any vested interest in the Old Car Price Guide would you? I mean just because you are the administrator of their website and all. That dosen't have anything to do with this right???
  • Unknown
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    MattGergeni wrote:
    Classics come in all shapes, sizes, and yes, even grades! Collectors determine the value of cars based on six different states of condition, or grades... from a pristine #1 car to a #6 that is only suitable for salvaging parts.

    While a whole lot of folks out there will tell you that their car is a low #1 or even a high #2, the truth is that few cars achieve these top grades.

    Watch as Old Cars Price Guide editor Ron Kowalke shows you how to tell a true #1 from a mere "20-footer!"



    http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/videos/OCW/ocw_tv.asp?showid=378450



    wow, I never knew this is how it worked.... :p



    thanks for the link....



    too bad only a few people out there ever get good at truly assessing the true collector grade of their vehicle. As a rule of thumb, if you think your car is a number one, it isn't. If you encounter a true number one, you will know it. most of the cars you see at a local meet are number threes, and a few number twos. A number one stands out in the crowd, regardless of make model year.
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    I'm not a big fan of #1 cars, because almost without exception they're not driven and look over-restored to me. When I ran an automotive museum, we did everything we could to keep from just showing static dispays. Most of the cars looked like they'sd just come off the race track, some of them mud and all, and many of them were fired up and driven for outdoor shows or hauled to the track and actually run for the fans. We worked hard on the 'living museum' concept. My own personal gripe is that original/unrestored cars aren't appreciated enough. My '40 will be 68 years old in a couple of months and it still has its original upholstery, headliner, glass, mechanicals, spare tire, etc. It's a great car (IMHO), but by any current measure it's barely a number 3, and it ain't ever going to be even a number two, unless somebody does it after I'm dead. But you know what? When I drive it to shows, people love it. And a couple of years ago I drove it over 500 miles on old Route 66 across the Mojave desert on the Laughlin Ecomomy Run. Its stunningly powerful 175 ci mill performed flawlessly. I've driven it almost every week for 22 years. There's something to be said for survivors. :rolleyes:
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I just spent a month of off and on work replacing all the bushings, end links, brakes, hoses, wheel cylinders, inner and outer axle seals, pinion seals, U-Joints and tranny output shaft seal you get the picture basically most of everything under the car and for the life of me I couldn't see doing all that work to let the car sit indoors.

    I agree with Sam most of the trailer queens are over restored and it seems a shame to turn it into something that doesn't get driven.....
  • Unknown
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    yeah, when it comes to the best there is, I would be hard pressed to say a nice original low mileage car beats out a 100 point restoration any day. you can't beat an original, even if it has a bit of patina.



    as far as where my car falls, I would consider it a high 4, at best, I hope after painting next year, and putting on all of the chrome I gathered, and some detail work, new weatherseals all around, pull all of the glass, etc... that this thing might be a nice middle of the road three. I don't need a number 2 and definitely don't need a number one.



    I guess what gets me is how prices are not in line with actual condition, they are more based on a perception of the seller.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    This Matt guy posts at several forums, shilling for his OldCarsWeekly forums, articles, or tha magazine in general. Notice, he never comes back to respond to his posts? He posts and runs. I never click on his spam links, ever. The crap he pulls is shameless, IMO.



    And the Old Cars Price Guide is NOT the authority they'd like to think it is.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    My Jet is in LGIAP condition. "Looks good in a photo"
    I really enjoy it the way it is.
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    Lotta people will claim they have a #1 car when selling of course but basically as soon as you run it or drive it and the oil and grease starts getting on your finely detailed engline compartment it is then a #2. haha. I can't say I understand trailer queens myself, they're nicer than they were when they left the factory, very expensive, and people just stare at 'em. Sometimes I don't even think the queens will actually run or start they've been sitting so long. You could accomplish the same thing for a lot heckuva lot less money if you have a giant wall-sized poster of a car in your climate controlled garage. Now if you have a car that's super rare or one of kind like the X-161 Italia that I could totally understand trailering.
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