"HiredHand" (ghubacek)
01/18/2014 at 02:47 • Filed to: None
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"HiredHand" (ghubacek)
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Barrett-Jackson publishes the stats for their cars here: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Search by Lot Number here: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Hypothetical situation: You great Aunt Gertrude passes away (god rest her soul) and leaves you $10,000 dollars. You fly to Scottsdale to claim it and sign the lawyer papers while the movers clean out her condo. In the fine print, the inheritance stipulates that you must spend some amount of your $10,000 between January 12 and January 19 at Barrett-Jackson (Gertrude was a weird one). What would you buy?
Rules: Find the best deal for 10,000 dollars or under - Not including commission.
Bonus: If your car is less than 10K, spend the rest on mods and tell us about them.
GO! There's a lot more gems in there than you would think.
My pick:
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! - 3500 before commission
RWD, 4-speed manual, 1900cc's of raw 4-pot power, vintage luggage, AND a cool $6500 for chassis / suspension upgrades along with some better tires and a bit of engine work? Count me in!
Greenmobile Supremo Commando, BRZ Extrordinare
> HiredHand
01/18/2014 at 03:34 |
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Because finding a small old Japanese sports car failed... 1989 Jag XJS for 6,800. Spend the rest on a manual swap and some nice suspension bits, and she'd be a lovely cruiser/windy road companion.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/on…
lonestranger
> HiredHand
01/18/2014 at 03:37 |
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'66 Beetle in my favourite colour went for $5500.
Remove the door logos, sell the rear luggage rack, keep everything else. Maybe do something with that ugly seat upholstery pattern, maybe slap some bumpers back on. Let's assume that the luggage rack is traded for the bumpers, so I'm not out of pocket yet. That leaves $4500 for a 2110 82mm x 90.5mm engine & a beefed up trans. If I built the engine myself & just had to buy parts, machining, & the tranny, it's easily doable for $5500. If there's any left over, it'd go to incidentals.
Alex87f
> Greenmobile Supremo Commando, BRZ Extrordinare
01/18/2014 at 06:02 |
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My choice too. Although I'd probably keep the balance of money to keep that sucker running!
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Alex87f
> HiredHand
01/18/2014 at 06:05 |
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Since someone already posted the 1989 XJS (and since I assume your hypothetical situation states that if someone calls dibs, the car's gone) , my second choice would be this 1973 351 Mustang V8 for 6 000$:
The balance of money would be used to find some stock rims (whose cost would probably be covered by selling the crappy 17" the car's sold with), and lots of maintenance to make the car mint.
JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
> HiredHand
01/18/2014 at 09:35 |
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1979 Lincoln Continental. $3,520 before commision. Everything seems to be in perfect shape; as stated in the ad. It also seems like something Aunt Gertrude would like.
Hmmm, mods... I guess I'd upgrade the engine and suspension...
CPT Speedbump
> HiredHand
01/18/2014 at 11:32 |
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Every time I click on any Barret Jackson link right now, I get "this webpage is not available"
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HiredHand
> Alex87f
01/18/2014 at 14:30 |
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Well done, 6K not bad of a v8 at all.
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HiredHand
> lonestranger
01/18/2014 at 14:31 |
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I figured this bug would make the cut somewhere, was right up there for me too.
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HiredHand
> CPT Speedbump
01/18/2014 at 17:07 |
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They seem to be totally overwhelmed today. Tons of server errors.