Looks like a pretty nice original standard.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=49&aid=463&pop=0
Nice looking clean and straight. Not a bad price.
Steven
The auction page is down. What did it bring?
$14,500, plus add the 10% commission.( $15,950 )
Am I the only one that thinks this is high for this car?
Assuming the car is rust free, ok… that’s a great start for the car, and the 51K original miles is also great. But there really isn’t anything special about the car… it’s not a convertible, the engine is only a 351 (not bad, but not rare by any stretch.)
It seems that the ownership of the car may have played a part in the final bid. Does anyone else have an opinion, or is 15,950.00 (with buyers premium) reasonable to everyone but me?
If it’s as good as it looks in the pictures and a real survivor I think it’s OK. If it’s not a 100% original then yeah I think it’s way too much.
Yeah, the survivor condition is what makes that price.
Everything else equivalent (not survivor) seems to be hovering around 10 or so. They’re only original once.
Fair enough. I personally didn’t think the ownership history added much to the price, but I guess to the right bidder it might.
The whole “survivor” tag is a bit confusing to me. What doest it have to be to bemconsidered a survivor? Is there an official list? If so, I’d like to see it. And I assume that if one of those things on the list are not met, then it is no longer a survivor?
I don’t think there is a list, but the perfect survivor is a car that was stored in a dark climate controlled box for the past 40+ years. The more original stuff it has the closer it is to being considered a survivor. In general, survivors are unmolested cars, as close to stock as possible, or only with period correct modifications. A respray in the original color might still pass, but the interior needs to be the one that came from the factory. The word, in my opinion is badly over used, in much the same way that restored can mean they had many cans of Krylon and used all of them to hide stuff.
FWIW I place a pretty high value on a survivor. But I tend to be more fussy than most. To me it needs to be darn near bone stock and absolutely must be original paint. And a car that has issues like a certain '68 GT that a jackhole on the other site is trying to sell, I consider it a project car not a survivor.
A great example of “survivor” would be that Cougar with, what was it, 35 miles on it, in a storage facility, IIRC?? Blue/white?? Details escape me on it, but it’s over on mc.net, I’m sure Bill B, or others remember the one I’m talking about!!!