I bid on a pair of 67 fender scoops ,thought I was nuts for bidding $400.00,but someone has the priviledge of being more than twice as nuts as me.Thats really accomplishing something.$835.00 winning bid.
I saw that and said holy crap!!!!!!!!1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...&item=7964068941&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT My pit free originals must be worth 400.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same person also paid $222 for a set of hood letters http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33646&item=7964065376&rd=1 He must be putting together a really nice '67 with these cool NOS parts. Sometimes only the best parts will do.... I've paid some crazy prices in the past when I see something I REALLY want for one of my cars.
I saw those letters going for that amount and was amazed. I ordered a set from a company that sells repro's for $29.99 for my driver. I wonder how different they are from these NOS ones? As you said he must be putting togetehr one hell of a nice 67.
If anyone has a nice set of 67 fender louvers with no pits let me know I will pay good money for a nice set. Tim
Holy crap! Whooda thunk those would even be worth $200 much less $800+?? :eek2: But now that I think about it..... I've NEVER seen an NOS pair before. o No:
$800.00 is ludacris when ou consider about a day before ebay came along you could have driven the asking price down at a swap meet.I thought $400.00 was excessive but would have paid that.Sometimes ebay really sucks!!
Hea I read in a money magazine that investing in old car parts now will make much more money than the stock market. If that is happening he needs to read about not buying at the top + in the market. Can these prices keep going like this? o No:
you do know that at least two people 'beat your bid to death' right? someone else had to have bid over $800 or the auto-rebidding function would have put in a ~$410 bid and left it at that and you never would have found out that he was willing to spend $850 (maybe even more) on it.
Who knew that molded pot metal would be worth more than silver or gold. I have a couple of pitted lesabre ventiports that I will give away for $100.00 each :laugh:
NOS can be scary.... Im sure most of yall know this...but parts that sit for 30+ years can be garbage. I worked in the parts dept at a nissan dealer here for 3 yrs. Every inventory I counted some of the same parts that had been there since the 70s at the old stores.They are in the nastiest,dirtiest water damaged boxes that the tape has long de-taped itself from the box. Trim parts,painted parts,interior parts and god forbid body parts are almost unusable after just a few years from dust,water and the handling they get either getting counted every year or pushed to the side to make room. Body parts are usually hung by hooks or stacked on edge,IF the parts are lucky enough to have survived shipping or store to store moving or returned (alot of the times painted) from body shops. Then on top of all that,some of the replacement parts are "catch all" which run across a few years after superceding with a different part no.,and might be a shade difft in color or you have to buy other stuff to make it work on your model. Can you imagine the 70 GS grille going thru a life on ,say, a top shelf. Fragile,barely boxed well enough and light enough to put up on a top shelf but big enough to snag and send to the floor by smackin in with other parts. I wonder what the survival rate is on those puppies. Oh well thats my outlook..Id rather put my hands on it in person than gamble with a picture on the net...ciao...fish
E-bay ignorance Everyone wants parts for their car, I howl when I set my maximum bid the same as you would pay at Napa and the snippers and the ignorant move in for the kill!!!
