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Ah, the power of the entertainment industry.
I've been after a '67 Shelby GT-500 for awhile now, and have had a wild ride tracking their values. Just a few years ago, you could get a nice driver-quality '67 GT-500 in the mid-30's. In fact, I overheard at a SAAC meet that the '67's were considered one of the least desirable. This was great for me, because the '67's consistenly had the lowest prices on the market of any of the '65-'70 Shelby's.
Then, the cheese-ball movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" comes out, highlighting a '67 GT-500 clone in the starring role of Eleanor, and instantly '67 GT-500's double in price.
A year or so later, Eleanor clones and GT-500E's start popping up everywhere, and the prices of original's go up another 15%, causing my derriere to really start puckering.
NOW, some rich goof with more money than sense pays $260K for an "original"...that has American Racing wheels on it!!! I don't even want to know what this will do to the rest of the cars on the market, but I can pretty much resign myself to the fact that they are WAY out of the "average joe's" price range.
I personally blame Jerry Bruckenheimer for the fact that I will never own a '67 GT-500. WHY didn't he film his crappy film remake using a '71-73 Mustang...like the original??? There are plenty of those boats still cruising around for Sanderson to make their fugly replica's out of!
Rant done.
Russ
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