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Originally Posted by REAL 1
While prices paid over the recent year for Continuation series vary, depending on car, auction, sellers motivation and buyers present and motivation this validates the "inherent value" in the fact that this was a "Shelby" and a "genuine Cobra" (and not a "replica" of one) and clearly perceived as such by buyers. This was even a fiberglass car.
You guys can flame on but the proof of what I've been saying is in the pudding.
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So then what you are saying also goes to the two FFR "donor style builds" that went for $42,000 and $44,550 respectively. While logic dictates it is so do to the sale prices listed (funny how several of these cars end up back in the hands of their original sellers a week or two down the road), further review of just how a BJ auction is orchestrated,right down to the background sounds, music piped in, lighting, food/drink offered, etc shows that not all is as it seems. The fine folks at BJ have their auctions honed and tuned as if a Stratovarius violin. From the time a registered bidder walks through the door, BJ knows exactly what he has looked at, what he has eaten/drank, and in some cases his/her each and every footstep in and out of the door. Again they have it down to an art, and prices realized while at their auction are not to be considered "real world" values once that particular vehicles leaves the auction grounds. I say the above with confidence, not only as an outsider looking in this year, but someone who has participated in these auctions (both as a buyer and a seller) for quite some time. I'll leave the rest of the real vs not argument to the usual suspects as that is not what my post is about.
Bill S.