----Auction ended about 50 minutes ago. You could have knocked me over with a feather as my W-30 brought $40,000. I had prepared myself for $30,000 or there abouts, and at the end the bidding went crazy. Even at $40,000 I'm loosing a bit, but 40 was all I ever thought I would get anyway with the lack of paperwork and several important parts not original....Bill S

Congrats Bill,very nice car.

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Somebody got a great car...congrats.

-wilma

Congrats on your sale too, Bill and happy for you that the sell price was a pleasant bonus.

Congrats on the sale. I just bought another car before I saw the ad. If I had the room I would have been all over it.

I don't know why, but from time to time I start to worry about other folks' issues, & I was really experiencing a bit of heartburn on this one. I saw the bidding stalled at around $23k and just felt like it was a crime. Almost sent you a PM to see if you would deliver to MCACN, as i considered bidding, if for no other reason than to get the price up.

Really relieved for you Bill. $42,500 is not at all out of line for such a quality car, paperwork or not. I don't have ANY paperwork for my car, and NCRS can't even tell me who the original dealer was. We have a zone code and dealer code, but no one can tell for certain. Paul (winvoices) believes it is a dealer that starts with S. Beyond that, we just don't know. I refuse to get a reproduction WS or POP or any of the other docs that could be used to misrepresent the car someday.

Your car pretty much speaks for itself. Really glad you did well. We can't expect to get back everything we put in on every car.

Some cars can speak for themselves.

Congratulations Bill,
I was happily surprised when I saw the final result.
That is exactly what you had said you wanted.
It was a magnificent restoration. Turned out to be a great deal for everyone.

Good goin' Bill - a cool car to have had!

Congratulations Bill,

I’m sure this was a bittersweet experience, but I’m thinking you feel relieved of having one less car to be concerned with.

Take care, Chris.

----Thanks, Chris. Although it was my last complete resto I knew it was destined to not be as valuable as a paper worked W-30. Initially it was meant as a way to use all the parts off another 442 which had the body burned to a crisp in my shop fire. A whole bunch of the stuff for that car was no where near the building with the fire and I felt that the W-30 would be a way to use all the remaining beautiful California parts on a car that would actually be worth more than the other cars safely out of the fire parts....Bill S