71 4 speed aqua W-30 hits 200K

[bruno17]

hi Colin,
I'm Bruno.Mario is my biz partner.Yes,I rec'd pics and forwarded them to him.He's on the fence...69 or 70 fence.
Keep an eye on those Kryta boys......last seen at gto show with high dollar 69 judge in piece o'crap cammo.
It was sooooo......delicious!

[flyingn]

Yea I smell lots o shills on that auction

[TimG]

I better buy a 442 quick. Still love them and the prices are sure to come on strong. There's a very nice X code '72 Hurst Olds here in town.

[csx289]

Hmmmmm....high bidder is a Kryta from Detroit and the underbidder is a Kryta from Detroit??? Remember the HMM magazine when the one brother was dressed up as Dr. Olds? Underbidder "Dr. Olds"? Bid jumps from the 30k range to 100k, then the next bid is 200k? Last auction it ended in the 40's? Yeah, the market moves fast, but not THIS fast!

Disclaimer: I could be COMPLETELY wrong on this, but I am still going to say I smell a rat. No offense.

[Canuck]

I am holding a pair of 71 W-30 Converts,in complementry Christmas colors.

If those bids are real money (I think not) it could be time to retire.

Colin,What are you doing with that White W-30 you bought a few months ago on ebay?

[nuch_ss396]

I like these cars too, but come on ! $200K ? WTH !!

I don't think these cars are in the same performance league
to command those dollars. What do you guys think?

Steve

[agtw31]

when you want your car worth $200K,make sure others sell for that much.

trying to manipulate this market can get expensive,though.

[csx289]

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-------Colin,,,Sorry to go a bit off-topic, but did that Cammer-Cobra have any Ft.Lauderdale history??? There was a converted Cammer in Ft.Lauderdale back in the early 70s.It was a dark color, maybe BRG back then. When it ran it really had some cojones, but the owner was always having small problems with it. Car is gorgeous by the way!!!!...........Bill S

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Hi Bill,
Nope, not the same car. My car had the engine installed a little later - and was in Colorado all through the 70's. It was originally blue, then painted black around 1970 as far as I can tell. Later painted again by Bill Murray, then Mike McCluskey, two Cobra "heavies".

I met a guy in Monterey who saw the car on a dyno in the mid-80's, said at 580HP (rwhp) the tires started coming apart and hitting the body so they backed off. He is the guy that eventually bought it and sold it at B-J for $250k... a world record at the time.

Every Cobra has a good story, don't they?

Colin

[csx289]

My (2) 71 W30 converts are waiting for me to find the time to restore them. Well, the time and the $$$ - same old story. The 71 W30 hardtop is my driver, I could drive the ebay car, a.k.a the "Joe Dirt W30" around here, but those Town & Country snow tires are pretty slippery That, and the previous owner's bumper sticker that says "If you're RICH, I'm SINGLE!". Really.

Colin

[csx289]

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I don't think these cars are in the same performance league
to command those dollars. What do you guys think?


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Steve,
I think they are in the same performance leauge, no question. They just don't have the name recognition like a Yenko, for example. The W cars are reasonably rare and IMHO very undervalued in the big picture. I'd rather have a good W30 4 speed over a Hemi Cuda 4 speed, if they were both $1.00. The B/O/P cars just drive so much better than their competitors did. My black W30 is really nice to drive, even on bias ply tires. My Hemi car, bless its heart, tries to be a nice car but is still like driving a dump truck. If you had to have ONE car, I bet a lot of guys would pick a GS/442/GTO. But, I've been wrong before.

Now is the eBay car worth $200k? Not to me, it looks a little tired - I figured it for $75k the last time it ran.

Colin