Anyone see this insane auction?
 

Amazing to me:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1970-Plymouth-Cuda-Convertible-V-code-440-Six-Pack-4-sp_W0QQitemZ280069240062QQihZ018QQcategoryZ6409QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#Photo

I wish I found that exact car in an old ladies barn and offered her 500$ for it....

i would not think that high of prices possible with a non hemi car.

looks like one too many zeros to me.

tom w

Dont get me wrong, those cars are probably the best looking vehicles to come out of detroit in the seventies but it's not worth 6 to 7 figures. I would rather have a daily driven clone then blow that much on a "rare" fixer upper.

My thoughts exactly.

i am pretty sure some rare hemi equipped cars have topped the mil mark. a cuda i think.

this million dollar bid has to be fake.

nigeria anyone?

tom w

No,no..this cannot be. I'm in the midst of negotiating for a Goddamn Bugatti type 40 for $35,000.00 and we have this misbegotten piece of poorly cared for crap for how much?Jeez! my partners and I just sold a Superbird with matching #'s for only $20,000.00. Something's wrong.

I cannot figure out how any dodge could be worth more than $5000 hemi or no hemi.

You can thank Barrett-Jackson for this silliness, and this guy thinks Boyd Coddington is going to shell out a million bucks for this piece? Ever see Boyd bargain for a car? It's rusty under the hood for crying out loud...

For a Cuda? This is even beyond Barrett-Jackson.

We must be missing something about this particular car.
I just went through the books for this years Barrett-Jackson. Nothing I found in the Cuda line was a million dollars. The top Cuda was a 71 custom built by Alan Johnson. Went for 588.5K. It was cherry/custom 572 hemi 6-spd. The rest of the original mint restored Cudas went for low to mid 100s. A couple (AARs I think) in the 280.5 to 330.0 range. But nothing looking like this (or mint), for 770K+. Is this the only numbers matching 440 6-pack in existence? Still.....A mill for 70’s muscle? We gotta be missing something.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/cardetail.asp?id=183447

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/cardetail.asp?id=182895

Sixto
93 300SD 3.0

Wow. One million for a backyard find and 2 mil. for a fully restored one. I had no idea.

If you're like me and had no idea a 1970 Plymouth could fetch such a price, you may enjoy some further reading...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Barracuda

Overvalued
 

:confused: The actual build quality on all of these generation Mopar muscle cars was awful and they were rust buckets too. I remember test driving a '73 Challenger that looked awfully good, but what a tinny, feeling it had. You could tell it was haphazardly put together, and wouldn't last long under normal use. I think that was why not too many survived.

However they could go very fast in a straight line and their design is attractive. A lot of ageing baby boomers seeking to recapture or relive their youth are driving the prices up beyond all reason. Tv shows like Nash Bridges with the Hemi Cuda convertibles and "Vanishing Point" with the Challenger serve to fan the flames.

They are for sure fast noisy and sexy looking but I can't help but think of the Ray Stevens song "Take care of business, Mr. Businessman" with the line "placing value on the worthless, disregarding priceless wealth"

But for a thinking person, the money could be more wisely spent on other cars, or other things actually! But to each their own

Well, they probably gave some poor old lady $300.00 or less for the car,too.
It was probably an old couples dead son's car or something like that and they just stowed it away,and never would have thought twice about it. That's how I got my 1970 Yenko Nova w/14,000 original miles on it. I paid full sticker price of $4,100.00 for it thought to the old guy. He bought ti new for his son as a gift in 1969 for coming home from Vietnam unscathed. The kid drove it for two years, and died in a car wreck w/friends. The old guy put the kids car in the garage,and closed the door,and never touched it 'till I came along 24 years later and bought it. I've had the car for 13 years now,and have put on maybe 400 miles more in all that time. I know it would ebay for a good $180.000.oo all day long if I would ever part with it..Why should I though?

The supposed high-bidder withheld his ID. I imagine shills would want to hide that.

Then again, who knows. Nostalgia is powerful stuff and those muscle car days do bring back some memories of a more idyllic time. No AIDS and no global warming and gas for .35 a gallon.