Amazing to me:

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

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1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

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

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

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.

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Satan creates nothing: he only ruins everything. He does not invent: he tampers. And his followers are no different ~ Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

My thoughts exactly.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

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

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

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.

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Uh, yeah. I know the whole thing about the baby boomers trying to recapture their youth but that's what they were saying when the Ferraris were the thing around '89-90. I think this is just crazy. In 1985, had you asked me whether I would rather own a W126 or that purple Dodge Challenger belonging to the hicks down the street (at the time)... I would have looked at you as though you were insane. Well, I guess I made *my* choice. See sig.

I agree with Hat, $50K car tops in top shape. Peter Egan of R&T agrees, BTW, I read his thoughts on the bizarre Cuda mania but I can't find the issue. It was in Side Glances.

It's just part of the rednecking of America. When I can buy a nice house in Scottsdale, a new E class, a new Mustang GT ragtop (which does basically exactly the same job as the Cuda!), and a *FERRARI DAYTONA CONCOURS WINNER* for the cost of a Plymouth Barracuda, something's gone awry!!

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1985 300TD
1984 380SL
1983 280SE (full Euro, trunk triangle and all!)

Formerly owned:
1986 420SEL
1984 300D
1983 300D
1981 300SD
1976 300D

Awry, indeed.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Even a rusted, engineless bare frame will fetch good money. Anything that was an original HEMI.

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...

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1987 300D Turbo "Greta" 170k
1990 Ford F250 "Marnie" 93k

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.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

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.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

That's not the doing of the bidder, unless the bidder also happens to be the seller . It's a "private listing" in which all bidder's ID's are suppressed - seller's choice.

FYI, even for auctions that are not configured as private listings, eBay now sometimes anonymizes the bidders as "Bidder 1", "Bidder 2", etc. This can be the case even when viewing the bid histories for completed items. From eBay:

Personally, I don't particularly care for any of this; I prefer greater transparency. I doubt that the folks who run eBay particularly care how I feel about it, though!