8 hrs to go. Good luck with sale and looking forward to seeing next build.


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Counting pennies...
 

Counting pennies and trying to sell a kidney to place my bid!

GLWTA! Can't wait to see what you build next!

CURRENT BID: $115,000 ENDS IN:


Come on baby!!!

CURRENT BID: $131,000

This is crazy, every time someone bids, it adds 2 minutes to end of auction...

Congrats Curtis!
Awesome that you had those guys wanting your car. Made for a good auction.

That was fun to watch... Happy I just stumbled onto the end of it... :D

Congrats Curtis, hope you are happy. On to the next one!!

That was AWESOME! so happy for you Curtis and it was a pleasure to watch the evolution of this car!

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Nice jump at the end, good for you

Curtis to BAT...

Congrats Curtis!

Congrats Curtis! Hope it brought as much as you wanted.

What a crazy day! When the listing FINALLY went up on BaT it jumped from an opening bid of $5k to $91967.00 over night and then sat there over the holiday weekend. Monday it went up to $93k and parked there for the remainder of the week. I had considered taking today off, but it didn't look like it was going to meet the reserve so I didn't call out. Work actually called and pushed my show time back to 3pm, which turned out to be a good thing. I was able to take a few calls on the car during the last 30 min, but still the bidding wasn't moving. The auction was set to expire at 1:05 and at 1pm bidding started, but very slow. Didn't look like it would go. I was talking to John on the phone and texting with Brycen when things started to take off. When it passed my reserve, I posted "Reserve Met" and that seemed to intensify the bidding. Probably not, but it seemed that way. Brycen asked what I really wanted for the car and I told him $150k, but I didn't think it would get there. Well.... I was wrong and happy to be so.

My ego wanted to beat the 68 that went for $130k, so that was a bonus. :lol:

It's a bitter sweet day and I will miss the car. It's a lot of fun to drive and I've had a great time with it.

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A few parting shots.

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Congrats, sad to see it go. Awesome car for the price.


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Damn, great money!!! congrats

Who's the white girl, ie: no tan.....

Congratulations Curtis, well worth the money. I didn't think you'd have a hard time selling it.

That’s Savana. She’s super down to earth and easy going.

Oh I knew it would go. Question was if I could
Get a decent price for it. I did decent.

Your paint scrapers have been gone for a looooong time. :lol:

Hummm. Ive been debating about building something else as well. That website has some great traction and it gives me a idea what my car is worth as well. Congrats

I watched a few auctions on BaT before signing up. Initially I was impressed but things quickly changed and they went silent. Emails, phone calls and messages via Social Media where ignored. I gave up and disputed the CC charge which got their attention. I gave the rep the time line for everything and he agreed they had dropped the ball, but assured me the car would be listed quickly. Twelve days late I sent him another message asking what he would be thinking if he where in my position...I was contacted the next day about getting the car listed. That process took a week. From submission to listing was excessive IMO. Now they are getting busier and I understand that, but I was told two weeks when I first made contact. They didn’t push the listing other than on the BaT website. I expected it to pop up on their Social Media sites. Their IG page has 254k followers. It’s a numbers game and I was disappointed by their lack of commitment. I pushed the car on IG as hard as I could and asked everyone I know to spread the word. I’m sure that helped to some extent. All the positive comments helped a great deal. Other listings tend to have a lot of questions and comments that don’t directly apply to the listing. Thanks to the LG crew and friends some Social Media platforms, my listing was nothing but support for the car being very well built and me being OCD. :lol:

If you list with them, get an estimated time line, be prepared to push the car via social media on your own and stay on top of them. I also recommend hiring someone that shoots cars to take photos for you. They see details like we do and it shows in their work. Driving video is a plus as is the function of items like power locks, windows, etc. set your reserve at or very near to the price you would accept if you haggled with a buyer in person. They will try get you to come down on it.

They don’t seem to understand Pro touring cars. CHC was the ground breaker for them and it’ll catch on in time. May take some explaining on your part as to why you want what you want.

Good Luck! :captain:

It was a great listing to watch.

A couple years ago I listed my SLP Camaro and it took them 3 weeks to get it listed. Absolutely zero promotion from them and horrible at best communication. I was hoping they would have got better but it sounds like they still have work to do.

Looking back I will ask to profs the listing and how they sort the pictures. I might even consider adding notes/comments directly on the photo with dates so people can see how the car started and how it ended up.

I love that you used Instagram to promote the car. Might try something like that as well.


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You liked my comment about you being OCD. LOL
I was starting to think that maybe there was too many people gushing about how great a car you built. Like it was slowing down the bidding. It worked out though. congrats on the sale.
Now where is this new build of yours?

Yeah that didn’t hurt! 😂

Bought an LS7 and shipped it to Katech. Have to nail down suspension and then find a body still. It’s in the works.

Here’s the perfect body… I’ve decided to sell it:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...et-camaro-132/

Been watching that one. Super clean. Hope you’re able to get what you want for it. Market is crazy right now.

You got that right. A decent C5 Z06 is 30k right now. I've been thinking about picking up a red headed step child, but I'm hesitant to lay out the bread at the moment.

I’m in the same boat. Wanting to buy a truck, but used ones are selling for more than new ones at the moment due to the chip shortage. Figure I can drive the Malibu for a bit longer. At least it gets decent MPG.

I just sold my one owner 2002 GMC 2500HD with 8.1 and Allison and 246,000 miles on it for $14,000. It was a $10,000 truck for years...

Sad part is, I miss it and I know I'll have sellers remorse for a while about it.

It's crazy what used car/truck prices have been lately.

Where do you guys think car prices will settle in say 1-3 years?

My guess is new car prices (MSRP) will stay on track with inflation. Once the chip shortage is resolved (maybe end of next year) manufactures and dealers will want to move product, but also need/want to make every dollar they can after a couple of years with little coming in. I’d expect to pay close to MSRP. If that happens, I would expect the used car market to remain over priced. Or it could be a total blowout by manufactures flooding the market with new cars and destroying the used car market. I’m never right on this kind of thing.

To a large degree, it's all relative. My used car I plan to trade went up in value 10% so the spread is less imposing to upgrade. The inflation will hurt buying power a little. It's the first time buyers and those looking for a major upgrade that will get blind sided with debt.

Perhaps the market was due for some natural inflation, but I see it as vastly overheated at the moment. When a Toyota RAV4 is selling for 5-10k over MSRP, that's red flag for me. HA That's impulse, impatience, and supply and demand at work.

As the tide goes out, it always comes back in. I agree inflation will play it's part and we'll likely settle into a more reasonable market in the short term. At some point people run out of money and optimism. But hey, I've been wrong a few times. ha Personally, I'll do my best to stay content with the perfectly fine vehicles we have in the garage.

Seemed like a better way to END this thread. :whistling:

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Now that’s a freekin picture🥳👍🤩…big brakes, body line pops, mountains in the background, some barbed wire, blue sky! Wow! 😂😂😂

She looks a little sketchy…not that there’s anything wrong with that.

:P

"Body Lines" aye. :lol: Check out the rockers.

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She's not one to piss off I'll tell you that. Probably the only person that could get away leaning on the car. :underchair:

Rockers..really? With those legs in the way!! 😂😂😂

Is this any better? :yes:

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A little better😂…you have these pics and are not sharing!! 🤬🤬🤬…😂..we want more!! Ok I want more!! 🥳😂🥳😂