Are They Worth It?

[Whaler]

I have been watching a collectors car auction on the Speed channel.

A 2005 Ford Shelby GT serial #3, 1&2 kept by the Ford family, went for $530,000.

A 1947 Bently MK6 convertable, beautiful, went for $1,600,000.

A 1931 Bently coupe, ugly as sin, went for $350,000.

A 1999 Mercedes 300SL Gull Wing "REPLICA" went for $225,00.

I haven't seen anything sell for under $80,000.

These people have to much money on their hands.

[Pappy]

I've caught some of it this year but not a lot. Last year they sold Howard Huges' last car...Just over a half million. (something around a 55/56 buick)

[Otter]

more money than sence

but that is what pays the bills at my company....it is a good thing.

[Warren]

Nobody can have too much money! Especially if they're married and have children. The "wants" always increas disporportionately to the available cash.

Heck, I don't even think there's such a thing as enough money. Especially if you're into woodworking. Most escpeially if you're into collecting hand planes.

Imagine being married with children and collecting planes.

Nope! No such thing as too much money.

[just4funsies]

Seeing cars bring that kind of price gives me hope that I might someday get righteous cash for my '90 T-Bird...

[Russianwolf]

If I recall correctly the most ever spent on a car at auction was for a

late fifties Ferrari 250GTO I forget the driver that raced it.

Something in the range of $14 million.

$600000? chump change.

Edit, just checked Guinness, Most valuable car is a Bugatti Type 41.......... $15Mill

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...recordid=43465

[WayneJ]

I wonder what it must be like to have that much money and not be able to find anything to spend it on. The owner probably won't ever drive it How much enjoyment can you get from letting it sit in the garage? I'm refering to that 1947 Bently. It must be an ego trip.
Wayne

[Mrs. Wallnut]

I have been watching that also Whaler. And some people just have way to much money.

But those cars won't even be driven at all or started up, My feeling on that is that if your going to buy a show car..then you should show it off, by driving it around and letting people look and drool over it. That is why my parents have old cars. They spend their summers going to car shows and showing their cars plus looking at all the other cars around the shows.

Wish I was there and when someone felt like spending that kind of money on a car then I can just tell them to donate it to me

[JR]

These people have to much money on their hands.

While riding my bicycle on the local mountain roads yesterday I saw at least six Ferraris. Probably twice that many Porsches. A Lambo. A Lotus.

At least they're driving them, and pretty sanely as well. There also dozens of motorcycles out, a few of them being ridden by fools. I saw three bike passing on a double-yellow line into blind right curve. Fortunately the oncoming vehicle was another bike or two of them would have been toast for sure.

JR

[sacherjj]

I was talking with my Turning teacher before class last week. He is getting pulled in as an adviser to some guy with too much money to setup shop in Indy. He used to be in racing and has a building that is 1.5x the size of the Woodcraft shop we were in, somewhere near gasoline alley (near the Indy Race track.) The guy has someone who handles ordering and having delivered whatever he needs. The place is filled up with about everything General makes, a whole wall of workbenches, and anything that he thinks he might need to work. It would be good to have a friend with more money than sense that liked woodworking!

[MilDoc]

Nothing material is worth anything unless someone else wants it ...