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https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-shelby-mustang-gt500-32/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Model_Update

Looks nice!

So a guy can keep bashing Pete. I try and post and it doesn't take. Tried to post again and this is what I get. More proof BAT is a joke. I'm back on their radar.

Yes, I am also not allowed to post lately, on most any car, including Corvettes. I have bought 4 cars on BaT, and sold 4 through my friend. But I am not allowed my opinion either.

Hey Mike
I see the rust Amigo
You still have ur KR?

I don't Biggy, sold it several years ago.

Well, I have to admit I just don't get the attraction of a rust bucket like this. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot barge pole and a full hazmat suit.

Yes, I forgot, everything has a price at BaT, so anyone can pay extra to get a "Premium" listing. But this one is one of the worst I have seen. But who knows what people want to spend money on, I was amazed at this piece of a body that sold for $70,000.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1963-chevrolet-corvette-coupe-192/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Model_Update

Anything is possible.

This just looks like a neglected, rusty, piece of junk. How BaT could label this a "Premium" auction is a travesty.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1968-shelby-mustang-gt500kr-20/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Model_Update

A little rusty?

Pete, Mike Johnson(used to have a lime god 68 KR that Tim did and a Corvette judge and 65 owner) asked for your insight there as he is BigTanks and you havew not responded. Shame on you  .

I never expect a reply from Pete. He is a very important and busy man, I am just a peon who knows nothing.

Thanks so much for doing this, always a treat and great to see and visit with so many old friends.

Yes, Pete loves discussions like that.

Excellent, always the highlight of the BJ auction time. Hope you have some good taco wagons there.

There is one thing, however, that I feel we should all care about or at the very least consider: the standards in place including the pp who have devoted their time and knowledge to document and share them, deserve our thanks.  Buyers can then decide what to do with it.  Perhaps a bit vauge and obtuse, but you get the point...

I agree, and I thank them (me being one in the Corvette world) for their efforts. However, when it comes to buying a car these days, IMO, there are fewer and fewer people who want to pay for the highest level of perfection and "correctness". "Incorrect" fasteners, rivets, over spray, etc. do not contribute to the driving enjoyment of most of the new buyers of these cars, and most will never have them judged by the gurus who know all things about being "correct", so who cares?

Yes, I see the same kind of angst, frustration, and consternation in my Corvette world these days. The older people, like me, who have been judged, been judges, and taught and experienced in the "correct" way to do things and fixated on "originality" and "correctness" see things that just curl our hair. I judged some cars at our Frisco, Texas NCRS regional meet a couple of weeks ago in our new "Open" Class of judging, where originality and decades of experience and research on a standard of "as delivered from the factory" means absolutely nothing. The old guard was totally confused and some angry about cars not even remotely based on that standard being allowed and winning awards.

Likewise with the current restomod craze, where beat up, trashed out, non-original (and some original) drivetrain cars are having the bodies being yanked off frames and used for a $250K-$350K car, like the iconic '63 SWC, so things like this sell for near $100K these days.

The younger folks not trained, schooled, and experienced in our "all correct, all original" ways are setting up a market these days that focuses more on cars and coffee, and local car shows than organized judging like SAAC and NCRS do. They are proud of their cars and are quite willing to ignore the "correct" way and just enjoy their cars in their own way and pay 6 figures to do it, as they can afford it and most couldn't care less about resale, investment values, etc. We need to get used to it, they are the ones driving the market today, not us.

Excellent, now a choice of where you want to have your car judged.

Now that would be very nice for those of us who are not playing boy racers.