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Anyone else here?

I am!!!!

Jay,you going to back for the show sat?Tom

I'll be there Tom. This was a last minute trip to help a friend with s car.

I was watching the hour special before the auction.

I kept shaking my head at the main BJ guy, he kept on saying over and over "we have a lot of VIN number one cars this year."

You would think a guy that's been around cars as much as he would know better.

They did talk a bit abut some of the rare Ponchos they have this year including one of the Swiss cheese cats.

Not there, but just watched a 69 Firebird convertible, 400 auto, reported as a #s match, blue on black deluxe interior and black top. Sold for $37,000 a little low to my thinking.

And a 76 T/A 455 4speed, Red on tuxedo, most options. Sold for $38,500, higher then I would have thought.

I watched yesterdays Scottsdale today at lunch. Some of the cars sold were good deals, others not. The first two days are the best as far as prices to quality ratio go. You can buy one of those decent cars and not be afraid to go to cruise night.
Lots of misinformation out there describing the cars as usual. I muted the TV when some blond described a 64 Pontiac GTO tri-Power a 325 hp engine. I'm sure glad I have a DVR. Mute the overbearing music, and the misinformation, and what the host did in the back seat of the car featured when he was a teenager, skip the uninteresting cars and you have a one day show that last for twelve minutes at best.

Eagerly awaiting the '63 Superduty to go across the block. It has a reserve though.

Definitely record it and fast forward through the junk you don't care about. I swear its half commercials.

Unless something has changed, BJ always goes to commercial when a Pontiac
arrives on the block.

Not tonight.... $100,000 for an '80 TA.....really????
Ya 700 something miles but never thought it would go that high.

Look at that 80 TA yesterday, very nice car almost smell new inside. It's was nice to see all the imperfections from the factory!

i used to have the bj on in the background and plan for a certain lot that was coming up just for them it insert another commercial. For a while it seemed EVERY Pontiac didn't make it live.

If it were'nt for Gas Monkey would the T/A have made it on air?

Can't wait to see the SD!

Just before the $100,000 750mile 1980 S.E. T/A a 1977 S.E. T/A 400ci auto #match restoration car sold for $75000. The buyer was Richard Rawlings from Gas Monkey garage. I never would have thought these cars would go that high.

I will be there on Friday and Saturday.

Jeez, some of those trans ams were a dime a dozen 10 years ago.

I used to go almost every Carlisle PA show back in the late 80 through the mid 90's. There was a guy up there that always had a pair of TA's or firebirds up on a display stand that were always supposedly 500 mile original mileage cars with the plastic bags still on the seats. They were clean low mileage cars but we always speculated he had found a warehouse full of interior seat bags to add to the cars after some super cleaning and detailing work. It was hard to believe he could keep finding these cars in such immaculate pristine condition but the buyers never seemed to care if they were really that original, they sold every show for 10-15k which seemed like crazy money for those back then. The next show, he'd have another pair of them and they'd sell again. We laughed about how those guys were probably master artists putting junkers back into perfect condition with a couple of ex-showroom guys coaching the cars to perfection and were taking all these guys to the cleaners on the cash. Damn, I sure wish I'd bought one of them back then, 100k for an 81 turbo-TA??!?!?!? I looked at one on a used car lot with super low mileage on it years ago for the wife. It was pretty, white with a silver interior. we passed on it because she didn't like the silver interior and also it was a Canadian car and had a KM speedo in it. Guy offered some cardboard sticker to put over the glass so it would tell mph instead!

Definitely agree on the DVR thing, it's unwatchable live with all the moronic chatter and commercials. Not sure I get a full 12 minutes of viewing time out of the 3 hours though, you must have a greater interest range than me on the cars!

Live Stream!
No commercials, No on stage experts, No goofy ring-man antics,
just car after car after car...
I stream while doing other work and you can see the lot list as the Pontiac's are coming up

Rawlings is always complaining on his show about how broke he is. He made some comment about knowing what he likes in a car...he won't be able to flip that T/A and make a profit...

Anybody know what he sold that red 74 SD T/A for?
On the show, he claimed he paid $35K for it.

He sold it to his buddy dennis for I think 45k who claimed to have a buyer lined up for $55k. Or at least thats what the narrative said.

I remember thinking "Why are these guys selling that car to a known low-balling flip artist?" They knew what they had and had all the docs to go with it. They could have easily gotten that $55K (or better) themselves.

IIRC, the wheels were the only incorrect items on that beautiful car.

The 77 and 80 Special Edition TA's were crazy money. The sky's the limit on those cars. I think they are the most sought after 1975-1986 American made car now with collectors (1987 GNX's still pull a lot of money).

That 80 TA SE was so special because of the low miles. But it was only a few years ago that a guy was trying to sell a 1979 TA 10th Anniversary 400 4-speed (which was always far more desirable than any other 75-81 TA from a collector standpoint) with under 100 miles for $30,000, and there were no takers.

About 10 years ago, the Special Edition cars were selling for $15K-$25K, now fully restored or low mileage originals seem to get $40K or more, and the 10th Anniversary cars are still around $30K.

I bet Trans Am Specialties in Florida is jumping for joy. They have at least 25 Special Edition cars in stock at all times.

Mike

BJ went to commercial just before a gold 66' GTO came up. Told my girl it was time for a comm break and sure enough it happened. I changed the channel and didn't go back!

Don't think Gas Monkey TV will give you the real costs of what they put into their flippers like the salary and benefit costs of their techs, building costs, taxes, etc... They seem to focus on parts and outsourced costs of their projects. Bet they do good on their Gas Monkey merchandise stuff though, and now I think they opened a bar?

lol
Maybe he thinks he can "put a little of that Gas Monkey attitude " into it and sell it for a profit.:gag:

I think they opened a restaurant...

I keep forgetting these folks don't deal with ordinary working folks like most of us here.

Their clientele are mostly folks with megabucks, folks that have so much money, that paying 10 times what a classic car is worth, is chump change to them.

The black 77 and 80 T/A's are both in that catagory...or maybe the buyers both just really like the cars, they are both top condition Pontiacs. I'm guessing the guy that bought the 80 may have bought it because of the mileage AND because the car was exceptionally nice.

The 80 has strong feelings that the 77 movies cars have, probably carried over...Pontiacs finally getting the credit as super cars they deserve. Seeing overprices mopars gets old....

I wonder how many beers "A$$monkey" had consumed?:eek:

I guess, unless he tells us there will be no way to know what he was thinking. But I don't think he was thinking clearly.

HOLY crap170K for a 77 T/A,true no miles BUT WTF?Tom

OK now I've see it all, The 7 mile on the clock 1979 TATA 400 4speed car just hammered at $170,000

fat fingered yep 79

wow. Nuts. A car that you could not give away 15 years ago

From what I am seeing..... it looks like the prices for original / stock muscle cars are rebounding... good sign.....

As much as I like resto mods and pro-touring machines ..... I love to see the original stuff come back into its own....

7 miles.

What a waste. $170k for a car you can't drive because if you did it becomes just another old Pontiac.

Another stratosphere high dollar car. Ones never driven for 30 years... No thanks, not for me.

Are the SE the new SDs?

Barrett Jackson always leaves me guessing with their new trends...

I wonder how drivable a 7 mile car would be? stuff not made to sit.... large model but cool.

301? Lmao like Norwood says, who wants them.

I don't think money like this can or will hold up over time. Things don't apprechiate at a 300% rate over night. These cars will not see this money ever again unless its a fixed deal. As for Rawlings he is no dummy and has already got his moneys worth of publicity from this.

Holy crap 500k BR TA!

You think Burt's signature was worth $400,000?

:eek:

The RA IV convert beat the 71 convt Judge.

:eek:

:):)

Sorry, Boss, looked like the RA II got no respect.

:confused:

But the 67 RA I did good.

:)

Still Pontiacs are on fire! Big money--- finally

63 Catalina Super Duty only a couple away..

$375k. That's it? No sale. Maybe if Burt Reynolds sat in it it would have brought more.....

375,000. Reserve not met. Is that Bill Blair's car? I heard it was for sale.

Wish the RAII would have gone higher, but think it was that particular car based on the other sales.
Nothing against anyone that owns one, but that int. color has to be the worst for resale.

Bills car is the Beswick Passionate Poncho.Tom

IMO the most valuable would be the Royal and the Beswick cars and then the M/T cars.To me the Beswick car would be number 1.Tom