Welcome aboard. We are usually VERY friendly group around here, so please try to include a first name at the conclusion of your posts.....
Will do, I am juggling the usual spread sheets and figuring out how to get quiet time to knock out budget numbers, yes here it work. Would rather be cleaning up the ebay bought B4B manifold. $217. to my door in SF. Be savvy with that ebay and know when to say when. Ebay is big business but I can say it has been very good to me, especially when locating and buying very old car books. Stuff I never would have otherwise found. Anyway, thanks for the welcome. Bought my car on a whim in 1989 and have not found a reason to part with it yet. I have had all sorts of cars and am not a brand loyalist per se. The quibbling over minutia between brands sometimes overshadows the fact that the cars of the 70's and before have a different feel, have big V8 potential and are comfy. Going home to my wife now, Scott
I won't repeat the basic fact "buyers set the prices on eBay" Oops.. I guess I did. p I'm guilty of paying too much for something when I really want it to. I'd bet most everyone is guilty to some extent. o No: But the reason I posted......I do want to comment on "parting decent cars out" Everyone is sad when a saveable car gets parted..... but when the cars are offered for sale as whole cars.... no-one wants to step up and "save them". Our 71 is a prime example.... As long as we've had it for sale, we've not recieved one real offer for it. BUT I've recieved about 50 PM's that all sound about the same: "If you decide to part it out, please keep me in mind for [insert any particular part here] I've done the math. I can get most of our money back out of it by parting it out. I've been VERY patient with trying to sell it. It's a Skylark Post. Apparently, it's worthless. o No: The eBay auction ends tomorrow morning. If it doesn't sell, and I don't get any REAL offers after it ends, I AM going to part it out. It's going to be a MAJOR pain in the arse, and I don't have time to mess with it. But I'm DONE trying to sell it. It's gotta go. It needs to be out of my driveway, and I want to drop the insurance. It's to a point where I don't even want to work on my other cars because I'm sickened by the fact that I can't sell these ones. Anyways... my point: I don't think I'll ever get mad/sad again when I see a car getting parted out that could/should have been saved. Maybe the owner tried very hard to sell it already, and couldn't.
Well being new to the market for trying to really get what you want for your Buick I find all the good stuff is higher the the bowtie and blue oval crowd. But we are an exclusive club and I will pay a little more for the good stuff. I recently payed 315 dollars for a B4B on ebay. Not including shipping. OUCH!! I bought it because it hadnt been polished, the divider hadnt been notched and it included a few extras including the thermostat housing, choke pull, etc.... I figure I overpayed but I really wanted the B4B perfomance and cool factor too. I did find another at a swap for 325 but it had been modified. CJ
Hey Rick I feel your pain I had a similar exoerience with my GS A skylark post is a cool car but you have to find the buyer that wants to pay for it . I decided to make mine a driver and then a funny thing happened , I have a line on a GS ragtop 71 of course and it is guess what ba-dump tsshhhh hit in front ! I know but I am going to look on friday and if the grille is salvageable I will use the GS hardtop to donate parts to the ragtop . But people get bent when a guy like TKMbuick that claims to be parting a 70 Stage 1 that was wrecked ....... Man it seems to me I have enough body parts , frame ect to fix it and he is just going to junk it when he's done sending parts all arouind the country . That was one Stage 1 I could have maybe afforded but now it is gone .
well I paid $108 for an all original antenna mast with base, and $200 for a NOS hood ornament for my 65 gs....Worth every dime for perfection(well NOS anyways)....Nothing is perfect from a manufacturer...CLOSE THOUGH!!! THats good enough for me...Bottom line is, supply and demand goes hand in hand....I'll stick to my buicks, before I buy something that is just so common to the every day average buyer at a lower price...BUICKS RULE! Later gearheads:beer GOD I LOVE THOSE 1965 Buicks GS's....THANK GOD FOR THE ENGINEER WHO DEVELOPED THE GS!!!!!!!ROLL ON!!!!!!!:laugh:
I, for one don't want to get into the "my car is too nice to drive" complex,I did it with my Skylark 350,although I will still take it to the track or just out for an evening of fun,and when I say fun I mean beatin the balls off of it! If I can't have some street fun with my cars I don't know why I have them. Although now that I have a screemin big block 11 sec. street car,that is abused all year long on the street it is kinda wishy washy takin the 13.5 sec. skylark out. My cars are for my pleasure,I didn't bust my hump making them fast to look at them, I want to enjoy all the performance they have and I do!! I never thought of them as an "investment". I have other sources for that, IRA's,401ks etc. I want to have my fun with my cars now,not preserve them for some A-hole after I'm gone. I feel the NEED for speed and for me my Buicks do it!:Smarty:
Hi Rick I think too that a lot of people become attached to "their cars" and not the exact same car owned by somebody else. I think the 'lark would look great out front of my place but with the Riv, can't afford it. What a lot of people can do is afford to over pay on a single part and yet can't see a good deal in front of them due to the higher price. ie $800 dollar rear end vs $3100 complete car. Also for us Canadians the dollar is another consideration. I think Id pick up your lark if I could find that price in Canada, in Canadian Funds.
In general, I think the prices have gone up due to the simple rules of Economics. However, I do think that prices have gone up due the nature of eBay, not due to sellers being greedy. You have access to more potential buyers on eBay, thus increasing demand, thus driving up prices. EBay is a special case, because it's such an insular marketplace. On eBay, there is this perception of all items having some form of rarity (even lens covers that you can buy elsewhere for $3). I think also people get caught up in bidding against other people -- the satisfaction of 'wanting to win' can also drive up the prices...
Here's a few more to add: $1100 Q-Jet carb for stage 1, $300 stage 1 distributor in Hemmings several months back, $400 GS 67 breather, $1200 rebuilt 8.5" rearend for GS, $400 NOS overflow plastic tank. Well over $5 grand now with the others I mentioned, and not even a car yet!!!!!! :Brow:
o, well it could be worse....How bout 1.5 million for a shelby Cobra....saw that once....I'll stick with the GS......Later gearheads
Yeah. And the N25 was offered at $1K OBO. I made a serious offer that wasn't $1K and Bob accepted it. He's a stand up guy into Buicks for a long time. We need to attract more of these kinds of people to our group rather than to drive them off by hassling them about an OBO price. Much better option than ebay isn't it? It feels like some of us are into a sort of internet bubble mentality right now. Talking about sudden rises in prices like there is no end in sight. But that's not the case. Like the nice post car that won't sell. Chill out ok...
This reminds me of real estate prices. If you already have what you need, then you're ok. Sit back and smile as things go sky high. If you don't have what you need, then you'll likely get pissed about what's happening. I agree completely that this E Bay nonsense is destroying what the hobby used to be. I just wonder what the future of our hobby actually is - or will be ???
Glad you got the bumper at a good price. 8 inches of snow yesterday. Guess I am chilled now. I have what I need too. A better grill would be nice, but it is not pushing me right now. Not pissed about these prices. I do sell on Ebay, so guess I should be happy. Just stating the obvious, that prices have jumped rapidly over a couple of years back.
