Anybody else been watching this?

Is it me, or is just about every other car on the block a Chevrolet?

Last night I turned it on at the start and watched for 3-1/2 hours. In all that time I saw exactly one Ford car: a '65 station wagon.

I saw a pink (Dusk Rose) 57 bird not a major resto but extremely nice and original looking, go for 55,000, I recall.

As far as I'm concerned let the mindless masses keep putting small block chevies in anything they can find. It is easy, cheap, unchallenging and uncreative. And keep painting them orange too.

More yblocks for us. sorry that's my rant, just had to get that off my chest.

       A  L  A  N   F  R  A  K  E  S   ~  Tulsa, OK    

I've been watching it too. More money than brains it seems/

$65,000 Ampicar?????????????????? Last year one sold for $125,000.

They were not good cars and poor boats. This wouldn't make them collectable even if they made only 2.



Like you guys I haven't seen enough Fords. Especially Y-Block powered Fords.



If I only had the Cash...... Let's see a 56 sunliner "P" code, with dealer installed powerpack, a 55 Crown with a 292 and a nice 57 "F" code sedan.

Oh, to sleep is to Dream !





Jim

  Jim Rowe Elkhorn, NE

Well Gents, look at the bright side of that story on the Amlicar, The guy who sold it turned around and bought a real F code 'Bird which he is restoring!  Nice guy, sold him some parts for it. So some dummy paid 125 k for a German boat with wheels, or a car with a propeller, and the guy who was smart enough to sell it, builds a Y Block. There was a silver lining in that story.

      Also, as long as they concentrate on the scrubs, they'll leave us alone! I don't watch any more, got tired of the stupidity of the so called "experts."

                                                                Frank/Rebop

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

 

Yeah. The commentators were sure making a lot of questionable statements. One of them saying how he could tell a classic TBird resto was done wrong because the power steering pump was located driver's side front. Uh...OK.

Maybe it's my imagination, but no sooner does an untricked Ford hit the block when they start pushing it off again. There was this one '55 Crown Vic, very nice car. The auctioneer cut it short and the car went for low 40s money, even though bidding obviously wasn't done. If I was the seller, I'd've been real ticked off.

But did you guys see what brought the most $$$????  It was no bowtie, but was Carroll Shelby's Super Snake Cobra!

Jim (site owner)
'56 Club Sedan - Ted Eaton built 429 hp '292/318, '54 Sunliner - stock '302

I saw it, and it was great to see the bowties take a back seat where they belong.The Shelby Mustang didn't do to bad either.

-Gary Burnette-

I too have been watching the Barrett-Jackson show, but I do it right. I record everything on a DVR the day before so I can zip through the scrubvette/mopar auctions and slow-mo/replay the Fords.



For the last few years the so called "expert" commentators have all acted as if the Kelsey-Hayes wire wheels were an original option on 50s T-birds. Several times I have sent them emails explaining that, due to this misconception, EVERY car brought to the auction will soon have them, since no one wants his car to look underdressed and sell for less. They have repeatedly ignored me, and now I am convinced that the Roadster Wheel company that makes the copies must send everybody there free product, the way GM initially promoted the 265 scrub V-8.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

After watching a wee bit of this B-J thing on several evenings - I've come to the conclusion that the number of viewers is probably going to drop. Out of boredom.

Used to be they had all sorts of interesting cars - now its just a steady stream of Camaros, Mustangs, Chevelles and Hemi Cuda's. What happened to the older cars? And the racing cars? too few in the current format if you ask me (and no one did actually).....

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

Gentlemen, The positive way to look at this is that the "scrubs" are disposable and no one really cares if they sell them. Ford lovers, love their cars and tend to hang on to them as opposed to selling them for a quick buck. I hung onto my Ford powered Model A as long as I could, but family commitments ment I had to sell it. It was like I was selling my own child! I litterly cried my eyes out as I drove away. When I sold my 69 chev to build the "A" ( yes I did own a scrub) I was happy as heck counting the cash and dreaming of what I could buy for the "Old 28"! Let them sell their cookie cutter crap............. I'm keeping "Old Vicky".

Rob

I love the smell of burning rubber in the morning!