696pack
Well-Known Member
Gawd, I am sick of some of these idiots.
I think that MANY of the posts on their Ebay, Craiglist, Racinng Junk, WIW forum does the hobby an injustice.
I of course like most people follow the prices of the cars that I own. I read with interest the comments of these Moparts posters giving their comments an opinions on the values of cars they find posted elsewhere on the Net.
Judging by the posters cars and comments on their personal life it SOUNDS like MOST of them could not begin to afford to buy the cars they are commenting on, have never owned one, and my bet is they have never even really scrutinized one in person. They are what I call "armchair Internet collector car experts."
The problem is that I am afraid that unknowing potential buyers will go to the site (as it IS the largest most active Mopar site on the Net) and take as gosspil what these idiots spew. It is really an injustice to these potential buyers as they will be set up for heartbreak when they expect or TRY to buy cars for the kind of money they find on the Moparts site as supposed "good info."
I just looked at an active post about a 67 Charger. One of the posts tells the readership that even a 67 Hemi Charger is only worth in the $40K range. Of course the poster doesn't list any support info such as a sale recent or otherwise. Sooo, I pull out my current June 2010 edition of Collector Car Market Review which is a publication that tracks current auctions and reporting dealer sales for the old car market. It then puts these cars in their pricing guide listing these cars values on a 1-5 scale. I had not looked at 66-67 Hemi Charger prices for some time and was surprised to see that these cars have now creeped past the 66-67 Coronet Hemi cars. The history has always been that the 66-67 Hemi Chargers were always the lowest priced Hemi cars. Well, the price range on the 66-67 Hemi/auto cars go from $85K to $32.5 the lower price is one catagory above a parts car. Remember, this is for an auto trans car and the guide calls for a 5% add fro a 4 speed. Now some will argue that those are auction prices and not "real world" pricing. I disagree and believe that today there are far more of these old cars sold at auction and by dealers than there are through private party sales. In addition to this there is no way to track private party sales, so the only thing banks, insurance companies, or buyers can rely on are these kinds of price guides.
Somehow these idiots on Moparts seem to think they have some kind of "knowledge" of the market that others that actively search out and make a business of this information report.
What am I thinking??? I guess I should just accept what these mental giants post with their VAST knowlege base and follow along with the rest of the Moparts sheep.:rolling::rolling::rolling::rolling:
I think that MANY of the posts on their Ebay, Craiglist, Racinng Junk, WIW forum does the hobby an injustice.
I of course like most people follow the prices of the cars that I own. I read with interest the comments of these Moparts posters giving their comments an opinions on the values of cars they find posted elsewhere on the Net.
Judging by the posters cars and comments on their personal life it SOUNDS like MOST of them could not begin to afford to buy the cars they are commenting on, have never owned one, and my bet is they have never even really scrutinized one in person. They are what I call "armchair Internet collector car experts."
The problem is that I am afraid that unknowing potential buyers will go to the site (as it IS the largest most active Mopar site on the Net) and take as gosspil what these idiots spew. It is really an injustice to these potential buyers as they will be set up for heartbreak when they expect or TRY to buy cars for the kind of money they find on the Moparts site as supposed "good info."
I just looked at an active post about a 67 Charger. One of the posts tells the readership that even a 67 Hemi Charger is only worth in the $40K range. Of course the poster doesn't list any support info such as a sale recent or otherwise. Sooo, I pull out my current June 2010 edition of Collector Car Market Review which is a publication that tracks current auctions and reporting dealer sales for the old car market. It then puts these cars in their pricing guide listing these cars values on a 1-5 scale. I had not looked at 66-67 Hemi Charger prices for some time and was surprised to see that these cars have now creeped past the 66-67 Coronet Hemi cars. The history has always been that the 66-67 Hemi Chargers were always the lowest priced Hemi cars. Well, the price range on the 66-67 Hemi/auto cars go from $85K to $32.5 the lower price is one catagory above a parts car. Remember, this is for an auto trans car and the guide calls for a 5% add fro a 4 speed. Now some will argue that those are auction prices and not "real world" pricing. I disagree and believe that today there are far more of these old cars sold at auction and by dealers than there are through private party sales. In addition to this there is no way to track private party sales, so the only thing banks, insurance companies, or buyers can rely on are these kinds of price guides.
Somehow these idiots on Moparts seem to think they have some kind of "knowledge" of the market that others that actively search out and make a business of this information report.
What am I thinking??? I guess I should just accept what these mental giants post with their VAST knowlege base and follow along with the rest of the Moparts sheep.:rolling::rolling::rolling::rolling:
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