Ok, I give. This one is too far gone.

[Monk]

Did you read this reply on the blog?

Martin,
You are so correct about the Bugatti which is half eaten away from sitting at the bottom of a lake for 40 + years.
That car sold for around $375,000 I beleive, and had many bidders.

A damn car sitting on the bottom of a lake, for 40 yrs, was fished out.......I assume restored
then sold for $375 K.

[Bob Holmes]

Nope, unrestored to this day. Sits in a museum in SoCal.

I don't get it either.

[daved931]

Thumpin I totally get what you're saying, but consider this - the time you've put into the GTO is similar to the time it would take to rebuild that car - so here's the calculations

100,000 will buy you a show car, 200k will buy and rebuild that car - then you've made 150k as the pricing on that car is routinely in the 350k range. Even at the low end sale of 250k - 50k, isn't bad money. If you do the work yourself, you'll be "paid" the 100k restoration cost and 50k profit. All for a year's work.

btw - while that wadded up car looks bad, it's the James Bond Aston Martin.... quite collectable, and very desirable.

If you've got the time and money to invest in it upfront, it would probably pay off.


FWIW, Bond used a DB5.

[DanStokes]

It took me YEARS to realize that I can't save 'em all. Now that I'm old, I don't seem to save ANY of 'em.

Dan

[Thumpin455]

Sure a decent one is worth something, and yes I have lots of hours in a rusty old Pontiac that would never be worth my time if I had to be paid for it. The difference is I am not building the GTO to make money, I am doing it for very different reasons so time spent on it has no real value, its more important to get it done so it can be driven again.

To spend $90k just to buy a car like that, and then try to find all the parts for it would be an exercise in futility. They werent mass produced like GTOs and Chevelles were, there arent millions of them like there are Mustangs. Sure it could be worth a quarter mil, but it sure as hell isnt like that. Its like building a BOSS 429 from a cowl section and an A pillar.

[Brian Lohnes]

I agree that it seems insane, but damn I hope someone has the balls to do it.

The Bugatti from the bottom of the lake is awesome just on the story itself (the customs guys pushed it into the lake because the paperwork was wrong or whatever when it was being imported).

[SuperBuickGuy]

Sure a decent one is worth something, and yes I have lots of hours in a rusty old Pontiac that would never be worth my time if I had to be paid for it. The difference is I am not building the GTO to make money, I am doing it for very different reasons so time spent on it has no real value, its more important to get it done so it can be driven again.

To spend $90k just to buy a car like that, and then try to find all the parts for it would be an exercise in futility. They werent mass produced like GTOs and Chevelles were, there arent millions of them like there are Mustangs. Sure it could be worth a quarter mil, but it sure as hell isnt like that. Its like building a BOSS 429 from a cowl section and an A pillar.

I apologize if what I said to you came across as critical of your amazing work on the GTO.

To me that car (the DB4) would be like a puzzle that needs put back together.... a very rare puzzle.

[yellomalibu]

I like some of the comments:

"Nice stance. Keep this baby unrestored and just enjoy driving her."