WHEW !!!!!!!!!!

[4banger]

Mecum auction in Kissimmee, Fl on friday sold a 1957 Ford Custom 300 2 dr sedan, for 71,500 mega bucks. It has a 428 motor, 4 speed top loader.  Ground up restoration.

[Lou]

If it had a 428 in it it wasn't a restoration. I've had it happen more than a few times, a client will asks me to look at a car or i'll go look and a car for myself that the seller (usually an astate sale) says is a first class restoration. I get there and the engine is a later model, or the interior is custom made, etc. That 57 is a very nice car, but if I were to put it is restored on my appraisial I could lose my appraisers licence.

[JPotter57]

That is the truest definition of the word Lou.  When you and I hear restoration, we think of restoration to the way Ford built it with as many good original ir NOS parts as possible.  I belive the meaning here and some other ads we see, mean that the car has had the body and undercarriage restored, or made as new.  A 57 Ford did notcome with disk brakes or an FE, particularly one that wasnt available until '68.

[4banger]

My point is ,that the 57 went for 71,500. It was shown on TV. Call it what you want.

[KidKourier]

  What surprised me was $71,500 for the Custom 300( not a retrackable or convertible,or even a Galaxie 500) just a stock looking Black 300 with a stock looking interior,Black steel wheels with poverty hubcaps.Granted it had a 428 F.E. and 4-speed with front disc brakes.Later in the auction George Poteet's ex "57 Custom wagon built by Rad Rides By Troy  called "the Intruder" full on custom built only sold for $55,000! The week before this Barrett-Jackson sold a Blue/Silver Del Rio 2-Dr wagon (Customized) for around $37,000,does this mean other models of '57 Fords are now being acceptedat auctions(besides T-Birds or Retractables)? Are they moving into the '55-'57 Chevy arena/money? KID

[RICH MUISE]

That awesome wagon by troy trepanier got a high bid a 55K to my amazement...I was figuring 125K or higher, but did not meet the reserve and did not sell. Go figure.Makes me wonder if there's something about the car I don't know...like it's a not drivable show car only.

[Ford Blue blood]

Funny thing about auctions, if you have two bidders you have an auction.  If you have two that want the car really bad it will go out of sight in a minute.  Whitness the Amphicar a few years ago at B-J that went for 117K, none have even come close to that number since.  I know the guy that built the 117K car, he had one in this years auction and it was nicer then the first and it only hit 55K.  Go figure!