It's not for the car, it's for the history man!
Really, it's like the son said in one of the interviews - "it's not like it's Al Capone's car or anything". In a month this whole thing will be forgotten and no one will think anything about the car more than the parts it is worth. Either people don't realize that, or more likely since this auction was covered all over the news, probably even nationally, they just get excited and start bidding like crazy to be part of it.
I really do hope it works out for the owners though. Either with a good high bid (when opportunity knocks, answer), or like he mentioned in a post, if it falls through at least it might convince the insurance company to pay up more.
On a side note, the high bidder has been robinandmanyard for a couple days. This is a popular radio talk show in Seattle. I don't listen to it so I don't know if anything's up, but I was wondering if they are bidding on this as part of a bit, maybe to help the owners out (maybe they even interviewed them on the show), and then they'll do some crazy radio stunt with the car like blow it up, let people hit it with hammers for charity, etc. Or it could be just someone local who used their name. Either way, the ebay identity is brand new, like it was created specifically to bid on this auction.
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I need to get my wrecked car on the news so I can do the same thing!
This seems a lot like the Barrett Jackson Auctin type of thing w/ the high pressure guy standing next to you telling you how "everyone will know that you're the guy who bought that car for ridiculous amounts of money".
Now you can own this stolen and abused car for hundreds ABOVE blue book!
I'm happy for the owner but I have trouble understanding why someone would want this damaged car for more than it's worth. Even the salvage title will cost them money when they register it. |