General Lee for auction on eBay

[Trippy]

Can be yours if you happen to have $2.3+ million lying around:

1969  Dodge : Charger  Charger R/T

[Murgos]

Up to 2.7 now.  It's climbing quick.

If I buy a Dodge Charger R/T and drop 20 grand in a new engine, paint and etc... in it do you think I can get a 3000% return on my investment too?

[SnakeCharmer]

Heh.

Bring it back to original and you could fetch a nice penny for it.

Chargers are probably going to drastically rise in price because of the Bullrun TV series. 

[Nebu]

I have a colleague that deals in classic muscle cars and their prices have been going nuts over the past decade. I really wish I had kept a couple of the cars I rebuilt in high school.  They'd fund my retirement!

[Damn Dirty Ape]

The General Lee brings back fond memories, but not $2.7+ million worth.  Besides, has our society geeked out so far that having such an expensive replica grants any sort of bragging rights?

[Nebu]

The General Lee brings back fond memories, but not $2.7+ million worth.  Besides, has our society geeked out so far that having such an expensive replica grants any sort of bragging rights?

Only if you own the Batmobile or the Oscar Mayer Weiner-mobile.

[Merusk]

What Nebu said.. both times.  Collecting cars costs lots of cash as it is.  But then like any other antique, one with a history is far more valuable than one without.  Geekery doesn't come into the equation - unless you're also a huge fan of DoH rather than just of collecting interesting old cars.

[SnakeCharmer]

I really like the Charger...Lower it down to get rid of the 4x4 stance, put some nice wide tires on it.  Dumps instead of full tail pipes.  All black, with just a BIT of chrome.  Big f00kin' hemi.  Baer brakes.  Update the suspension.  And for damn sure have a manual tranny.  Not a pussy automatic.

Maybe I'll go lookin' for one after I finish the Mustang...

[Nebu]

I watched the classic car auctions a few weeks ago and they were fetching some ridiculous prices for cars you could have purchased for $5k in the 80's.  Shelby Cobras and even 68 Mustang fastbacks were garnering 6 figure price tags.  The whole thing was an obnoxious display of just how many people in this country have ridiculous amounts of disposable income.  

I've owned (all in VERY nice condition) a 64 Impala SS, a 1967 GTO, a 1968 Hurst Olds, a 1969 mustang mach I fastback, and a 1971 mustang convertable.  I bought them all on high school/early college minimum wage pay.  On today's market these things would pay off my house.  I won't even go into the tears I've shed over selling my comic book collection.  

[SnakeCharmer]

I watched the same auction you did.  The Barrett Jackson?  Yeah.  Un-f00kin-believable.

Those cars on todays market would go further than paying off your house, especially the Impala, GTO, and Olds 'vert.

Always had a soft spot for the Olds verts, but at my core, I'm a Mustang guy. 
And strangely, driving a 2004 GTO at the moment.  Go figure.

[Nebu]

I watched the same auction you did.  The Barrett Jackson?  Yeah.  Un-f00kin-believable.

Yeah... made me cry.  Some VERY nice cars though.  Made me nostalgic. 

I edited my post because I had a 1970 Olds convertable and a 1968 Hurst Olds.  I got them confusededed.  The convertable was god awful baby blue... I always wondered if that was a stock color. 

[SnakeCharmer]

Probably was stock.  That was a fairly popular color back then.  Hell, look the old GT40s.  Baby powder blue.

I'm SO frakin' tempted to paint the Fastback I restoring using the mystichrome paint.  Would look purple, blue, light blue, gold, or greenish or any color in between depending on which way you looked at it and the light was hitting it.  It's just crazy freaking batshit insanely expensive.

[Trippy]

Sold for $9.9 million.

/boggle

[Sky]

I have a dream. It's a splendid dream.

I want to buy a Mini Cooper and get a General Lee paint job and horn on it.

[NiX]

That'd be fucking awesome, Sky. I wonder how that thing would handle a jump...

[Etro]

Sold for $9.9 million.

/boggle

im more concerned about the Get low monthly payments link that appears directly under the price tag.

[Nebu]

Sold for $9.9 million.

/boggle

This is all the proof I need that Elvis is still alive.

[SnakeCharmer]

It will be a tax write off for the buyer.

[Furiously]

Or it was some jackass kid who thought it would be funny to bid 9.9 million.

[sinij]

I bought it to drive it in demolition derby.

[Selby]

Or it was some jackass kid who thought it would be funny to bid 9.9 million.

Ding!  As I recall, I don't think the highest bidder has gone through with the payments just yet...

[Trippy]

Or it was some jackass kid who thought it would be funny to bid 9.9 million.

Ding!  As I recall, I don't think the highest bidder has gone through with the payments just yet...

The auction was changed to only allow "pre-qualified bidders" which presumably keeps most of the riff-raff from bidding. The original winning bid has fallen through, however, so they are waiting on the 2nd place bidder which was $500 less.

[Jimbo]

I thought there was like 309 of them made for the show?  Wiki has them stating that 23 are still around in various shapes, would love to have a 69 charger though.

I just bought a 1986 CJ-7 and it is white...no I'm not painting Dixie on the side nor the golden eagle on the top...not unless Kathy is gonna come and drive it for me  :-D

I'm glad I'm keeping my jeep in bashing status so it will mostly be patched up body with a killer attack on the trails (yeah I know Indy is famous for mud, but we actually have a lot of trails to hit too).

[Trippy]

I thought there was like 309 of them made for the show?  Wiki has them stating that 23 are still around in various shapes, would love to have a 69 charger though.

Yes there are even other General Lees for auction on eBay (or were when I last checked). The one we are talking about here didn't even appear in any scenes in the original show. It was in John Schneider's personal car collection.

[Righ]

If you fancy making some good money on classic cars, buy them from Europe. Not only does the US have the edge in inflating the price tag of old restored cars, but the price of gasoline in Europe makes 1970s guzzlers from before the oil crisis quite undesirable. A classic car in the US is anything over 25 years old, and its trivially easy to import anything that old. So that's 1983 for next year, which is the start of the Peter Wheeler TVRs, the first year for the BMW M635CSi, the Bentley Mulsanne Turbo's largest build year, the VW Golf Typ 19, etc. And setting up an import company is a good way to transfer money into valuable foreign funds in a tax-exempt account.