Nick's Thoughts
I have periodically posted my opinions and content on my site but have done a lousy job of being consistant with my blog. Well, that is going to change. I am going to post more info on a more regular basis and I hope that you will read some. It won't be just my opinions. I am going to scour the internet for interesting and educational news about the collector car industry. I'm sure I will also throw in a few useless links that will humor you along the way.
Let's start off by telling you about a collector car auction down in Florida last saturday that brought HUGE money. A collector from Georgia put 55 of his cars up for auction on a no reserve basisi. If you don't know what that means, if one of his six figure cars goes across the block and it only brings $10,000 he has to sell it. All of these cars are the best of the best when it came to the quality and rarity of these vehicles. The car that brought the most money was a 1969 GTO "Judge" Convertible. Some guy paid a whopping $620,000 for this rare vehicle.
Your probably saying, "who can afford that in this economy". Well obviously that guy but the majority of us can't afford to throw down that kind of jack for a car. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote a good article about it if you want to know more.
If you are in this profession then you already that being a pack rat is just part of doing business. I have so many car parts accumilated over the years that it seem that I could build an entire car from the ground up. Well this guy did and it's a blown Hemi at that.
I like to read Jay Lenos's Garage periodically and I have been keeping up on a concept car called the "Rossi SixtySix" . It's essentially a 66 Corvette customized on a C-6 Vette chassis. It's a cool idea but I'm not in love with the design. Follow the link and tell me what you think.
The shop at Blad Boys has been really busy trying to restore and build our customers rides. Since we have been open we have been fortunate to work on fairly clean and mostly rust free cars. Well, that's about to change. I have a gentelmans 65 Mustang Fastback in the shop that is a complete basket case. It's so rotted out that that Fred Flintstone could drive this car with his feet. Essentially the only things that will NOT be replaced is the top, parts of the doors and part of the pillars around the rear glass. Pics. The customer wants to do a portion of the work himself but he didn't want to take on replacing the entire underneath of the car and everything from the firewall on forward. When we start into the job I will keep you posted.
That's it for today. Hopefully this will help me get some good feedback about my writing and keep you interested in coming back.