I had absentee bids on the Avanti and 4 wheel drive truck, but they both disappeared. The don't show up as items items I'm bidding on, nor items won or lost. JP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net
Lots of $75 parts cars.
Bob40
Left the house at 4am and arrived at the auction a little after 9. It was already getting warm. It was effing hot! When I left for home at
5pm it was around 106, but sort of a "dry" heat.... It was cooler (95) in Mitchell SD where I stopped for some road food but it felt hotter since it was more humid. Obvious there has been little rain in those parts and it was crispy dry. Despite drinking gallons of water, I was feeling a little off by the time I was on the road for home. Almost back to normal this morning. It may be worse heat today as I think the humidity is even higher.Most of the parts cars went to a crusher. They had a min bid of $75 in. Lots of good parts on some of them, but unless there was something special, nobody was willing to bid $85 to keep it from the crusher. There must have been 3-4 GT hawks and 2 finned hawks. Of those, I think 3 of the GTs and 1 finned went to the crusher. Also a '53 hardtop shell. The roof was messed up on that. Lots of '47-'52 stuff and 2R PU stuff is crusher bound too.
Jeff in ND
Bob wrote:
The bottom line price of scrap rules!
JT
JH wrote:
Jeff: Thanks for the report; I was hoping someone would post.
Did the crusher give hobbyists a chance to pull parts off the cars to be crushed? Not necessarily free, of course, but at least a chance to pull parts?
That's what happened here in the little town of Bellville IN about 6-7 yerars ago when an auction like this was held. Crusher was 'most co-operative with hobbyists, and I'm sure he made more money in the process for being a decent guy. He was to come back the following week and start crushing, but anybody that wanted to could buy "picking rights" for a flat fee per car until he got back.
Anyth> Left the house at 4am and arrived at the auction a little after 9. It
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