Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Fw: nice 74 amc hornet spoortabout in auction no r

Eddie; The old car industry is about dead. The old car hobby is slowly being reborn. There are still a lot of people who remember the high falsely inflated prices. This makes it hard selling cars in this new hobby. There are still a few people who will pay near those old prices. There are some people out there who think parts are still gold. They will change soon as the old car hobby is reborn. It is different, everthing is changing. There is a parts glut because fewer cars to restore or maintain. Many more reasons the biggest is simple, the generations who started the hobby, turned it into an industry are now either broke [ economy], on the front porch of a nursing home, or taking a dirt nap. Our numbers are quickly being thined out. Lots of cars and parts for sale no buyers at the old prices. It's a new day new prices etc. Dale

From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: baadassGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:51 PM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Fw: nice 74 amc hornet spoortabout in auction no reserve sold

The Hornet sold for drum roll please....$1600. Owner's words:

"Since I've never sold a car in a car auction before, I asked the ladies in
their office for their advice on whether to have a reserve on my car. They
suggested "no reserve". I was told more people would bid on it, so that's
what I went with.

Out of the 175 cars sold that day (Sunday) only 5 cars had no reserve on
them. That made me pretty nervous. It turns out for good reason. One of
the owner's of the car auction, Jason McCormack told me there were "likes"
on my car's Facebook picture and he even got some calls on my car. That
sounds like some good news, so I began to feel better. The bad news is the
car sold for the high bid of $1600.00.

I was pretty upset. Jason, who was next to me was very surprised and told
me he really thought it would go for more. I told the new owner he got a
great deal. I had owned my Sportabout for 15 years, fixing all the little
things along the way. It certainly wasn't anything close to perfect, but it
was pretty nice. I got a lot of nice comments before the auction.

That was that. So now it's time to move on. "

Eddie Stakes
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825 days
mailto:eddiestakes%40planethoustonamx.com
http://www.planethoustonamx.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eddie Stakes
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:40 PM
Subject: nice 74 amc hornet spoortabout in auction no reserve

My beautiful all original 1973 AMC Hornet Sportabout station wagon will be
sold at a no reserve auction this Sunday, Feb 24th at McCormick's classic
car auction in Palm Springs, CA. Check my car out here:
http://www.classic-carauction.com/auction_details.cfm?pagesubid=37&auctionid=5796
Tom Hamilton mailto:tommgb2001%40yahoo.com 818-551-1872
not mine above but looks like a clean car.
Eddie Stakes
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825 days
mailto:eddiestakes%40planethoustonamx.com
www.planethoustonamx.com

Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Fw: nice 74 amc hornet spoortabout in auction no reserve sold