Hi Ed, for some reason I thouht those headers that sold on ebay were
chrome, I'll have to go back and look at link. I think there are several things
here also worth mentioning, years ago, the paint and coatings everyone used is
probably not as good as the stuff being made to today as technology has come a
long way with heat coatings, ect.
On the other hand, there are a lot of metal products I would rather have
from the 1970s.....used, as opposed to the cheap sh*t Vietnamese and Chinese
metal that have flooded the market in recent years. A example here would be cat
converters. I had several NOS ones and saved them, to use on my own cars that
required them. When taking them to the muffler shop to install, each muffler
shop told me 'man, they don't make them like that anymore' just being good,
solidly built American piece as compared to the McChinese ones they sold and
would have used on my car, which would have been good for maybe 3-5 years max
before failing.
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Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 1:13
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Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] I just
don't understand the stupid people on ebay
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Eddie
I know that the spirit of the auction will also drive up a
price. I know that I have seen it many times when I used to sell a
lot on ebay. As for the silver paint, I put a set of these headers
on my 72 304 Gremlin back in 1973, I beleive that I paid around $125.00
for them, which back than I was only making around $3.00 an hrs, preping
new AMC. But the header started to rust a few weeks after i
installed them, so I removed them and cleaned them with a wirewheel and
painted them with Hi Temp paint, using that they stayed nice for about
year, Aftyer that I said the hell with it, because it was a go car, not
a show car. The point is is that the paint from that time was that
great.
Ed
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Eddie Stakes
<eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From:
Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:
[BaadAssGremlins] I just don't understand the stupid people on
ebay
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, February
22, 2010, 11:35 AM
There are whole range of factors at work here. And not confined
to ebay only, hell, you can find them at swap meets, craigslist, even
live auctions
There are people out there who don't do research on items. A good
case would be that 69 BBG AMX that appeared on my AMC Classifieds last
year for $10K/obo in Arlington, TX. Suddenly it was in Wylie, TX and
on ebay for $18K/obo. So dragging it across a few counties cost $8K!
It still didn't sell and last I saw it was in ebay hell, that is,
those cars that take up residency on ebay week after week, price
slowly dropping week after week, everyone tired of seeing them while
owner, or seller, tries to make $$$.
Not against capitalism at all, but possibly the buyer of the
headers wanted that chrome paint, as opposed to the black hi temp
paint on the Jegs site?
How about that used Nintendo NES that sold for $13,105 on ebay?
That one game there, there are only 10 copies in world known to exist.
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