I'm not sure what to say but ....wow. The power sunroof has be worth 50K right 
This care was on Jay Leno, did Emory have more than one there or quite a few?
There's a drive video where the sex show starts at 2:55
https://bringatrailer.com/list...rsche-emory-special/
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@WNGD wow!...what an amazing car!!!...i have seen a few emory cars...they are REAL DEAL rolling jewelry
....i recently met a guy that wants my car BAD!....all i have to do is make a phone call for $65K.....which i believe is fair...but not today!! ......but i digress.....apples and oranges absolutely for my JPS vs
an EMORY...but compare this for that car and decide for yourself...with a LOT of spare $ change $... just sayin'
@jncspyder- that's only fair market value; if he really wants it, I'd say it's worth AT LEAST $100,000! 
I love the green interior , goes so good on that black car , I do wonder why the seat pads look so dirty ,
We can thank Chuck Beck for the motor idea , I remember when he was doing that at his shop in Upland , building it for his personal 550 that he did some racing with….
Will be be interesting to see where the auction goes ……
@imperial posted:I love the green interior , goes so good on that black car , I do wonder why the seat pads look so dirty ,
We can thank Chuck Beck for the motor idea , I remember when he was doing that at his shop in Upland , building it for his personal 550 that he did some racing with….
Will be be interesting to see where the auction goes ……
The seats look the way they do probably because they're corduroy and corduroy always looks like it's dirty. Lol
Did not make reserve at $699k ……… wonder what reserve is ?
@imperial posted:Did not make reserve at $699k ……… wonder what reserve is ?
World gone mad.
Some people get the privilege of a super high reserve. BAT would never let a regular schmoe do that.
Would be funny if the reserve was 700K .....
That was one beautiful car but no way worth 600K more than the nicest examples on here imo. World gone mad indeed.
A half a mil of that is simply the Emory name.
If it was $700k reserve or anywhere close BAT would make it happen , that’s how they make money , selling cars !
it’s an auction a seller loves , 2 rich guys pushing up the bids 100k at the end , too bad his reserve was so high ,
I still think an Emory 356 is a lot cooler car than a Singer 911 ,
I can not afford it , but I would love to be able to drive it for a weekend 
We have no idea as to the multitude of dollars and man hours that go into an Emory resurrection, but one can only imagine, the name certainly has a huge prominence.
@Alan Merklin posted:We have no idea as to the multitude of dollars and man hours that go into an Emory resurrection, but one can only imagine, the name certainly has a huge prominence.
I love me an Emory outlaw as much as the next ape, but I haven't completely lost my mind. Seven hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. I'm a 100% fan of letting the market set the value of a thing, but this is approaching tulip-bulb bubble point. This is an order of magnitude wilder than a $80k Vintage Motorcar replica.
Let's say Rod bills $150/hr for his efforts. Let's further suppose the car he started out with was $75K. Let's speculate he used $100k worth of parts (he didn't, unless the paint has crushed diamonds in it).
That means he could budget 3500 hours in the build. It's nice, but there are not 3500 hrs in this build. For those of you on salary, businesses generally figure 1600- 2000 hrs of productivity per man per year. If he gets $200/hr, that's still 2625 hrs (a year and 13 weeks at 40 hrs/week).
If his guys are making $150k/year, it pays for 4 of them for a full year, with $100K left over to keep the lights on.
At least half of the ask is in the name.
@Stan Galat posted:.
Let's say Rod bills $150/hr for his efforts. Let's further suppose the car he started out with was $75K. Let's speculate he used $100k worth of parts (he didn't, unless the paint has crushed diamonds in it).
I agree. But how much is a Polo motor. I’ve seen prices all over the place.
The sad fact of late stage capitalism is that there are hundreds of people to whom a million dollars is walking around money. $750K is a small price to pay for them to own bragging rights to an Emory in their garage.
David - To be clear, I don't think anybody needs to "fix" anything (may heaven save us), but I'm endeavoring to keep the car site centered on cars.
Rich guys being rich guys is just how it is, and how it has ever been. They're typically another kind of cat, and it's fun to poke holes in the pomposity - but I'm generally glad for them. They hire me to fix stuff, and have kept me in the style in which I've become accustomed.
It's just that I don't feel especially ancient, and I can easily remember when a legit running and not-all-that-bad speedster could be had for less than $50K. I've not been interested in these cars for more than 25 years. Around that time, a half-decent coupe was really short money (like <$10k short), because nobody wanted them - and a Gary Emory outlaw project might add $100K to the cost of whatever you started with.
Yeah, that was split-foyer house price in Flyover, USA, but it was understandable. This is just one more cool thing that's moved from being just out of reach into something I don't even think about anymore. It's not a condemnation of capitalism, it's just a statement regarding why there are no aging hippies bombing around in rusted out 356s anymore. There used to be, and now there's not.
@dlearl476 posted:I agree. But how much is a Polo motor. I’ve seen prices all over the place.
It's been 15 years since I priced one out (yeah, I considered one), but they could be had for $40K back then - so more now, I assume. Keep in mind that Rod's not buying cases from Dean, he's having his own made.
I'm not buying a 360 Ferrari either, so there's that.
I do believe everyone has a budget but in this day of accessible information, ie: too much information allows every person/kid to dream of the bizzilionaire vehicle. If it happens to be, well good for him/her but at some point everyone has a value system and you can have whatever you want, well whatever you can afford. Where we are at, value becomes more important, and maybe how much effort it is to keep up all the toys you have comes into play ...but hey what do I know in the end a choice is choice. I love Emory stuff but I cannot see liking it that much to spend that much on it and still have 1959 technology It still has a beam suspension.
......and to thing when I had my Speedy shop in PA. I hesitated to charge $55 hr.
With that said, the Emory Outlaw (somewhat) clone - replica I did is a deal and a half ;~)
There's rich, and then there's rich. There are about 600 families in the Musk/Bezos/Gates wealth area. To illustrate, @ $750,000 each, Elon could buy about 19,000 Emory outlaws with only the money he's LOST on Twitter. The expenditure wouldn't effect his standard of living or diminish his power one iota. In fact it clearly hasn't.
That's f*&%ing insane.
OTOH, Bill Gates lost $75B because he couldn’t keep his pants zipped. Jeff Bezos got off comparatively lightly with his inability to do the same ($38B).
That’s a lot of anything.
I'm just disappointed that my $699K bid didn't carry the day. At least the seller could have messaged me to see if we could have worked something out... Like I could have mowed his lawn for the next 10,000 years or something.
I hear it did sell ,
BAT has a good reason to squeeze both parties to make a deal....
@imperial posted:I hear it did sell ,
BAT has a good reason to squeeze both parties to make a deal....
Yeah, because if they make a deal on the side, BaT loses their commission. 
I really like that color combo. A friend of Jack, the fellow that owned/restored Dean Jeffries’ Carrera, just restored an A coupe that he’s had for a few decades to the original black/green. It was phenomenal.
When I was in college, I went to a holiday party at a house in The Avenues, a section of SLC that was the rich neighborhood in the 40-50’s. They had a bathroom that was black and forest green tile below an art deco foil wallpaper. It’s was amazing. I’ve loved it ever since.
