The time has come where I have to depart with my Speedster. It's been a fun journey but alas no more garage space. Looking for a good home.
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Good luck!
@Matt Briney If that is the original Vintage Speedster engine you might be able to tell what size engine is in it if you hold a mirror to the back of the fan shroud and shine a light in there. Kirk, or the engine builder, usually wrote the engine size on the back of the fan shroud.
Who the h@ll bid $100,000?
Off to a great start!
Seriously, someone's fat finger added a zero. It happens; they'll correct it.
@Bob: IM S6 posted:Who the h@ll bid $100,000?
"Jens2960"
Somebody is confused. The problem here is that there is a 99.99999% chance the bid will be withdrawn. I really hope this won't ruin the chance of robust bidding as this goes on.
The guy is from Denmark and either thought it was a real Speedster or his kid was bidding for him. If you look at his previous action his kid won a Mercedes for him bidding while the guy was asleep. $100k sets a new benchmark....
Jens2960 joined BAT last month and has already bought five cars - two Mercedes and three Porsches - for about $450k. I’d really like to know the story here - I bet it is interesting.
That high bid was cancelled by BaT.
Friends don't let friends bid while drunk. I have a friend that won the bid on a KTM motorcycle this way. He woke up the next morning a winner. Then the engine had a problem and Fleabay had the motor rebuilt for free. He has the worst and best luck ever.
@Carlos G posted:That high bid was cancelled by BaT.
Friends don't let friends bid while drunk. I have a friend that won the bid on a KTM motorcycle this way. He woke up the next morning a winner. Then the engine had a problem and Fleabay had the motor rebuilt for free. He has the worst and best luck ever.
That's how I bought my first speedster.
It was the last several hours of the auction, and the seller had a reserve which was not yet met. I was "probing" a competing bidder's commitment, and put in a bid on the outer edge of what I thought I'd be willing to give. He outbid me, which didn't matter because we still hadn't made reserve.
I went to our friends' house for dinner. When we got home (pre smartphone days), I checked my email-- I had won the auction!
While we were eating, the seller had lowered his reserve and the high-bidder had retracted his bid, leaving me as the high-bidder with the reserve met.
Ha ha, good one, Stan. I bought my Meyers Manx on eBay under similar circumstances, although unlike Carlos' friend I can't blame alcohol for my "success." I bid $3500, "knowing" that they generally go for twice that. I woke up to a similar email.
Surprise, surprise.
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It's often a fake bid by the owner's friends trying to drive the price up and then they remove their bid at the end leaving you higher then you would have had to bid. Same thing for lowering reserves.
Nice looking car, Matt. Good luck with the sale. Just 1 thing- it needs to be a little lower, though...
GLWTS @Matt Briney. I think I heard you all the way out here on the West Coast shouting for joy when that $100,000 bid was placed.
You never know with BaT. Someone purchased a 1991 Ford bronco for $90,000 and a 2000 Honda Civic for $50,000. It just takes two bidders, or an eccentric that really wants the most expensive _____________ .