Yep, thats them. We remember the same period. Like you, I didnt meet
many of the actual buyers, just these pretenders, but they sure were
driving up the prices. That was actually a time when we were
intentionally not publicizing our events outside the clubs, to avoid
some of this exposure. A far cry from today.
davidwjones wrote:
>John,
>During the period you describe, I didn't so much run into wealthy neophytes
>trying to buy cars for themselves, as much as constantly running into
>"dealers" who posed as private buyers, who were primarily buying the cars for
>resale in Europe and Japan. They were practically a plague on the landscape.
>The names and characteristics of these types, who generally were offering more
>than US market value, were circulated furiously at shows, throughout the
>clubs, and over the fledgling web lists. There was a very real distain among
>owners for these frauds who were "exporting "our" LBCs".
>At the time, their ads, offering to buy the cars "at top dollar" were every
>where in publications like Hemmings etc.
>David W. Jones
>'62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
>Cumberland, RI USA
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