In a message dated 1/23/06 7:30:48 AM, owner-healeys-digest@autox.team.net
writes:
> I agree with you on this. I find it strange that someone would pay $131k
> for a car that was not originally golden. I thought that the real big
dollars
> went for cars which were complete, rare, and restored as original to a very
> high standard.
>
> If the buyer wanted a golden BJ8 seems to me he/she could buy one and have
> it restored to the same level for considerably less than $141k.
>
> But on the other hand, as someone else pointed out you have the excitement
> of the auction/adrenaline/alcohol/impressing others/etc going on.
>
It puzzles me that no one has done any kind of an in-depth discussion of the
guy in the Ferrari cap. Last year he was the fellow who paid over 3 million
for a one-off Oldsmobile(?) concept car, for some museum, (how can a museum
justify spending 3 mill on one car, and one that will be interesting to only
one
type of car enthusiast?) and this year he was back in the fray, paying
ridiculous prices for cars that I would argue are either not museum material
or if
they are, could be duplicated for the museum for 1/3 their cost (the Golden
Beige
Healey). Is he the pointy end of some sort of money-laundering or tax
write-off scheme?
Who even knows who he is?
Cheers
Gary
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