I was standing looking at the Golden Beige BJ8 20 minutes before it
went on the block and the guy in the Ferrari cap came up and huddled
and had a quiet conversation with the builder. Not really looking at
the car but had a very cute babe on his arm. :-)
No idea as to what was said.
Randy Hicks
'56 100M
'65 BJ8
'53 MGTD
Healey100M@gmail.com
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Editorgary@aol.com wrote:
> 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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