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Posted: January 18 2008 11:31 AM
Crazyhorse Rod Shop [ View ] [ Email ] [ Website ]
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Bluff Dale Texas 76433

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after going thru what i've taped things dont look good for streetrods. only a couple really did much. most failed to even cover the build. 55 chevy truck and a 56 ford pu did way better. one thing for sure is the love affair for cookie cutter deuces is over. guess i called it right when i started rounding up pick'em ups. :) i have 2 now and a line on 2 more.
 
 
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Posted by DaveHughes  -  01/18/2008 08:28 PM
things dont look good for anything people dont HAVE to have in these parts. High dollar cars- boats -bikes- rvs- etc.. nothing is moving around here. Money seems to be tight for any of the fun things. BJ has never been the place to buy or sell a rod imo. Too many purists there .
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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/18/2008 11:54 AM
if the ones they put across that stage dont bring the money then the market is flat. it is just simply a buyers market on streetrods. they are a dime a dozen as pop use to say. the market is flooded with 20 year old junk thats been dolled up . i wont put my money in another one to sell. i think streetrods will go the way of the restored model A's and the restored market in general.
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by whipsold39  -  01/18/2008 11:55 AM
Yes I also think the trucks will be more accepted and wanted. You can do a lot of neat options on a truck. I believe they will be a hot item for the next few years. To me they seem to be a little cheaper and easier to build. I am currently working on a 48 ford truck.
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Posted by 29robert  -  01/18/2008 12:08 PM
I've been watchin B-J as well. It's interesting to see how the focus has changed over the years. Started out years ago with restored classics, then moved to exotic european sports cars, then a few years ago it was hot rods, and now its American muscle cars. Kinda disappointed that every time it seems that a hot rod is about come on the block, they go to commercial break. Planned? And what was with all that Monster Garage crap? Still, its entertaining.
29robert [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] La Verne, California Charter Member since November 2004
 
Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/18/2008 12:19 PM
i dont know about cheaper whip. they actually cost more to do. there's way more paint and body time in them plus quite a bit more materials. interior is about the same as a coupe. everything else is the same.
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by EZRodder  -  01/18/2008 12:27 PM
This event has become a purists's Chevelle & Shelby auction. Most everything else is going dirt cheap, and if the thing is modified or customized, there's very little interest. I wish I was there because a few of the cars I love are selling well within my price range. For sure, some of those builders, who put up brand new cars, didn't even realize their parts cost - especially after you figure the auction fees!
EZRodder [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Bernville, Pennsylvannia
 
Posted by Tweety37  -  01/18/2008 12:24 PM
A friend told me last night that they said on the air that the number of cars BJ is selling this year is down over 20%, and the number of viewers is way down as well. Seems that every time I switched over to BJ they were selling some "wood burner" or other piece of junk.
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Posted by EZRodder  -  01/18/2008 12:41 PM
There are fewer cars this year, but that is because BJ put a limit on the number. They don't accept near the number of cars that apply. The way things are going this year, the ones that were rejected are probably feeling lucky.
EZRodder [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Bernville, Pennsylvannia
 
Posted by dixie  -  01/18/2008 12:42 PM
Well Shine i'm glad the cookie cutter is fast closing,but thats just means i want b getting rid of mine . but i don't want to get did of it any way love my little hiboy no matter what the big TREND is,thanks alot on the chevelle.
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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/18/2008 12:44 PM
the bj auction does not put junk across the stage. only high interest cars. from what i see it is ahead of last year so far. the restomod camaros are bring 40+. keep in mind that the high end cars start today and sat will be the gun fight.
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/18/2008 12:48 PM
i here ya dixie. i'd love to have a 5 window but my big a$$ wont fit in one anymore it's just that everybody jumped into them. even some of the cheap kit car mfg are selling them. just been done to death i guess.
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by whipsold39  -  01/18/2008 12:51 PM
Maybe not cheaper shine but for me in the small garage I have to work in it seems easier because I can sit the box outsid and the front clip in the shed and all I have is the cab and frame it is easier to work on. I would like to have the big garage and hoist but fortunate for what I have.
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Posted by EZRodder  -  01/18/2008 12:52 PM
By the way - The TV coverage is "Piss Poor". Both the commentary and camera coverage are terrible.
EZRodder [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Bernville, Pennsylvannia
 
Posted by JoeP  -  01/18/2008 02:08 PM
I don't normally watch BJ found it to be interesting tv. I through the bidding was in line, most cars sold between 30 and 40,000, of course there is always the exception over the top bid. Like I said never watched or been to one of these auctions, if I were a bidder don't know if I could take the BJ crew( don't know their real title) in my face pushing me to bid higher, it's like a circus. Agree with Dixie don't care how many 32 hi boys there are , there is nothing like a roadster, except in the rain than there is nothing like a sedan.
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Posted by DaveHughes  -  01/18/2008 02:13 PM
yea joe but you got BOTH you lucky dog.lol...
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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/18/2008 02:26 PM
no way to hold an auction of that size without the bidding assistants. no way could one man keep up with all of them. people who go to these auctions know what to expect. tonite and tomorrow is when the money will start to flow. these aren't hotrodders out buying a car. they're collectors . regular guys like us would get eaten alive by those shark's .
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by awsum34  -  01/18/2008 03:02 PM
Most of these cars will not see the streets and be enjoyed like we have.
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Posted by jgregory21  -  01/18/2008 04:15 PM
Just saw a "54 Packard Conv. sell for $154000.00; Just think I had a '54 Packard my Senior year in High School, but wasn't conv. but I rodded it! It only had 18000 miles on it, older people had it, and never drove much. My Dad found it for me, I beat that car to death. You never know, but prefer Street Rods today.
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Posted by EZRodder  -  01/18/2008 04:53 PM
You are right on, Shine. The "Sharks" are collecting. We like to drive our cars.
EZRodder [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Bernville, Pennsylvannia
 
Posted by 37tin  -  01/18/2008 05:14 PM
Car collectors??? buy at one auction sell at the next?. gotta say B-J does a good job getting the big money people there. and its entertaining for sure.
37tin [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] langley, Canada
 
Posted by DavyJ  -  01/18/2008 06:18 PM
Like most tv, it is entertainment. At least it breaks up the winter. it is also nice to see that there is money out there. Although most of us will never play in that arena, when we go to a car show we are all the same.
Still driving the wife's car, cause I am slow. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Niagara Falls, Canada Charter Member since February 2005
 
Posted by 37tin  -  01/18/2008 06:28 PM
Right DavyJ ..all the same, amen!
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Posted by zinski3  -  01/18/2008 07:09 PM
Watched the Russo Steele auction when they ran Reggie Jackson's cars through. Thought he was gonna cry. The announcers were saying the car should go for twice as much as they went for. The LS6 Chevelle's were $150,000 cars that only went for $80,000. My heart goes out to these people!
zinski3 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Edwards, Missouri Charter Member since December 2000
 
Posted by dixie  -  01/18/2008 10:57 PM
Zinski3 don't feel for these people,made there bed so they got to lie in it.
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Posted by zinski3  -  01/19/2008 08:48 AM
Dixie, That was my attempt at sarcasm. I really do not feel for these people. If you get into collecting for the money end of it, that is the chance you take. When the market goes soft..............so be it. As long as everyone holds back their money, there will be some low priced deals out there. Just wish I had money to jump on some of them. My problem is I would be buying because I wanted them, not trying to turn a profit.
zinski3 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Edwards, Missouri Charter Member since December 2000
 
Posted by dixie  -  01/19/2008 09:59 AM
opps sorry
jim grace [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dade city, Florida Charter Member since January 2006
 
Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/19/2008 10:49 AM
the 55 chevy truck from south texas sure feel on it's face. only 55k. interior is what hurt it in my opinion. truck was nice but i didn't care for the interior.
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by lildude  -  01/19/2008 11:03 AM
seems to me, most of the selling prices are down $20,000-$30,000 or more, from what they have been in the past, even some of the corvettes seem to be going a little low, and every body knows corvette folks are a little out there with there passion
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Posted by EZRodder  -  01/19/2008 12:01 PM
I thought they dropped the hammer pretty quick for Tony Stewart's bid on the Lead Sled.
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Posted by iajonesy  -  01/19/2008 12:53 PM
The Friday night cars weren't bringing much were they? That's why we build to drive not to proffit.


Mike
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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/19/2008 01:28 PM
i dont know, the fords are going well and the camaros are bring top money. a few streetrods are doing ok but mostly steel cars.
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/21/2008 08:13 AM
well pu's did well this year. a 53 ford brought 75k, 56 ford 68k , 55 chevy 60k, and the custom 55 chevy 55k. not bad numbers for trucks . i have a 54 ford, 57 chevy big window so far. i hope to keep the ford for myself since i got rid of that pos powerstroke
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by fitzwell   -  01/21/2008 10:29 AM
i liked the commentary from the stage. One of the cars was "allright, but if it was built by a BIG NAME shop, it would have an advantage" This is the same show auction that, a couple of years ago had an absolutely gorgeous Zephyr with a v12 flatty go for big BIG dollars. The commentators were fawning all over the car, like lemmings at a goodguys show to Boyd Cotterpin. Later in the show they state that the car was built in a one man shop, somewhere in the midewst. Funny how times change. Personally, i think the stage commentator needs to be rolled in the gravel & be sentenced to drive a diesel chevette for the rest of his days. What a freakin nitwit.
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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/21/2008 10:46 AM
god if i see one more whinny thread about how bj is ruining the hobby waaa waaa waaa i'm gonna puke. geez this is the 37 th auction for crying out loud . these are COLLECTOR CAR auctions. they are there to buy classics and collectables. not some cookie cutter streetrod that somebody thinks they're gonna knock a home run on. i bet if any one of those crying about it had a car go across at 110k they would be singing a different tune today. it aint no different than the fort worth auto auction . you go there and those pirana's will eat you alive
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by jgregory21  -  01/21/2008 11:03 AM
Shine, I don't deal with Pirana's, there are better fish in the stream!!
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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  01/21/2008 11:10 AM
you go to an auto auction you best be experienced or a fast learner i've had the joy of dealing with that bunch over the years.
dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003
 
Posted by 50pickup  -  01/21/2008 04:41 PM
Mustangs, Camaros, Chevelles, AmphiCars ad nauseum!
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Posted by robymarks  -  01/21/2008 05:44 PM
Markets come and markets go. They usually come again. Do what makes you happy and don't worry about it. Just don't use the grocery money!.
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Posted by dixie  -  01/21/2008 08:18 PM
That 63 corvette that went so high know about it thats a smoking mirrow. please don't belive all u see .
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