[DeTomaso] NPC Gone in 60 Seconds Mustang

Thu May 23 10:32:01 EDT 2013

It was towed home in an enclosed trailer connected to an Ford F350 Daully
Crew Cab with a trailer hitch devoid of any chrome.

Michael

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Dave <dave at damardirect.com> wrote:

> Extremely talented.
>
> From: Curt Hall [mailto:cuvee at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:54 PM
> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; spkorb at gmail.com; detomaso at poca.com; Dave
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Gone in 60 Seconds Mustang
>
>
> (Rick Champagne, who said he paid more than $4 million because of the
> woman who accompanied him to the auction.)....That had to be ONE HELL of a
> woman!
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 5/22/13, Dave <dave at damardirect.com<mailto:
> dave at damardirect.com>> wrote:
>
> From: Dave <dave at damardirect.com<mailto:dave at damardirect.com>>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Gone in 60 Seconds Mustang
> To: "MikeLDrew at aol.com<mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com>" <MikeLDrew at aol.com
> <mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com>>, "spkorb at gmail.com<mailto:spkorb at gmail.com>" <
> spkorb at gmail.com<mailto:spkorb at gmail.com>>, "detomaso at poca.com<mailto:
> detomaso at poca.com>" <detomaso at poca.com<mailto:detomaso at poca.com>>
> Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:45 PM
> > Seriously, is the market for these things that good?  It's just a damn
> > Shelby tribute car.
>
> Well, the following did not even begin life as a real car, it was an old
> "concept" car.
>
> The original Batmobile sold at BJ, January 20, 2013 for 4.6 MILLION
> Dollars. I saw the car years ago, it was not pretty, as is with most
> Hollywood cars.
>
> >From Black Book:
> In the Batmobile documentary released with "The Dark Knight Rises," it was
> revealed Los Angeles car customizer George Barris bought the 1955 Lincoln
> Futura concept car from Ford for $1. It then took 15 days and $15,000 for
> the car to be turned into the Batmobile.
>
>
>
> The buyer of the car is a Phoenix-area logistics company executive, Rick
> Champagne, who said he paid more than $4 million because of the woman who
> accompanied him to the auction.
>
> IndyDave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com<
> http://us.mc1813.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=MikeLDrew@aol.com> [mailto:
> MikeLDrew at aol.com<
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:51 PM
> To: spkorb at gmail.com<
> http://us.mc1813.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=spkorb@gmail.com>;
> detomaso at poca.com<
> http://us.mc1813.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=detomaso@poca.com>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Gone in 60 Seconds Mustang
>
>
> In a message dated 5/22/13 10 27 27, spkorb at gmail.com<
> http://us.mc1813.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=spkorb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > So if I get my POS '68 FB running again and get Cage to sit in it I
> > could sell it for...
> >
> > Seriously, is the market for these things that good?  It's just a damn
> > Shelby tribute car.  But it does look like a FB that's worth $20k
> > could be woth $40k if I put $5k worth of accessories on it.  Damn.
> >
>
> >>>The BS add-on parts are a LOT more than that.   Heck, the wheels and
> tires alone are probably more than $5K.   There is a lot of stuff going on
> underneath this car--radical suspension modifications, monster brakes,
> killer engine, etc. etc.
>
> All that said, I'm convinced that these cars are the Beanie Babies of the
> automotive world.   Remember how nutso people got when those stupid things
> first came out?   People were hoarding them like they were precious, and
> valuable.   The craze passed and now they're worthless.
>
> The time is coming for these cars--in fact I'm very surprised it's not
> already here.   It wouldn't even surprise me if the high bidder was the
> existing
> owner of the car, trying to inflate its value somehow....
>
> Mike (I would pay more for a replica of the car from the original
> movie--looking like it did at the END of the movie!)
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