[DeTomaso] Comments or options on Bring a Trailer

[Mike & Elizabeth]

Not sure what to say on your listing application for the orange Pantera.  Taking a look at listing history for Panteras the range, save for a few outliers, is from the low $40's to the mid-$110's, with a huge range in spec and condition.   https://bringatrailer.com/detomaso/pantera/.  The last three orange '74's sold for $70, $127 and $132 with the last two in pristine condition.  These sales were not that long ago so I'm not sure why they're saying the market has gone soft that quickly.

Not direct comment on selling a Pantera but I had a very good experience with BaT selling my '94 F250.  The process does take some time, and as they are becoming more popular, they are getting swamped with inputs and it's taking longer to process each application.  My time line was roughly as follows: Two weeks after submittal to be accepted, 3 weeks to polish the listing and go live, 7 day listing, sold on March 2nd, 2 weeks for the carrier contracted through BaT shipping to retrieve the truck.  Up to some wrinkles in the newly established BaT Shipping service, everything went very smooth and was handled very professionally.

That said, GLWTA, as they say.
Mike Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> On Behalf Of Steven Edwards
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:16 AM
To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Comments or options on Bring a Trailer

I watched a 73 orange Pantera on Bring a Trailer go for good money, a nice car. I restored a 73 that is equal to or, in my opinion, a little better. So I thought that it would be time to try to sell the 73 for it’s owner. It seems that there were more than one person interested in that type of car. A time to strike. I applied to BaT and summitted some pictures and a writeup.
That has been over a month, they have replied with questions some were just trivial things, and wanting more info. The last email they wanted to lower the reserve to $84K saying the market was slow.
After seeing what happened to the 72, I am at a lost now as to what is going on, especially watching B-J last week with it’s very high prices for vehicles I would consider much lower. 
Just wondering what are the inputs from the group, what Pantera prices are and were are they going, and BaT  in general.

Steven Edwards



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