That's a good point. Driver quality is anything. For 50k it should at least have some "show quality" aspects to it. If not the whole thing, at least some of it.
And remember how far advertisers can stretch a definition. Remember when "rust free" actually meant that?%)
Some sellers have been brutally honest about what they had and got some good money for them because the buyer wasn't as worried about the hidden stuff. Everyone I've talked to that jumped on one without looking super carefully first though, got at least partially hosed.
Some way more than partially!
I should add to what I said earlier about "no rhyme or reason" being taken from the most obvious things we see and hear. But I for one have not followed every sale, every custom build, every home-built, or every rust-bucket Bronco sale that's happened in the last five years. So I can't actually say anything with 100% certainty.
Even if I try to sometimes!
But I still stand by what I said earlier, with regard to the ones that you see in the public eye. And also those that do not sell.
Just yesterday at the Mecum auction (in KY I think?) they had three very nice EB's come up in fairly quick succession on TV. I forget the details, but the first two stalled out in the low twenties and did not sell if I'm remembering correctly. A super sanitary Yellow half-cab (looked like I've seen it before, either here or at auctions already) bid up to $22k I think?
The last one (the nicest to some apparently) went up to $33 I think, but I don't believe it sold either. Many cases of the seller expecting more than the buyers were willing to part with.
And these were complete Broncos, some with lots of goodies.
Would guess that the full info is available on their site if you're interested.
Even my buddy from my previous post tried and failed to sell an uber-trick Lime Green work of off-road art at Mecum in Monterey earlier this year. It was 100% complete, ultra trick (not what everyone wants, but a lot of money was spent on it) and he thought the market would bear $70k. Unfortunately it only bid up to $55k at the time, and he passed. No sale that weekend, and it took another couple of months to see it go.
When he asked a few of us what we thought it was worth, we said about $50k or so at auction at the time.
Too bad he asked us after the fact!
It's a crapshoot out there still.
Paul
