Gas Monkey Garage mustang OT

The green Mustang that was featured on the show last night is on an eBay auction and bids are up to $200,200. It's a regular Mustang ! What am I missing here? Auction #291109842425. I'm thinking good luck getting paid after Richard Rawlings finds out it is some kids playing around that don't have any money. I don't know.

The ONLY reason that thing is so high is the fact it was on TV, and IMO not one of the better "reality shows:.

I like the show,but that thing is nowhere near 200k. I'm not sure they fixed the bondo in the quarter problem, let alone that horrid interior.It did look good though not 200k good though!

If the green mustang is up to 200k maybe he should have put that Boss 429 on e-bay. He only got about 175k for that at B/J auction

Rust in the trunk and all kinds of problems that were not taken care of. Some people have more money than brains
Walt

Watched the show once and saw them just royally screw up an all original car...that they were supposed to be keeping all original, because they were more concerned with getting it done quick rather than done right. Buddy of mine that owns a body shop once saw several of the cars off one of the older shows where they "fixed up" peoples cars. Said it some of the worst body and paint work he"d ever seen. Looked good from a distance, and I guess on TV, but up close you could see they didn"t paint the door jambs, the taping was atrocious, etc, etc.

A friend of mine is a friend of a guy that is also a customer that purchased a silver one with black accents about a half year ago. He emailed me pictures of it in the guy's garage. I had never seen or heard of one before or afterwards until now. It was ok I suppose, but didn't do much for me. As I recall, he paid something like $140K for it. This fella restores cars as a hobby and then takes them to Barrets in Vegas and auctions them off. I've seen some nice cars in one of the guys basements, Vettes, Chevelles, 429 Mustangs, and most recently a 440 GTX.

I remember a couple few years ago was some reality show about customizing cars from some shop in Manteno, IL, and I caught an episode. While some guy was out of town, his wife gave him a birthday present of taking his cherry, mint about '65 or '66 Impala or Chevelle, I forget which, to the shop where they chopped the top, cut the wheel wells out, put 22" rimmed wheels and stuff on it, customized the heck out of it. When the guy got home, she took him out to the garage where the customizers met him to show him what they did to his car. I would have gone into my house grabbed a gun, and made the newspapers over that one, had it been my car they trashed like that. At the very least, I would have divorced her for that.

Hey. its their money, God love them for enjoying it, and doing what they can to get the economy going by putting some of it our there in circulation.

Mark

I grew up only a couple of miles from where the Boss 429 Mustang was found. French Lake Junk yard Annandale MN. I know when you go there, there is no haggling over the price. You pay what they want or walk. The owners are not poor people but they are fare and honest.
I have over the years brought scrap iron in and sold. They pay a fare price. I also buy all my tractor batteries there. almost all the batteries they sell are less then a year old.
Brian

$202,200.00
How can that be when it sold for
$51,377.77
Did you put your decimal in the wrong spot.

looks like somebody didn't get their information from a reliable source,thanks for the correction.

I don't like those shows. Chip Foose kept up that they might still be able to get the Plymouth from the time capsule in Tulsa running after 50 years of on-and-off flooding. It had pieces of leaf spring falling out from under it when they lifted it out.

I guess there's someone around here that had those people who did "trick my truck" do his, they butchered the wiring so bad it was cheaper to get another truck than to fix it.

I bet these guys would have had time to fix those other cars right, if they hadn't been talking to the camera guy about what all they need to do and not being sure how they were going to get it done in the time they had.

And if someone did to my all original car what someone else here said was done to one, I would have made the national news.

It's an interesting enough show, but they don't really finish most of the cars completely. Ive seen several that don't get headliners, carpet, or new body panels where they really need it. They like to clear coat over rusty bodies to save the "patina" too. Makes me nuts to see that. If you are going to paint it then paint it and fix it's problems.
That GREEN 72 Mustang is in no way worth what the ebay auction closed at. There was nothing special about it other than a coat of paint and an interior that was mismatched. The Mach 1 hood and stripes look good, but that's about it. I bet we see it on there again.
I would like to be able to afford one of those COPO Camaro's though. Pretty cool cars even if you can't put one on the street.

Greg

Or their moms retracted their bids. Or their meds kicked in.

I routinely spend my spare time helping friends that have a restoration(?) shop. I can tell you that there is NO WAY IN H$!! that you can rebuild a car in 1 week. Ive seen cases where the parts take months to be found and acquired...not to mention time for paint, primer etc to cure where it can be finished.As for the "resto mods" you dont do that to an original collector car such as a GTX or SS or Boss Mustang. That is for the 6 cylinder Chevelle, Satelite or Mustang that the old lady drove to church.When you do this, it makes a good car but dont try to pass it off as an original. That is Fraud.
If you can overlook all of the stupid BS that is done for the benefit of the camera (Mark vs Darin, etc.) the Graveyard Cars show is probably the most realistic in terms of time and process. This is a real body shop that was there before the show, the restoration part is a sideline. Worman makes his money fixing fender benders.
I have no opinion re Gas Monkey as I dont care for the show or characters.
Just my 2 cents worth.

(quoted from post at 07:25:47 03/26/14) I routinely spend my spare time helping friends that have a restoration(?) shop. I can tell you that there is NO WAY IN H$!! that you can rebuild a car in 1 week.

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They don't, and don't ever claim to. At least not on the "1 week" projects.

They're flipping the cars, not restoring them. Bring them in, get them running and driving and presentable, maybe add a few customizations... It's the bare minimum necessary to (hopefully) maximize profit.

In the tractor collecting world we call them "tractor jockeys." Rawlings is a "car jockey."

Just like in tractors, there's no money in doing a full-on restoration unless you're doing it for someone else.

Like you, I don"t get the appeal of their cars.

That green Mustang is a bondo buggy. The rear fenders were rusted out over the wheel wells when they bought the car. If you look at the pictures in the ebay listing, the drivers door has rust on the bottom and the door jamb has a noticible bondo just behind the sill plate. The least they could have done was sand that out so it wasn"t so obvious. It looks like their reputation catches up with them at auction because their cars just don"t get the bids.

(quoted from post at 08:04:05 03/26/14) Like you, I don"t get the appeal of their cars.

That green Mustang is a bondo buggy. The rear fenders were rusted out over the wheel wells when they bought the car. If you look at the pictures in the ebay listing, the drivers door has rust on the bottom and the door jamb has a noticible bondo just behind the sill plate. The least they could have done was sand that out so it wasn"t so obvious. It looks like their reputation catches up with them at auction because their cars just don"t get the bids.

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The real question is, did it sell for more than they had in it?

You guys are trying to make them out to be something that they are not, and never claimed to be.

Selling restored cars is what Wayne Carini does.