Buyer's market for pristine RWD Caddies?

[deVille33]

[quote=deVille33;1525592]

Originally Posted by Highway Star

As a whole, I don't think prices have changed much from a year ago. Also, it may depend on age with these cars. Caddys less than say 25 years old, probably fall into the "used car" category, while those older are considered "classic/vintage". That will affect prices somewhat.

I've been following prices on the late '70s models for nearly 2 years now, since I decided to purchase a low mileage one back in '06. At that time there was a '77 Coupe with 8,000 miles @ $25,000 (kinda high), a '79 Coupe with 23,000 miles for around $12,000 and a '77 Coupe with 67,000 miles that was being offered @ around $7,000 (nice, but was needing some attention). There were several others at the time with less than 25K miles in the $8,000-$12,000 range.



I found this coupe on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cadil...spagenameZWDVW

It's different in that there is no landau or vinyl top, and is all white which makes the car look very clean. There is a suggestion of bondo along the bottom lines. There are not good pics of the driver's seat or the driver's door panel, which I use for a judgement point, but what is evident in the pics looks good. The new paint could be covering a lot.
It's been bid up to near 4.9M with less than 11 hr.s to go. The guy selling wants 7.5M, which I think is a stretch.
We'll see how this plays out.

[deVille33]

[quote=deVille33;1528395]

Okay,
That '78 coupe went for 6.1M, and it had 111,000 mi. on the car with 6,000 on the trans. with 11 bids.
I think that would be relative to Highway Star's quote on the '77 Coupe with 67,000 mi. on it. So, I don't think people's interest in well maintained, good appearing cars will wane due to the price of fuel.
Let's face it these cars have something all those newer car's don't have. Distinction and character.