When I lived in Kansas City, Duffy's used to bring vehicles down to the
Mecum auctions. I remember his stuff being good, not great, but his
reserve prices were always at the high end -- don't remember what kind
of success he had moving them across the auction block. His strategy
must work, however, since he has been around for awhile.
Bill Marcussen
mark@noakes.com wrote:
>I was on travel this week in Iowa, saw a brochure for a car dealer/museum in
>Cedar
>Rapids named Duffy's, and had a chance to go by there. Has anybody ever heard
>of this
>place?
>
>They had a real nice red 50 Chevy pickup, totally stock, that I would have
>considered a
>2+ on a scale of 1 - 5 with 1 being the best...and they wanted $22K for it! I
>would
>have put a value of about $14K on it at best. I don't think that I'm that out
>of touch
>with things...am I?
>
>They had many other nice cars of all American makes from the 20s on up to the
>70s (Cuda
>convertible), but most of the prices were out of my league. Many of the 60s -
>70s
>muscle cars were in the $30K - $80K range and these were mostly cars rated
>what I would
>consider a 2.
>
>I did get some good stock 283 engine shots off of a 57 2 door coupe...of
>course there
>are a few differences between the cars and the trucks...so I'm still
>interested in any
>stone stock engine shots of the 58/59 truck 283.
>
>Mark Noakes
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