Automotive Adventures: Prices, Parts, and Nostalgia

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Howdy along the bike out of this world, Mars King Conrad DeLong.

We always need more.

Jeff Seekin.

I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us on this rainy, cool, ugly, yes, kind of weekend.

You know we have not had a weekend like this, I don't think, since the beginning of the year, and here we are in November.

I almost came to work today in my jammies.

Yeah, the ones with your flannel jammies, with the ones with the shoes in them.

Yeah, and a little flap in the back.

Flap in the back, Well, I wear mine in the front.

You would.

So we don't have a guest this hour, but you're going to be entertained anyway.

We're going to make sure of it.

So we have this thing that we've gotten into by default.

I think Hemmings puts out a thing on Mondays called the sold cars roundup and you know you can sell your car on Hemmings.

Most of some of them are custom, some of them are just regular everyday cars and other ones are classics, I mean all over the board.

You can buy a Model T there, a Model A.

You can buy a 1968 AMC AMX Ooh, cool car.

That would be the first one, a 1968 model that we're going to go with today.

And these are all bid prices and some of them sell, some of them don't.

The ones that we're going to deal with are the ones that sold.

So what's sold online at Hemmingscom was a 1968 AMC AMX.

Now, this was the hot rod version from American Motors.

It didn't have a back seat.

It was a Challenger, but it was shortened wheelbase.

So what would your guess be, mr Mars, of how much the 1968 AMC AMX went for?

Now, before you give us your figure, let me explain to everybody that we don't know the condition of the car.

We don't know if this is a 390 GO package.

We don't know any of that.

We don't know the details on it.

I can tell you that it looks kind of like maroonish with some white stripes on it, and that's pretty much about it.

It looks like it has factory wheels on it, but we don't know, it may be completely rusted underneath it.

I don't know that.

So we just this is just a fun thing that we do so.

68 AMC, amx.

Mr Mars, what would you say?

That went 32,000?

.

Mars says 32.

I was going to go 32.

So I'll go 35.

I'll go 35 01.

Well all of you, probably six, grand right, 26,000.

Oh, 50.

Really, wow.

Really less than way, less than I'd have thought Me too, Actually, because AMX to me is a pretty collectible car.

It is because they didn't make that many of them in the overall scheme of things, and I didn't even know until I was an adult that the thing only had two seats in it.

Here you go.

Here's one for Jeff.

All right, jeff's Cadillac guy.

Here is a 1958 Cadillac 62.

Now it is a two door.

It's a three zip code car.

It's a three zip code car in two door fashion and it sold for Mr Mars.

What would you guess be for a 58 Cadillac 62?

21,000.

You need to move that microphone a little bit closer.

I've got 25.

Okay so, 40 grand, 40 grand.

Well, conrad's going to win this one.

It sold for 27,825 and it looks to append.

I would re-count.

White with wide whites on it.

It is beautiful.

And you got to remember in you know, as GM was building cars, you know that 55 through 57s was all kind of common.

The 58 year model of all of the GM brands was a one year only car and quad headlights, and they were massive, absolutely massive.

Yeah, the steel bill alone was yeah.

Yeah.

The chrome bill you know that chrome and they stamped him in the plant.

And let's not forget, they have some whopping Dagmars out in front, dagmars are awesome.

Yeah, this one had the black rubber bumper.

Oh, yeah.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

Yeah, that one Pastey daggers.

So let's move on and go with another Cadillac Right up Jeff's alley.

All right, he's staying out of my alley 2008.

What year did Cadillac?

Do you have 10.

?

You have a 10.

So this is a 2008 Cadillac CTS.

No 13 months and 13.

Sorry, 2008 Cadillac CTS.

It's a four door since first generation CTS Okay.

And what would you, what would your bid be there, mr Mars, I'll tell you what it's so 7500 7500 Conrad, I'll go 6000, 12 grand 12 grand Well, Conrad wins again.

Oh, the sole price for that car was $10,500 black.

No Mars.

We're going to need a 7500 and Mars would have won.

He was 7500.

Okay, well, whatever the case may, be 2000 Celine Mustang.

It's called an S 281 for whatever reason, but it's a 2000 model, the 281 is.

The number no 281 is the model is the model and it is a convertible.

Okay, it's yellow convertible.

This is a Randy Weldon car.

It's a Randy Weldon car.

You missed one.

So, mars, what would your guess be on a 2000 Steve Celine S 281 Mustang?

I'm going to go.

17,000 Conrad, I'll go 20, 22.

Conrad wins again.

21,000 is what it sold for All right, mars, this is right up your alley.

Oh boy, new York ville in 1987.

Chevrolet C 10.

87 square body.

It's a sharp looking truck, black, got a custom grill on it.

Looks like it's got, you know, wheel trim rings on it.

It's a single cab, I think that's all they made.

Is there a in?

the back.

Short bed or long bed?

It looks like a short bed.

87 Chevy C 10.

How much.

Those things are pretty popular right now for some reason.

What do you think it sold for?

Again we don't know the condition 18,000.

Okay, yeah, I'll go.

22 22, jeff 19 12,600 dollars.

Mars wins Well, close, but it's over.

Okay, it's all right.

Now I don't know which one, I'll go ahead and go ahead and take this one.

This is right up my alley.

A 1956 GMC city bus.

Oh 56 GMC city bus.

Now it looks like it was pulled out of the junkyard.

It's straight, but it does have some patina on it.

Looks like it hasn't been touched.

You know, what patina is right.

It's rust made sound pretty.

So it's red and white, it looks good.

I mean, what city?

It doesn't say what city?

Chicago got a lot of holes in it.

No, it's not a northern bus because it would be all rusted up bad.

56 GMC city bus.

How much did this include the turbo?

No, any of that I'm going to go for I'm going to go for grand, oh, 4500.

$8000.

Now I don't know if it runs or not, but they got the weeds cut down around it so it might they're going to pull it out.

Here we go, jeff.

No, I think this would be Conrad.

Well, no, Jeff would win because 5500.

It's going to cost you $1000 to tow it somewhere, so you only net 4500.

It might take an 18-wheeler flatbed to get the thing out of there.

Here's one 1934 Holden.

I did not know that Holden made a pickup truck Holden.

Holden, is it Australian?

Not a.

Ute A real pickup truck.

Is that an?

Australian vehicle yeah.

Yes, but no, it's a real pickup truck with fenders on it A 1934.

Well, you know what that 34-ish looks like.

I'll even show it to you I didn't even go to the Air Carps in Australia in 34.

There you go.

Cool.

It is nice.

It's orange and black Halloween paint scheme there, all right.

So a 1934 Holden pickup truck.

What do you think that that would sell for?

It looks like it's been restored.

It's really nice.

Yeah, wire wheels on it, white, whites.

I'd probably say 30.

30, okay, conrad, conrad got 35.

Really.

I'm going to go 17.

Jeff is going to be the winner, even though he's over 16275.

I would buy that.

I forget, but I don't know where you get that to get it into the country.

Well, it's here in the country, obviously, if it's on Hemmings.

Yeah, but I'm saying, though, to get it in, somebody had to somebody mail it over.

All right In pieces, piece by piece.

Speaking of Ford, slowly I turn pickup.

Try, that's it A 1951 Ford F3.

Looks like it's been fully restored.

51 Ford F3 stock Okay, so that would have probably a straight six in it, my guess, okay 51 Ford F3 and F3.

I don't know.

It's going to be a one ton, huh Well, I don't know.

It looks like a regular F1, which is a half ton pickup truck.

So, at any rate, what would you think that that's sold for?

Look stock.

It looks like it's been refurbed 14,000, maybe 14.

I'm going to go 20.

20, 12.

12.

15, 750.

I think that that's pretty good.

See, I'd buy something like that.

Mars wins again Mars.

Europe by three Wow.

Okay, this is a really cool car caught my attention.

It's a 1971 Ford LTD convertible.

Oh no, police package or anything, I don't know.

Not a convertible.

Seven liter.

He's going to come over there and slap somebody.

Seven liters in the back seat.

Seven liters of booze?

All right, yeah, come on Mars.

What year is it?

A 71 Ford.

LTD.

It looks like it's been restored.

At least it's got a nice.

I'm going to go $6,500.

$6,500.

Mr 75.

75.

Four grand, four grand.

Conrad hit it right on the nose.

Oh boy, $7,500.

Just because it's a white convertible.

He's been in the back of those many times, he knows.

Yeah, with my handcuffed behind me Okay.

Here are a couple of model.

Oh my gosh.

Pulling things out of my pocket to drop under the seat.

One is a 1929 Ford model, a beautiful car, convertible.

It looks like it's been fully.

Both of these cars look like they've been fully restored.

Now what would you expect?

A 1929 Ford model a?

Just restored to original or looks at both of these.

No, both of these look like their originals.

I'm going to go 16,012.

10.

Well, you all are close.

14,963 is what it sold for.

I'll take that one, and part of the reason that I was interested in this because it just shows that for not a whole lot of money you could get in the whatever car class that you wanted to get in, and if you think it's cool, it's even better because you're spending the money on something you want.

Yeah, the next one is a 31 model a.

It too is a convertible.

It's got beige wheels, wide whites.

It shows really nice.

Well, it's a two tone, so it's a guy like a dark blue with black fenders.

I'll still say 12, 12 Mars yeah.

I'm gonna say a couple years younger, I'm gonna say 1517.

Yeah 1950.

Oh, jeffrey, yeah, and you know if you're looking for a present for your wife or your husband or girlfriend, that would be cool.

And so with this one, a 1983 Lincoln MK six, which is the big sedan, almost looks like a you know a livery.

Okay, it's, it's blue, it's got a blue vinyl top on it, white wall tires, nice hubcaps on it.

It looks brand new.

This is that generation, when they were doing like the Cartier edition.

Yeah, but I don't know about that.

But anyway, 1983 Lincoln MK six.

What would you say that that would bring Mr Mars?

14,006 grand 12.

Well, you're close, sold for $9,000.

No, honey, I can't put it under the Christmas tree, but it is in the driveway.

Come check it out.

Come check it.

Hey, Kylie's got a birthday coming up.

Oh God, You're driving that to school.

That'd be awesome.

Yeah, we had to get her a booster seat.

Here's one.

No, here's the one for her A 1962 Ford Galaxy 500.

Oh man 62.

Galaxy 500.

Two door it is a four door.

I get the picture.

It's a.

It's a four door.

I know it's red in color Okay.

That's all.

I know it could have a you know a two barrel V eight in it.

It just I don't know.

It looks stock, it's going to be a V eight.

I know that but not a hot rod.

No, no, no, no.

So 62 Ford Galaxy 500.

Mr Mars 6,000.

6,000.

I'm going to go for four 17.

32,000.

$2,550.

It's got to be that's a soul price.

That's the soul price.

It's got to be a full restoration out.

I don't know who would want to.

Well, even beyond that, it's got to have you know they were offered with a 390, but they were also offered with a 427 in 62.

Not in a four door, not right?

Yeah, probably true, no that to be a 90 was some museum or something was after that, yeah, so collection.

All right, now we're going to move in Somebody with more dollars than cents.

We're going to hop in a different direction now.

1982 Volkswagen Rabbit.

Oh yeah, rabbit A rabbit.

I've always kind of liked those cars.

For some reason I'm not sure why Exactly They've kind of grown up with the GTI.

But at any rate, I say 82 Volkswagen Rabbit.

It looks clean, it may have 200,000 miles on it, I don't know.

Brown in color, that doesn't help, oh Rabbit.

Brown.

Yeah.

Little little little pebbles, pebble brown pebbles all over it, pellet Brown.

What do you say bars?

8500 dollars.

8500 Brown killed it.

I'll say four, six Conrad right on the money $4,100.

Now that would be a car for Kyle.

Again, yep, no just need to be near and sweep the driveway up every day.

That's right.

What do you feed it?

Put some new newspapers underneath the cage.

I'll take low octane and a head of lettuce.

Speaking of Volkswagen.

Here is 1973 Volkswagen Beetle.

Looks clean, blue, had some slight modification, different wheels on it.

It's got some fog lights on it 73 is a true bug.

That would be an air cooled car, not the later version 73 Volkswagen Beetle Bars you're up $7,500.

Okay, Conrad.

I'll go nine.

See, I was going to go nine.

I'll go eight.

Well, Jeffrey wins this one $7,950.

No, close enough, you ever work on one of them.

I never have I worked on a couple of them.

The first thing any instructor says is take out the four bolts and drop the motor.

Yep, that's right To do the clutch to do anything.

Take the four bolts out and drop the motor.

And if you were a big, strong buff guy, you would slide underneath it and you'd drop it on your, take it out and carry it under one arm Yep.

Well, Dave Kendrick is a huge Volkswagen Vogue fan.

You know, if you jack it up high enough in the air, you'd let the motor right down on the ground Just slide it out, jackstand.

That's exactly what we did.

Yep, and there are all sorts of hot rotting kits for that motor.

Well, we had the VW Drag guy on last week.

We get you in touch with him and he'd steer you in the right direction, whether you were going to hot rod it or just hot rod it for the street.

Build a wheel standard.

No, I wouldn't want to go that far.

No, no, but that's I mean.

You could you could yes you could put out that kind of power.

I'm in favor of the sleeper.

You make it I do me too, yeah, the sleeper is the way to go.

That'd be me, With the big unicorn exhaust system sticking up the back.

No, no no, I would not do that, I would do?

Is that what it's called?

Stinger, I would do the headers with the standard looking dual exhaust out of the back and just smoke everybody on the street with that thing.

That's what I'd do.

Well, you got to remember, some of the early ones didn't have 60 horsepower, correct, you know.

And then the later ones, you know, and I, you know I think the guy last week was talking about you can get up to 400 horsepower out of one of those.

Yeah Well, I'm good with that.

Now, not on an air cool engine, sorry.

Get put bigger jugs on it, and then you'd always Everything's better Bigger jugs yeah.

Ha, ha, ha ha ha, becky, he didn't mean to say that.

He just kind of slipped.

No, it's, it's, it's.

Uh, yeah, he did.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Well, that's the first thing you look at when you're going to hop it up.

You got to see, you know, do I that's the first thing you look at.

Yes, oh my God, there's that.

Yeah, all right.

Well, that was a fun little segment, wasn't it?

Well, you?

referred to um.

Ended on a what to get, kylie, what did you get your girls as their first cars, or what were their first cars?

Let's see.

Amy, I bought her a used Camaro that was about you know, four or five years old and uh, it had like 35,000 miles on it.

One owner, it was clean, it was owned by a woman and so it was clean and it ran fine, for I guess she put close to 100,000 miles on it.

Oh well, and uh then with Katie, uh, her first car, I bought it.

It was a brand new.

Well, it had 1200 miles on it, 1200 miles.

It was a repo, it was a Ford Focus black cloth, interior, two door and and shift.

It had a five speed manual transmission in it.

She still has it, it has 180,000 miles on it, I think, and she's still driving it, and it is in Denver.

Cool.

What'd you get, Mike?

Oh, he ended up.

His first vehicle was a little Nissan truck that we lowered, had it painted and wheels and fixed it all up.

What'd you get For who?

Your daughter.

Oh for Laura.

Laura had a Mazda three, Jason had a Chevy Blazer.

Would they work out for him?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Rochelle had a 99 Chevy three door pickup truck.

Remember when they made the three doors?

just the half door on the driver.

I'm standing here, not really a full extended cab.

Technically, laura had my Camaro and then she got.

She saved her money to get the Mazda three Gotcha.

But I wanted to put some iron around that girl.

Well, you know it's funny because everybody thinks oh, you bought her a new car.

Well, you know how much that new car was $7,000 at the time.

Yeah, it was a stripper, it was a.

Same car costs just $7,000 today Probably.

Yeah, I put you could only get it probably $1,000 for a trade in, or so oh yeah, and it had a clutch problem and they fixed it under warranty and it has not had a problem since I'll be there Really of any kind, other than I think that she mashed every single fender on it throughout the years.

Well, denver Area.

No, no, no, no, no no not, not, not as an adult.

This is all in her teens years.

That's why I didn't want to spend a lot of money on the car.

She was going to St Agnes, yep, oh yeah, st Agnes, and actually it was just St Agnes where she Well, the devil made me do it it mashed every fender on it.

Oh well, okay, we got headlines and we can.

We can do headlines, let's do some, let's do some.

Recalls Every portion, every portion.

9, 11 known demand from the 22 model year to 24 being recalled.

Seat mounted airbag may deploy unnecessarily that's care the poop, any of it would seat belt assembly inaccessible for the Jeep grand wagon here and wagon here, for how do you build one that's inaccessible?

I don't know, that's what it says.

Multiple camera images may not display on the Mazda CX 90 and the Mazda 3 for 2024.

So CX 90 for 2024, engine and electric motor may shut down unexpectedly.

Oops, that's not good.

That's not good.

Toyota Highlander and Highlander hybrid front bumper assembly made detach.

Only once, and then you run it over.

Oh, oh, martha, I think we ran over our own bumper.

Come out there and get it.

Can you run back there and get it real quick?

See if we can straighten it out.

Don will be flying over going.

Oh, look at this traffic jam.

Martha's out there picking up her bumper.

Subaru Forester Martha, what are you driving?

Good-bye, hillary Clinton for the time being.

Could you put that microphone on?

He's.

He's talking to the next guest.

No, it's not a guest, that's Randy.

Yes, what was the question?

What are you driving now?

Subaru?

Cross Trek.

So the Subaru Forester for 2024 has an engine water pipe that may leak coolant.

Thought you'd like to know.

Kia Soul EV unintended movement due to damaged park mechanism 2015 through 2019.

Pop up hood may not activate in the pedestrian crash in the Nissan Z.

That's a new thing.

Low brake fluid warning and operative on the Ford Mustang 2020 through 2023.

Randy and the Toyota RAV4 2013 to 2018.

Unsecured battery may cause a short circuit.

I think we went over that in a thermal event.

Thermal event that one Retail demand for new vehicles is cooling along with the temperatures outside in the wake of high interest rates and elevated prices, even as inventories and incentives abound.

I think the interest rates is the biggest driver of that.

Yeah, I think you're right.

Sales dropped 5.2%

at Ford, snapping a streak of 10 monthly gains, as the six week UAW strike against the Detroit three impacted output of key name plates such as the Ranger and Bronco.

Volume also felled at Mazda for the first time in a year, with light car and light truck sales both lower cox and higher cox.

Remember, carlos, why I called him go, son.

I think it's going.

Remember him?

Yeah, how's he doing?

Well, fitting his luggage still.

I guess you're taking a nap in there.

Four years ago Carlos goes in was under house arrest when he escaped from Japan inside an audio equipment case.

Now he's in the opposite position, fighting to remain in his home, is in the barrel after a judge in Lebanon ordered him to get out.

Former Nissan and Renault, or Renault chairman, is appealing the ruling of victim him from his $19 million pink walled home in Beirut where he has lived since fleeing prosecution in Japan.

The October 16th order requires Gosen and his wife no name here attached to that to vacate the property within a month.

And for the for, gosen told agents which is a French press thing that he now has documents supporting the appeal that were still in Japan when prior hearings on the matter took place.

So, carlos, you're still in trouble and always will be.

You can't now you're living in Lebanon.

Yeah, they need that house for, for somebody else is what they knew.

The him out of it.

No, it's no less.

Yeah, why don't you just go.

I wonder why it was important for them to tell us it was a pink house.

Well, how odd.

It is kind of odd, isn't it?

So at any rate Bruce Springsteen might move in.

Why do you say that, little pink?

houses goes with this pink Cadillac.

Good, good.

All right.

And finally the board of crews, the Robo taxi company controlled by General Motors.

It's running over people and hired an outside law firm and technology consultants in the aftermath of an accident that led it to suspend all driverless vehicle operations.

Crew said Friday federal state safety regulators investigating a series of accidents involving driverless cruise vehicles.

California regulators suspended the company's license to operate driverless vehicles last month, saying the self driving vehicles were a risk to the public.

California regulators said crews of they just figured that out.

misrepresented information about an accident In which a cruise car struck a pedestrian after she had been hit by another vehicle operated by a human driver.

So let's go over the get with pause.

All driverless operations, your favorite GM.

Gm CEO, mary Barra, who also sits on cruises board, has told investors crews could generate 50 billion in revenue by 2030.

The operation lost more than $700 million in the third quarter of this year as it has increased spending to expand operations to 15 cities in the US.

Oops, watch out.

Yeah, wait, wait till the lawsuits.

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