I've often wondered........

Goose · Apr 26, 2015

When guys advertise a tractor in the photo ads as "very rare, only 138 built", or whatever, and triple the asking price, do you suppose only a few were built 'cause nobody wanted that model in the first place?

The marketplace does remarkable things.

ShadetreeRet · Apr 26, 2015

In many instances, I'm sure that is the answer. BUT, as time passes, collectors with fat wallets seek out those flukes for that simple fact, that there are only a few in existence. Example, the Dodge Daytona and the Plymouth Super Bird. It was mandatory that X-number of them be manufactured and offered for sale to the general public in order to qualify them as "stock" (ha-ha) cars to run in NASCAR. Yet, most dealers couldn't give them away. Only a dyed in the wool hot rodder or NASCAR fan wouldhave been seen driving one on the highway, yet, now they fetch high five and even six figure prices at collector auctions.

old · Apr 26, 2015

Many times people do not have a clue what the term rare is really saying. If you look at what Webster says rare means fewer then 10 or some such thing as in fewer then that number in the whole world

JayinNY · Apr 26, 2015

Or like the Dodge rampage! Lol

da.bees · Apr 26, 2015

Shucks,there's more 1969 Daytonas,Shelbys and 302 Cameros now days than origionally built and sold.
Yea some of the most sought after collector items were white elephants when new. Or like the little syrup tins we played with and threw in the burn pile,things that were discarded once they served their purpose.
When our first child was on the way in 1967 we were car shopping when a salesman insisted I test drive a 2 dr ht Fairlane even after I told him I wanted to see a 4 dr sedan. It easily lite them up in all four gears. Oh how I wish someone would try to push a 427 side oiler on me tomorrow. As Shadetree said,they were desperate to sell that car.

gtractorfan · Apr 27, 2015

Yes how about the Minney-Mo UDLX?

wilson ind · Apr 27, 2015

please explain the side oilier thats a term I never heard before thank you

RESLLS · Apr 27, 2015

Two different models of 427 block were produced, the 427 top oiler and 427 side oiler. The top oiler version was the earlier, and delivered oil to the cam and valvetrain first and the crank second. The side oiler block, introduced in 1965, sent oil to the crank first and the cam and valvetrain second.

NoNewParts · Apr 27, 2015

(quoted from post at 01:58:45 04/27/15) Shucks,there's more 1969 Daytonas,Shelbys and 302 Cameros now days than origionally built and sold.
Yea some of the most sought after collector items were white elephants when new. Or like the little syrup tins we played with and threw in the burn pile,things that were discarded once they served their purpose.
When our first child was on the way in 1967 we were car shopping when a salesman insisted I test drive a 2 dr ht Fairlane even after I told him I wanted to see a 4 dr sedan. It easily lite them up in all four gears. Oh how I wish someone would try to push a 427 side oiler on me tomorrow. As Shadetree said,they were desperate to sell that car.

agree. I've owned more Mustangs and Torino GT's than I can count, back when they were just....
"Whatcha messing with them junk Fords fer" kind of cars.
When I bought my 69 Mach1 428CJ....for $1500...it had sat for sale for months....nobody wanted it.(fairly nice, it needed nothing)
When I sold the car many years later, all the buyers lined up were wearing suits, and by the looks of their hands..had never touched a wrench.

(and I SURE wish I wouldn't have passed up all those 66-67 Fairlanes back then. I want one now, but it will never happen....)

Billy Shafer · Apr 27, 2015

Carroll Shelby offered my dad a Cobra at 50.00 dollars a month. I told dad to take it since I was going into the Navy. I could pay for it.My first letter in boot camp came. With the words turned down the Cobra. Just a hot rod with no value.In later years dad said he kicked himself everyday for not taking Shelby up on the offer.

Karl in MD · Apr 27, 2015

Or my favorite, the now unobtainable 427 SOHC. I remember somebody advertising several of them in crates in HOT ROD in the late '60s or early '70s for $1,500.00 each.

Bolens 1000 · Apr 27, 2015

Everything seems to be "rare" today no matter if its a full sized tractor or a small garden tractor or engine. The word essentially means nothing anymore with everyone and their brother using it when they sell something. To me Rare is when 10 or fewer machines exist.
I guess the sellers figure if they add 'Rare' it makes it more valuable LOL

Billy NY · Apr 27, 2015

LOL !!! My father had an '82 rampage, nifty little vehicle, similar to the Subaru Brat. Carbone, just rebuilt the old grand union here in town as a new Subaru dealership, just saw a brat out back, most if not all of those are gone, I've not seen any of these in years.

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