This speaks for itself. I used to be into older Porsches but not any more.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PORSCHE-901-911-912-L-S-911S-WOOD-WOODEN-STEERING-WHEEL-VDM-ALUMINUM-SPOKES-/380431746049?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&fits=Year%3A1965%7CMake%3APorsche&hash=item58937fc401&vxp=mtr
That is nucking futz. 
I've noticed insane stuff like that on ebay recently - seats that aren't anything special advertised for $5k, crazy prices like this wheel etc.
My wife tries to keep reassuring me that one day I'll own another torsion bar 911 but just by watching prices recently I'm beginning to doubt this more and more.
he offers free shipping, ya big baby
Well it is stamped 1892, so it is like 120 years old.
Notice it is not sold...
Corvette stuff is the same way, but at least some of it is truly rare.
36K for brakes.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1963-Z06-Corvette-327-Fuel-injection-GM-SCCA-Race-Brakes-Setup-Complete-RARE-/330722061682?pt=Vintage_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4d00922d72&vxp=mtr
Asking price and selling price are two very different things. 
Also, the amount of shill bidding on eBay lately has gotten epically bad. 
Javelin wrote: Asking price and selling price are two *very* different things.
Exactly. Anybody can ask any price for anything. This would be shocking only if it sells at that price.
Javelin wrote: Asking price and selling price are two *very* different things.
yea... the shill bidding is one of the reasons I do not do ebay anymore
You guys missed the really, really fine print. It comes with hookers and blow.
You want to see ridiculous prices, look at some 356 stuff. A buddy of mine parted out a couple of them about 10 years ago. He refurbished all of the parts he took off and stored them away thinking he was going to restore the shells some day. Never got to the seriously rusted out shells and ended up selling them for 5 times what he paid for the cars. Now, when he wants some extra cash, he throws a dash knob or a window crank or some other insignificant part on ebay. Bam another large infusion in his Paypal account.
There is a special level of insanity for 356 junk.
Ya know, I could ALMOST understand it if it were in good condition. But, this one is total JUNK! The wood is crap and one of the spokes is broken. By the time you "restored" that one to be useable, there wouldn't be enough of it left to really call it original. 
BoxheadTim wrote: I've noticed insane stuff like that on ebay recently - seats that aren't anything special advertised for $5k, crazy prices like this wheel etc. My wife tries to keep reassuring me that one day I'll own another torsion bar 911 but just by watching prices recently I'm beginning to doubt this more and more.
How about a header for a 4-cylinder S10?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pacesetter-Exhaust-Header-System-94-95-Chevy-S10-S-10-2-2L-2WD-Pickup-Truck-/400283506356?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item5d32c196b4
I had a 356 back when normal people could own one.
But a $1500 used, steering wheel excludes me from the club these days.
For that kind of money I could use Search Tempest to find an entire, decent MG Midget on craigslist. In fact, I bought an RWA Midget last summer and have less than 1/3 of that in the entire car.
OK, maybe it doesn't have the cache of a German Corvair....and it'll never be as fast. But it easily wins in the fun vs. $ equation. And MGs are too working class to ever be called poser cars.
It's easier to deal with those endless Lucas puns as opposed to the German Car/Porcupine jokes.
Meh. I have seen people selling Pokemon cards for $1800. No word on if anyone has ever sold one. A Hemi 'Cuda is a classic example of a ordinary POS from the 60s but damn if there aren't idiots paying half a million for them. Atleast a 911 needs to be an RSR with racing history to fetch anywhere near that nut.
Fo' the record, I upgraded and refurbished the entire suspension on my 911 for less than that. Woody bought a running 911 for (ballpark guessing) about 3.5x that money. I am more than satisfied with my $65 Momo Competition ebay steering wheel purchase too. Askin' ain't gettin' but if some idiot pays that much just once and nobody stabs him in the neck for being a (insert politically clensed word for retard here) ... the whole market will go to hell.
Woody wrote: There is a special level of insanity for 356 junk.
And you can have a replica that is worlds better than the original for sane money: http://www.intermeccanica.com/
Woody wrote: There is a special level of insanity for 356 junk.
Oh yeah. I was a 356 guy. Had two of them. Sold my last one in 1986 for $6000 to finance a $6500 Sunbeam Tiger purchase.
The 356 was basically a half step up from a Karman Ghia if you analyze it honestly. The early 911's were similiar but with a couple of extra cylinders thrown in.
I have a buddy with a very clean 1966 Porsche 911. Recently he purchased a set of original Solex carbs and Nadella axles with the intent of flipping them to some sap who wants original parts. For those unfamiliar with early 911's the Solex carbs and Nadella axles were junk that Porsche quickly got rid of. IMHO the guys who sold my friend those parts should have been paying him to cart those parts off to the dump based on their technical merit, but obviously somebody sees value in them because they are original parts.
I think the crazy ones are the ones who aren't driving old 911s!
I have a friend who bought a '75 (IIRC) 911 to restore back around 2000. The project has sat (garaged) stalled since then and it's probably quadrupled in value.
He still wins, in my book.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: . A Hemi 'Cuda is a classic example of a ordinary POS from the 60s but damn if there aren't idiots paying half a million for them. Atleast a 911 needs to be an RSR with racing history to fetch anywhere near that nut.
Hemi 'Cudas are not ordinary POSes. Production numbers were never high, especially the 'Cudas which only got the Hemi at the tail end of the musclecar ere when high insurance rates were keeping people from buying them. "It 's HOW MUCH? Ehh... I'll just get a 340." Plus the Hemis didn't have warranties.
When you have numbers like 18 made that year, 11 4-speed and 7 automatic, and they are broken down by color (and there's a one-of-one pink Hemi 'Cuda out there, IIRC the world's most valuable)... numbers make more sense now?
Anything "Hemi" between '64 and '71 is silly-valuable because of the rarity, the mystique, and the documentation. They're not mass-production vehicles.
In reply to Knurled:
So it is a really rare ordinary POS.
I have an original 356 Speedster horn button, which I stuck in my pocket at a junkyard 30 or so years ago.
Nearly 4 minutes of exhaustive research indicates that it is a true original made by VDM, not a repop.
Based upon this thread, I am adjusting my retirement expectations upwards.
*shop rag not included
Knurled wrote: When you have numbers like 18 made that year, 11 4-speed and 7 automatic, and they are broken down by color (and there's a one-of-one pink Hemi 'Cuda out there, IIRC the world's most valuable)... numbers make more sense now?
Meh--a lot of that is Barrett-Jackson-style "forced rarity".
Leave it at--there were 18 made that year. When they get down to "only two in this color", "only one with a donut spare", it's a case of trying to make something more exclusive.
Empirically, a Hemi car is exclusive. That said, when they were first sold, was it more of a case that no one was buying them and that's why so few were made???
TR8owner wrote: ...The 356 was basically a half step up from a Karman Ghia if you analyze it honestly. The early 911's were similiar but with a couple of extra cylinders thrown in...
I once commented to the owner of a 356 at a car show that it was very similar to my Ghia, mostly just a bit wider...
...he did not take that very well...
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