70 Nova L78 (8000 miles)Toronto Auction April 4th - Page 3

**Charley Lillard** · #21 04-07-2003, 11:34 PM

I'm told the Red Red ZL1 was a No Sale. Maybe it was just bid up to that price .

**Stefano** · #22 04-08-2003, 12:17 AM

My info. says that it did not meet reserve.

whitez · #23 04-08-2003, 12:31 AM

Stefano, Your information was very close, actual bids were $465,000.00 Cdn., $315,930.00 US., and a late phone bid from the UK at $325,000.00 US., unconfirmed. To date no reported sale.

Don,

**Charley Lillard** · #24 04-08-2003, 02:16 AM

So where is Steves Nova site or a Good Nova site with decoding info. I want to get to the bottom of this Nova that I have and have no info on Novas?

JChlupsa · #25 04-08-2003, 02:20 AM

http://www.novaresource.org/

http://www.renc.igs.net/~smcnabb/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

Schonyenko2 · #26 04-08-2003, 02:42 AM

Steve's is a very good nova site. Very friendly folks there. More about the cars, than what their worth. Schonye

**67BelAir427** · #27 04-08-2003, 03:22 AM

Based on my personal experience with this auction company I would say that the prices that these cars were supposed to be bid to is about as reliable as the daily reports from the Iraqi Ministry of Information. Two years ago I consigned one of my cars to this same auction. The auction house had a virtually identical car to mine (owned by the auction company) which I was told had a reserve of $40,000.US This was strong money for this particular car so I set a reserve of $30,000. on mine and figured that it would sell easily. When my car went through I was surprised that it was only bid to $27,000. Disappointed but not upset. Not until 45 minutes later when their car went through. I watched in disbelief as their car was bid to $45,000 US in less than 3 minutes and was a NO SALE! What I did not see was a single real bid place from where I stood. A beautiful orchestrated performance by auctioneer, announcer and 2 tag men. I confronted the owner about the magic act and he pleaded ignorance, and was offered a discounted entry fee at his next auction. I guess I was naive in thinking that shill bidding your own car past it's reserve was a criminal act, if not at least unethical. It only cost me a $500 entry fee to learn otherwise.

bbdon · #28 04-08-2003, 04:16 AM

Charley,
Have you seen the magazine article that was done on your 396 Nova in 1988? if not, I could post it.

**Charley Lillard** · #29 04-08-2003, 04:32 AM

No I haven't seen it.

bbdon · #30 04-08-2003, 05:10 AM

Here it is, Cars and Parts, Legends series, Musclecars of the 60s, Volume 1 Number 1.
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You should bring the car to the NNN California Mini Nats at the end of August.