Didn't meet reserve at $3,104.
That is a hard car for me to resist. I'm not sure of the value on these cars but I wouldn't feel bad at 5-6k.
I bought a '69 Firebird convertible project from a member here a couple months ago.
The first night I had my first car in the street in 1978 I got pulled over for street racing(stop light drags) my friend in his dad's BBB Javelin(I may have told the story before and said AMX, but their AMX was in gray primer. The Javelin was in BBB paint).
By that time I had moved to Decatur(Decatur High), he was still in the Shamrock High district and ran across each other cruising in Tucker(Tucker High).
I hadn't seen him in a few years and never saw him again. We didn't even speak that night. Just pulled up next to each other at a light and it was on.
He easily pulled away and I got caught by a train and then DeKalb PD. No tickets but he pulled my drunk buddy out of the car for running his mouth(the cops actually said "Outa the car, mouth."). I must have said "Shut up Dixon!" ten times before the cop stormed around to the passenger side of the car.
The cop told me to get some better mufflers and gave me a pass.
Dixon was my best friend. He had a '70 RAIII Trans Am. I told him I wanted a Formula(T/A) steering wheel for my Firebird and I would get his when he totaled the T/A since I couldn't find one in a junk yard. They were either bent or already gone.
Sure enough, he got drunk and totaled the T/A. Since he owed me $400 he gave me the T/A and we called it even.
It needed a right front fender and a right front suspension. Since this was 1980, I pulled the steering wheel and RAIII 400 and put them in my Firebird, parted the T/A out and got like $30 for the rest of it from a wrecker driver. The "rest of it" was almost the entire car.
My boy Dixon went on to total a Skylark, Celica, Toyota truck and probably 1 or two others that are lost to time. He went through rehab several times and finally made it out the other side clean. He's a great guy but doesn't have much memory of the stories I tell him from our wild past.
Sorry for the long boring story, but I guess that's why I like the cars I like. They're a time machine to go back 40 years for me.
Thanks for posting up the link Scuncio!
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