International on Gunbroker...
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Topic: International on Gunbroker...
Posted By: WVWRZ500N
Subject: International on Gunbroker...
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2008 at 2:47am
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Can't believe no one is talking about the International on gunbroker. WOW. Thinking of selling my cars!
Regards,
Bill Wilson
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Posted By: Auto Mag
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2008 at 3:10am
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Yup, thats Jim V's gun.
Sure is purdy,,,
I have known Jim for quite a while and have nothing but praise for him. He's been an honest and decent guy.
I still remember Col Bob offering that gun to me many many years back,,,
Sure makes you crazy when you think of all the ones that you could have actually had and passed on,,,
GH
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Posted By: curmudgeon
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2008 at 7:40pm
| Whats it listed under ??? I tried collectibles ? |
Posted By: AUTOMAG
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2008 at 8:40pm
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Mr. Jurras, the item number is # 94609951 on Gun Broker!!
------------- "This is the 44 Magnum Auto Mag and holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used it can remove the fingerprints"!!! |
Posted By: Gerry
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2008 at 9:55pm
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Well I could mortgage the house for it if it was worth anything after the local real estate meltdown. A fine example of premier gunsmithing! I saved the pictures to my automag file.
Gerry
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Posted By: AUTOMAG
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2008 at 10:15pm
Gerry, that is one beautiful Auto Mag!!! The picture is the closest that I will ever come to it unless Mark gets it and lets me come down for a visit!!!!!!
------------- "This is the 44 Magnum Auto Mag and holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used it can remove the fingerprints"!!! |
Posted By: jw4570
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 12:04am
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Yes,
what a beautiful piece. Wish it was anywhere near my price range.
A very rare and unique piece that most don't even know exists.
JW
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Posted By: curmudgeon
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 4:13pm
| There are some others out there. If the price keeps going up I venture some more will come up for sale. Remember these sold initially for $ 3250.00 ????? :-) Speaks well for inflation, and some collectors that were too young to begin with. I can remember passing up a 300SL Gullwing for 5 Grand back in the late 50's...Oh well |
Posted By: Ginsaw
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 9:17pm
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Curmudgeon, I can remember in about '75 having to pass on a yellow V12 '68 Ferrari convertible. I can still even remember the exact price, $8,500. And there were XKEs I thought I couldn't go on living another day without. The problem was, in those days I couldn't have made the down payment on a pair of roller skates, let alone a Ferrari or Jag...
There was a place here that sold those kind, lots of neat ones. There were Jags including the big sedans, an Aston Martin (right hand drive), an Austin Healy (the MK 3000?), a Pantera and what I thought was really cool, a little white 4 cyl 190 SL. These had class.
It seems like once you get where you could afford stuff like that, you might not still fit in it.
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Posted By: curmudgeon
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 10:10pm
| Ginsaw...Had a Pantera in '75...Paid 8500, kept and DROVE it for a year, Sold it before I moved to NM the first time. Sold it for 9500....Oh well, it was fun while it lasted...In '76 an AM collector in CN wanted to trade me a '74 Panters('74) for the Mod 200 Bi-Centinneal AM. I turned it down figuring the Bi-Cent was easier to move around. Tho the Pantera was fun to drive and caught the eye. I was not a comfortable car to drive X-country...:-) The last time the Bi-Centennial changed hands it was 45K...FWIW dept |
Posted By: Ginsaw
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 10:36pm
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I never drove a Pantera and don't know much about them. I just understood it was a powerful mid-eng model. Very interesting shape and concept. Haven't seen one in ages. The Jags were my first love in European sports cars. I test drove many. Remember how they took off when you released the clutch? And hit 90 in third? And the famous Jaguar whine? And that old leather spell? I'd recognize it anywhere even today.
People talked me out of buying one. They said it's a great car for someone who likes to walk a lot. That was the 6 cyl version. Later on I test drove a beautiful blue V12 XKE and would have bought it, except when you rounded a corner and hit the gas the engine always folded. The problem supposedly was the polution control stuff of the early 70s. Then they ruined the looks of them with adding all that black rubber bumper material.
I wound up with an MGB which I drove the wheels off.
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Posted By: Gerry
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2008 at 11:44pm
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Nobody won it, so you have time to file for taxes or remortgage the house. I will buy an extra Lotta ticket just in case!
Gerry
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Posted By: curmudgeon
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2008 at 3:08am
| Ginsaw, it was powered by the 351 Cleveland engine.. |
Posted By: Ginsaw
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2008 at 7:30pm
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http://www.dochemp.com/9panter.html -
Curmudgeon, the Pantera was one of those that just looked fast even standing still. Here's a couple web-sites on it you might enjoy. These should bring back some memories (I've never tried to copy site links before into a message, so we'll see if it works) -
http://www.dochemp.com/9panter.html
http://www.panteraplace.com/page35.htm
They say it was a 5.8 litre mill. I take it that was the 351 c.i. - I never quite got used to expressing eng sizes in metric.
Sometimes I think if money were no object and I was looking for another hobby, restoring old muscle cars could be tempting.
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Posted By: AUTOMAG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2008 at 8:09pm
Restoring old muscle cars, a more expensive hobby than collecting Auto Mag items!!!! I can vouch for that having restored a 1969 Camaro Z/28 with the RS package. Every piece that you tear down either needs to be replaced or at least a part in the group!!!! Never should have sold it or my LS6 Chevelle that I had.  Oh well, so much for that!!!
------------- "This is the 44 Magnum Auto Mag and holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used it can remove the fingerprints"!!! |
Posted By: AUTOMAG
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2008 at 8:51pm
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The International is back on Gun Broker with a buy it now of $23,000.00!!!!
------------- "This is the 44 Magnum Auto Mag and holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used it can remove the fingerprints"!!! |
Posted By: curmudgeon
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2008 at 8:23pm
| 23K seems in pace with the rest of the AM stuff. There will always be AM items out there to test ones fancy or resolve, whichever suits the mood. Yes Auto restoration can make AM's pale by comparison...Just watch some of the Auto auctions... :-) |
Posted By: Gerry
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2008 at 9:33pm
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If you guys want to see a parade of Motown steel, come up in August when the have the Woodward Dream Cruise. This event last a long weekend and is very cool.
Gerry
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Posted By: Ginsaw
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 4:02am
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As long as we're on cars, if you guys could have one of anything, what would it be? I mean a fun car, not something practical - like an SUV for hunting etc. I don't see myself driving a real small XKE anymore, but I wouldn't mind a restored '64 GTO. I was serfing the net and found on YouTube that old Ronny & The Daytonas "Little GTO" - "three dueces and a four speed and a 389". After all these years, it still gets the blood pumping...
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Posted By: AUTOMAG
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 3:43pm
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My dream car, a 1969 Yenko Camaro!!!!!!!!
------------- "This is the 44 Magnum Auto Mag and holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used it can remove the fingerprints"!!! |
Posted By: Rick
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2008 at 2:04am
| Noticed a lot of neat Automag stuff on Gun Broker. |