Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 13:34:39 CST 2006
The care value thing is mostly about how many of them there are. I'm guessing the Hemi Cuda you saw was a convertible?? There just were not that many Hemi Cuda's built. And many of the ones that were made were probaby wrecked. How many XKE's were built?? There were 11 Hemi Cuda Convertibles built in 1971 and only 7 of those were sold in the US. Have a look at this article.... http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/26/pf/autos/cuda/ This one had a bit of $4.1Million. It was the last one made http://vintagecars.about.com/od/historygreatmoments/ss/hemicuda_rw.htm http://vintagecars.about.com/od/historygreatmoments/ss/hemicuda_rw_2.htm Yes a V12 Jag would be a cool car. I wouldn't turn down either of them if they were offered. Hard to beat TORQUE. The hemi definately had that. Either would be to valueable to actually drive though. I'll take just a relatively common car so I can actually drive it, GK On 1/22/06, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote: > I seem seriously to have missed the point on what cars are valuable. An > original mint condition Jaguar XKE sold for a mere half million while a > Chrysler Hemicuda sold for 2 million! Unf**king believable. Here you have > perhaps the greatest car ever designed (XKE) vs. another stupid lumbering > behemoth and somehow the behemoth scores four times more than the XKE. How > could this occur. Perhaps the old adage applies: if you want to know what > God thinks of money, look to whom he gave it. > Unbelievable, a HemiCuda worth four times the price of an XKE, both of which > are in mint condition. This is a stupid world. > Mind you, anyone who is there to pay a million or so for a car clearly has > too much money, but that is an aside. But given a choice between 4 Jag XKEs > and one HemiCuda, what would you choose? I like HemiCudas but let us be > realistic about this. How could one possibly fault the design of an XKE and > instead choose a HemiCuda? > I guess this is why I am not affluent. I keep choosing design over HOT. You > get about 1.5 miles per gallon in a Hemi, which is obviously not why you > might have purchased one. But still, why on earth would you buy such an > angry dog? This is not a car! It is a display of somethingm, and I suspect > what that something is, but will venture no further than to reiterate > Fuller`s Fifth law: cubic inch displacement is inversely proportional to > sexual ability. > > Arthur > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com