1966 Charger funny car on Ebay today, 1964 426 hemi, some parts, all in bad shape, but made of unobtainium

this might be a score, or a money pit. No idea. I bet his reserve is 100k

For sale 1966 charger funny car, this the first year for the fiberglass flopper body, this body was made by Fiber Glass Limited in Stone Park, Illinois. With what I have researched they have only made 11 bodies in 66. These bodies were originally made with a 1 piece nose, two doors and the body. I don't know the history of this car, all the parts you see in the pictures came with the car. Things I do know about the parts, the block is a 64 426 hemi and the heads are 65 Aloca K-Heads, the block has been machined and ready for assembly, the block has been repaired but has been pressured tested good, the heads looked in very poor condition. I had the heads completely re-freshed with new seats and stainless valves. I have crank, rods, and misc. parts for engine. I have torqueflight, tranz and the rear end is an olds with 488 spool and Mickey Thompson case.  Also I have the frame that came with the car which is included in the auction but would not have been original to the car. 

Any Questions call Randy (626)  297-9230

 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=261131862185#v4-40

Thanks Jay!

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Better hurry to the Micro Car Museum in Madison Georgia, it's getting auctioned off in 4 months

Learned about it at http://www.sportscardigest.com/bruce-weiner-microcar-museum-offered-by-rm-auctions/

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car museums and collections are getting auctioned off as they go out of business

Vehicles from at least a dozen major private and museum collections have come on the market in the past few years. Cars from the Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, and the Pate Museum of Transportation in Cresson, Tex., have turned up in sales run by the Canadian company RM Auctions. In March much of the contents of the Central Texas Museum of Automotive History, in the hamlet of Rosanky, was auctioned.

 On Thursday, Artcurial held a sale of cars from Prince Albert II�s collection, with 1930s roadsters and 1940s Dodge Army trucks, in Monaco. On Saturday in Plymouth, Mich., RM Auctions will hold a sale of 15 cars that the gun-manufacturing magnate William Ruger Jr. kept in a New Hampshire mill, including Rolls-Royce Phantoms from the 1920s and �30s.

 An online auction through Witherell�s closes on Tuesday, with about 60 horse-drawn buggies and wagons that the California winemaker John Traina, who died last year, parked alongside a driveway. On Aug. 16 Bonhams in Carmel, Calif., will offer 30 motorcycles that hung from the ceiling of the San Francisco restaurant Eddie Rickenbacker�s. In Pebble Beach, Calif., Gooding has an Aug. 18 and 19 sale with a dozen cars from the Pettit family�s Museum of Motoring Memories in Natural Bridge, Va.

excerpted from a New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/design/classic-vehicle-auctions-and-a-lucie-rie-biography.html?_r=1  I learned of on the newsletter from the Vintage Racing League http://www.thevrl.com/

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in the early 30's, during the great depression, a fishing tackle sales man was on the road from Florida around the Gulf of Mexico

images and info from http://auctionsamerica.com/events/feature-lots.cfm?SaleCode=AF12&ID=r101

marine products representative J.M. Keely is one of them. A combination of a 1931 Ford Model A Deluxe Coupe and custom-built trailer, the unit served as both a sales platform and on-the-road accommodations as Keely plied his trade along the coastal towns of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.


For sale in the Auctions America by RM August 30-Sept 2nd in Auburn Indiana http://auctionsamerica.com/events/all-lots.cfm?SaleCode=AF12

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