953 nut 63,615 #1 Posted 6 hours ago January 18, 2009, marks the final day of a week-long auction in which auto giant General Motors (GM) sells off historic cars from its Heritage Collection. GM sold around 200 vehicles at the Scottsdale, Arizona, auction, including a 1996 Buick Blackhawk concept car for $522,500, a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 COPO Coupe for $319,000 and a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette convertible for $220,000. Other items included a 1998 Cadillac Brougham, which was built for the pope. (That vehicle was blessed by the pope but never used because of safety issues; it sold for more than $57,000.) Most were preproduction, development, concept or prototype cars. The vehicles came from GM’s Heritage Center, an 81,000 square foot facility in Sterling, Michigan, that houses hundreds of cars and trucks from GM’s past, along with documents chronicling the company’s history and other artifacts and “automobilia.” 1 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 76,619 #2 Posted 5 hours ago 4 minutes ago, 953 nut said: 1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 COPO Coupe for $319,000 And in 2020 - one of those sold through Barrett Jackson for over a million! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 63,615 #3 Posted 5 hours ago TV coverage of Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale begins Tuesday. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 53,899 #4 Posted 5 hours ago 23 minutes ago, 953 nut said: TV coverage of Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale begins Tuesday. Always nice to see how the rich people live. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 8,504 #5 Posted 1 hour ago I got to take a ride in the Buick Blackhawk when it was new and being toured about. I was at the GS Nationals held at Beech Bend Motorsports Park with a couple of friends. One of them was an engineer for Buick that was involved with the GS program pretty much since it started in the early 60's. He knew the guy who was responsible for driving the truck carrying the Blackhawk from show to show and taking care of the Blackhawk while it was being shown. We happened to be talking to him just before the Blackhawk was scheduled to be paraded down the drag strip. The call came, he said hop in, let's go. So we did. As we were pulling into the staging lanes, we tried to convince him that he should do a burnout at the starting line. He said "nope, I can't. Not my car, and I like this job too much." Only did a 1/4 mile cruise, not a hard run. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
