Build 1964 FJ45 Short Bed Fixed Top Pickup Restoration

[Franken470]

I was checking in today, totally amazed it never climbed after your bid.

Take good care of it but more importantly enjoy it, use it, don’t leave it parked.

Cheers

It will likely get driven to TX for Roundup in March now, like Nolen said with only 30 miles to go, I’ll drive it from his house to mine.

I’ve now got to get my project 40
Out of the garage. We shall see where it goes after Mason, but it will be enjoyed and ogled over.

 

[thatcabledude]

@jomelo is that a vanity plate on the mustard 40 or just a coincidence? Lol

 

[wngrog]

This is me to all of the people that beat me up all week acting like they were going to bid on it

 

[jomelo]

@jomelo is that a vanity plate on the mustard 40 or just a coincidence? Lol

Just a coincidence. I do like the plate.

 

[OGBeno]

I’m happy to be the proud owner and would always offer back first, I really had no intention of spending that money today although I can, I really wanted this truck to go well over 6 figures but here we sit, I get to own an amazing cruiser, a little piece of history and hope for some others to see the beauty in it that not only I do, but those whose passion shows in this build. I’m continually amazed by the cruiser community, and that’s not always a positive thing and today’s sale might even be a low and a high for me.

Congrats Steve-O!!

You better bring it to Crawl. Looking forward to seeing it again.

 

[Franken470]

Congrats Steve-O!!

You better bring it to Crawl. Looking forward to seeing it again.

If your coming back again I’m sure I can figure out a way to get 2 trucks there.

 

[RevISK]

It will likely get driven to TX for Roundup in March now, like Nolen said with only 30 miles to go, I’ll drive it from his house to mine.

I’ve now got to get my project 40
Out of the garage. We shall see where it goes after Mason, but it will be enjoyed and ogled over.

I sure would like to see it.
I’d even offer a place to stay in Austin (vintage 1978 Avion trailer in South Austin).
If nothing else, holler on your way through and we can get a caravan going.

Ian

 

[sogncab]

Auctions are weird. I went to one that was live and online to bid on a piece of equipment for the shop. I was prepared to spend $100k, expected to be outbid, left spending $45k.

I stole that machine at that price.

The pickup certainly went for less than I was expecting.

 

[Franken470]

Auctions are weird. I went to one that was live and online to bid on a piece of equipment for the shop. I was prepared to spend $100k, expected to be outbid, left spending $45k.

I stole that machine at that price.

The pickup certainly went for less than I was expecting.

I was very surprised as a bidder by BAT operations, I’m oddly enough a trained auctioneer also, but not my profession as a trade.

General practice is to meet the “next bid” but go up to a maximum if a bidder places a 10k bid higher than current (when it’s a live and online). It just keep getting auto bid up to the max, but on BAT it instantly jumps the bid to your max, so say it’s at 75 and you go 85, then there is no 76-77 etc. which is good for the seller not fully fiduciary to the buyer.

 

[Franken470]

I sure would like to see it.
I’d even offer a place to stay in Austin (vintage 1978 Avion trailer in South Austin).
If nothing else, holler on your way through and we can get a caravan going.

Ian

Austin isn’t my normal route, and lots of cruiser friends along the way in TX but most of them will be in Mason. I’ll just have to check and see what my travel plans are.

 

[Franken470]

I sure would like to see it.
I’d even offer a place to stay in Austin (vintage 1978 Avion trailer in South Austin).
If nothing else, holler on your way through and we can get a caravan going.

Ian

Austin isn’t my normal route, and lots of cruiser friends along the way in TX but most of them will be in Mason. I’ll just have to check and see what my travel

 

[PAToyota]

Having watched a few BaT auctions of vehicles that had been through their process before, it seems that prices have been down lately. I don't think I saw one that went over the previous selling or maximum bid (unsold) that it got before. Some for significantly lower prices...

Knowing the work that went into this, I was sorry to see that it didn't reach six figures. Totally out of my ballpark, but definitely worth it.

 

[wngrog]

Posted this 4 years ago today on my Instagram page

 

[Franken470]

Outside of driving and maintenance, this will be about the only thing I’ll ever be able to add to this cruiser. Awaiting banks etc. to take delivery.

 

[wngrog]

That’s pimp.

Who knows. You may find some s*** you want to do to it.

 

[sogncab]

I was very surprised as a bidder by BAT operations, I’m oddly enough a trained auctioneer also, but not my profession as a trade.

General practice is to meet the “next bid” but go up to a maximum if a bidder places a 10k bid higher than current (when it’s a live and online). It just keep getting auto bid up to the max, but on BAT it instantly jumps the bid to your max, so say it’s at 75 and you go 85, then there is no 76-77 etc. which is good for the seller not fully fiduciary to the buyer.

I wonder what they have the increments set at. Normally as the current bid increases, so does your minimum increments. $10k increments for something under $500k would be weird.

 

[Franken470]

I wonder what they have the increments set at. Normally as the current bid increases, so does your minimum increments. $10k increments for something under $500k would be weird.

they were set at 1k, on this bid but it you increased by more than 1k, it went ahead and jumped to full amount of bid.

 

[sogncab]

they were set at 1k, on this bid but it you increased by more than 1k, it went ahead and jumped to full amount of bid.

That is dumb. Keeps you involved I guess. Probably drives numbers up too for people that don't know

 

[PAToyota]

It's good for the seller that way.

Not as good for the buyer. They can't just set a maximum bid for themselves and sit back. They have to either keeping upping it in smaller increments or figure it is going to go up at least some number and then bid a bit more than that - i.e.: It will go up at least another $5K, so bid another $6K.

It is sometimes crazy when it goes up $10K, $20K, $50K on something in one shot.

 

[Polecat]

Too soon for this?