Roadsters at the Mecum Monterey Auctions. August 18-20

ted heaton · Post by **ted heaton** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:57 am

Roadsters at the Mecum Monterey Auctions. August 18-20

Thursday August 18.
https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0822-51958 ... -roadster/

Friday. August 19.
https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0822-52041 ... nvertible/

Ted.

rwmann · Post by **rwmann** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:49 am

No estimate on the Thursday car?

Bwk2000 · Post by **Bwk2000** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:35 am

Itâ€™s in the registry. Looks like it was previously up for sale on eBay in 2014 & 2021. Anyone catch the asking price?

rwmann · Post by **rwmann** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 8:38 am

It had an epic send-up on BaT.

Post by **spl310** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 8:51 am

The 70 is owned by Bruce Lanni. He is on Facebook, but I am not sure about here. The discussion on BAT is interesting.

sfdaugherty · Post by **sfdaugherty** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:01 am

Are non-locking gas caps rare????

Post by **spl310** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:24 am

To hear Bruce tell it, yes. I haven't tried to find one, so who knows. Not all of the 70s had them, so there are likely not a lot of them out there.

Bwk2000 · Post by **Bwk2000** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:51 am

I see what you mean. A very enlightening (and revealing) BaT discussion indeed.

Post by **spl310** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:13 pm

The BAT comments are usually entertaining.

datsun1500 · Post by **datsun1500** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 2:19 pm

Bruce has blocked a few of us from his posts on the Roadster FB page because we ask questions when he does stuff wrong. He just argues that "it's the photos" and looks better in real life. From my experience online photos always look better than real life, so I have no idea how he thinks it would be opposite. It seems like a nice car, the main issue is his attitude about it being 100% perfect. The car is actually known as "Ol Lumpy" from a bunch of discussions.

Bwk2000 · Post by **Bwk2000** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 2:23 pm

Any idea who owns the second one (the 1500)?
Now that looks like a nicely restored roadster - Some serious coin went into that.

Mattk · Post by **Mattk** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 3:19 pm

And yet the rear shackles for the leaf springs are wrong. Not hard to fix but shows it was done by a non roadster person!

datsun1500 · Post by **datsun1500** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 3:21 pm

Bwk2000 wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 2:23 pm Any idea who owns the second one (the 1500)?
Now that looks like a nicely restored roadster - Some serious coin went into that.

Most of the build was on the Roadster FB page, beautiful car, very well done.

ted heaton · Post by **ted heaton** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:04 pm

64 1500 is Chris Bennett's.
Restoration by Ron Weldon.
A nice job with a few minor problems that a Mecum buyer will not know or care about.
I have seen it. It presents well except for the unstock forward rake that does not look right. (Front comp springs). Chris had take the auction pictures before we got after him.

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Note the incorrect opening wing windows.
From A 65 1500? Or 66-67.

Ted

Post by **spl310** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:06 pm

The opening wing windows would be a nice improvement in my mind.

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