History Made Now : Wheels of Fortune

• said_aouita

  

  It's on right now. History Channel (Direct TV)
  
  http://www.omaha.com/article/20130928/NEWS/130928682/1707
  
  " He rarely resold trade-ins, and he declined to sell newer cars if a brand new model was available.
  
  When he closed the dealership in 1996, he had hundreds of cars and pickups sitting scattered across town and countryside. Auction promoters described the collection as a time capsule of automotive history. It also was a boneyard."
  
  Old guys walking through the field talking about remembering when "mom and dad traded in the '57 way back when" and pointing at it sitting there. They interview some older farmer who glances over at two of his old pick ups he traded in like 30 years ago.
  
  
  
  
  start of bidding, the crowd flocks around the highest-profile vehicle at the Lambrecht Chevrolet auto auction, a turquoise 1958 Chevrolet Cameo pickup truck with 1.3 miles on the odometer. The pickup was one of nearly 500 vintage vehicles, many never owned before, that longtime Chevy dealer Ray Lambrecht had collected in a field near his home.
  *The truck sold for $140,000.
  
  
  http://www.superchevy.com/hotnews/1309_lambrecht_auction_televised_on_history_channel/
  Not sure when this will be re-aired on tv but pretty interesting history.
• said_aouita

  

  
• GoChiefs

  

  That '69 Chevelle SS with matching numbers is heart breaking.
• said_aouita

  

  GoChiefs;1509324 wrote:That '69 Chevelle SS with match numbers is heart breaking.

  Here is the USA Today article on the auction.

  Owner of the Lambrecht Chevrolet held on to new cars and trucks that didn't sell right away and stashed them in warehouses, at his farm and elsewhere in his small town.
  

  
  http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/08/21/chevy-chevrolet-auction-nebraska-corvair-silverado-cameo/2682061/
  
  
  
  
  Vega with like 11 original miles went for over $10k. Never originally sold at the dealership. Kept in a barn until now......lol.
  
  
• GoChiefs

  

  I had to turn it off after seeing that SS.
• said_aouita

  

  Here is the USA Today article on the auction.

  [h=2]Owner of the Lambrecht Chevrolet held on to new cars and trucks that didn't sell right away and stashed them in warehouses, at his farm and elsewhere in his small town.

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  http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/08/21/chevy-chevrolet-auction-nebraska-corvair-silverado-cameo/2682061/
• said_aouita