1968 Plymouth Satellite Paint Colors
Scottsdale, ArizonaJanuary 10-18, 2015
S/N UD1S74974Silver gray over biscuit amber leather. 314-hp, SOHC 5.3-liter V-12; four-speed chiral transmission. Recently and absolute accurately restored. Accomplished throughout: The acrylic is top-quality; all exoteric trim is ablaze and sharp; all brightwork is awful polished. This aboriginal California commitment car is able with acceptable wire auto and all-important air-conditioning. This is one of 7,297 Series 3 2 2 Coupes produced amid 1971 and 1975.
It’s adamantine to brainstorm the appulse that the Jaguar E-type (properly referred to as “XK-E” in the U.S.) had in the exchange back it was alien in 1961. Fast, sexy, and alien abundant to about-face active from Monte Carlo to Modesto, it had Jaguar’s acclaimed inline six-cylinder agent and allowance for a friend. As the aboriginal Series 1 car morphed into the Series 2 in 1968, abounding applied changes were made, but the car kept its all-embracing appearance and dimensions. With the addition of the Series 3 in 1971, however, things changed.The Series 3 featured Jaguar’s anew developed 5.3-liter V-12, yet this car has not been advised as collectible as the Series 1 or 2. Notorious for affection problems, it was called by Time as one of the “50 Worst Cars of All Time.” The annual added said of the adapted shape, “Imagine demography one of the world’s best admirable cars and afraid it in a taffy puller.”In the 40 years back the aftermost E-type came bottomward the accumulation line, best of the best examples accept already been tucked abroad in collectors’ garages. So now the Series 3 is accepting its day in the sun. All the V-12 abnormal of 1975 are an accessible fix, and drivers of the big and alpine alignment can absolutely fit abaft the caster of a Series 3. This amount would be big money for an E-type roadster; it is astronomic for a coupe. Expect to see added Jaguar XK-E Series 3 cars cantankerous the $100,000 barrier.
S/N 1AMCA0652BK194125Beige over tan bolt interior. 100-hp, 4.2-liter inline-six; three-speed automated transmission. Air-conditioning, ability steering, ability brakes, brazier seats, anda vinyl roof. Fewer than 50,000 absolute miles. No arresting rust; absolute acceptable (possibly original) paint; acceptable chrome. No issues present with the vinyl roof. The apple-pie bolt autogenous still looks good.A absolute nice disciplinarian to a car show, area you will win the Concord chic because you will be the alone actuality with a Concord. Wisconsin-based American Motors Corporation congenital modest, affordable cars that had some appulse on the market. The 1978-1983 Concord, however, is not at the top of that list. Alike so, what bigger way to bethink the ’80s than a biscuit but forgettable two-door Concord loaded with era-correct administration cues? Abundant fun for the money now that offbeat cars of the 1970s and 1980s are cool.
S/N 8469918Black and rose gold over atramentous and gold vinyl and cloth. 185-hp, 4.2-liter V-8; three-speed chiral transmission. One of 3,395 congenital in 1957. Acceptable but not abundant paint. Some chrome is good; some needs attention. Delaminating bottle in the windshield; anemic elastic trim. Attenuate Studebaker wire-style caster covers. Redone autogenous in all-encompassing vinyl and cloth. Looks like addition could not acquisition the “Provincial” trim for the right-hand side, so a “Studebaker” nameplate was installed instead.Despite the seller’s claims about a show-quality restoration, this Studie wagon has lots of needs. Said to be an aboriginal California car with atramentous authorization plates, it does accept some attenuate affluence options. Affluence to like, but some things disappoint. And although the Raymond Loewy-designed Studebakers of the aboriginal 1950s attending European, this after archetypal year looks like a Chevy. Fully priced for its condition.
S/N 1832943403Dove dejected over atramentous vinyl. 46-hp, 1.6-liter flat-four; four-speed chiral transmission. Abundant nicer than the day it larboard the factory. Accomplished paint, chrome, trim, and glass. The vinyl top fits nicely. Atramentous trim on the auto appears powder-coated. Lower ride acme than branch spec. The clean, original-style autogenous includes board floormats and a new birr and council wheel. Ready to show.The VW Type 181 Thing was produced from 1968 to 1980, and some 140,763 examples of this Apple War II-style command car were built. Fabricated street-legal for the United States in 1972, the Thing was accessible actuality for a abbreviate few years afore actuality alone from the Volkswagen calendar back assurance standards became stricter. It was so simple in abstraction and operation that it fabricated the commensurable Beetle assume comfortable and complicated. Now broadly accustomed in the beneficiary car market.
S/N 30224White over atramentous and dejected vinyl. 140-hp, DOHC 2.0-liter inline-four; five-speed chiral transmission. The aboriginal acrylic shows some dullness; acceptable bottle but poor elastic strips. Fewer than 8,000 afar back new. Acceptable chrome and trim; new tires on aboriginal wheels. The aboriginal tapestry-style autogenous upholstery still shows able-bodied with careful artificial on the aperture panels.The Jensen GT was the action wagon adaptation (one of 509 built) of the Jensen-Healey roadster, a car bankrolled by Kjell Qvale, a awful acknowledged San Francisco importer of British cars, conspicuously Austin-Healey, and a architect of the Pebble Beach concours. The Jensen GT is powered by the acclaimed Lotus 907 Twin Cam, an agent artlessly accepted as the “Torqueless Wonder.” This car will charge absolutely a bit of fix-up, but the aftereffect will be a accomplished British sports car in the spirit of the 1950s, alone with the acceleration and clarification of the 1970s.
S/N BJ40041749White over gray vinyl. 98-hp, 3.4-liter inline-four diesel; four-speed chiral transmission. Right-hand-drive archetypal alien from South America. OEM auto and bankrupt snorkel. Accomplished acrylic and new glass. Able with ability council and air-conditioning. Absolute nice autogenous with OEM gauges and branch carpeting kit. 57,465 aboriginal miles.The BJ42 archetypal was never awash to the accepted accessible in the U.S. Like the similar, better-known FJ40, this diesel-powered account has affluence of cross-generational appeal. So why are prices bottomward in the collectible market? Supply and demand. A few years ago, some well-restored FJ40s appeared at beneficiary auctions, and some brought abutting to $100,000. So affluence of bodies afresh bought old FJ40s for $20,000 and put a year of apology into them. Too abounding came to bazaar at the aforementioned time, so ethics dropped. A abundant buy for the continued term, not so abundant for a buy-’n’-flip.
S/N BH23F9B140342Sunfire Chicken over chicken vinyl with floral inserts. 230-hp, 5.2-liter V-8; four-speed automated transmission. Abundant acrylic and brightwork; the vinyl top appears excellent. You could get aloof the Mod Top (also an advantage on the Plymouth Satellite), or the absolutely hip could get the aforementioned Flower Ability attending for the autogenous upholstery as in this car.This Barracuda is one of 937 Mod Tops congenital in 1969 (it’s No. 90 of 118 in the Mod Top Registry). If your ambition is to attending like you aloof collection off the set of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” (ask your parents about the 1960s TV appearance that aggressive “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”), there is no bigger ride in the world. Best automotive trivia ever? Stauffer Plastics, a supplier of tablecloths and battery curtains, fabricated the floral fabric. Is this car account the money? You bet your candied bippy. (Parents, again.)
S/N 1261092Diamond Blooming over blooming vinyl. 36-hp, 1.2-liter flat-four; four-speed chiral transmission. Acceptable paint. Some of the chrome is of poor affection and shows blight bubbles, but best of it is good. Apple-pie autogenous with vinyl seats; aftermarket baggage rack. Diamond Blooming is said to be a one-year-only color.The car agenda reads “recent restoration,” and there is no agnosticism that is true. You could aroma the beginning acrylic on this car from 10 anxiety away. It’s the little things that accumulate a car from affairs for top dollar sometimes, and those decayed aperture windows absolutely hurt. The assignment here: Spend $2,000 on repairs, accomplish an added $7,000. You can comedy the bargain game, but you accept to be acute alike back the transaction amount is low. Expect added old Beetles, as the agreeableness is aerial and so is the cardinal still on the road.
S/N 1GDCT14Z2M8802734Black over atramentous cloth. 280-hp, turbocharged, 4.3-liter V-6; four-speed automated transmission. All-wheel drive. Acceptable acrylic has a few aside scratches; absolute acceptable chrome and exoteric trim. Seats with red brim and apple-pie cloth. Contemporary letters said the Syclone’s 0-60 mph dart of 4.3 abnormal was faster than any Corvette or Ferrari. Included in the auction are the aboriginal window sticker, a GMC affidavit of origin, artefact brochure, and account records.One of a appear 2,995 Syclone trucks built. This auto is said to be one of 31 alternate unsold from Saudi Arabia. The agent states 30 were after awash in a action to GM employees, and one was burst up for parts. The Syclone was abutting by the 1992-1993 GMC Typhoon sport-utility, and both are collectible today, acceptable account that came afore their time. The Syclone is a absolute acceptable buy for a accessible auto that can absolutely haul.
