500 'new' vintage Chevrolets at Nebraska auction

[CHamilton]

500 'new' vintage Chevrolets at Nebraska auction

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The cars from the Lambrecht Chevrolet Dealership will be sold at auction this weekend.

When Ray Lambrecht, who ran the dealership with his wife Mildred for 50 years, would get in a new model year car he would put any unsold cars from the previous model year into storage along with any used car trade-ins that remained at the dealership for too long. Many were stored outdoors on the farm.

These leftover cars along with dealership memorabilia will be sold at the auction. Many of his 500 cars being offered at the auction have never been titled and have less than 20 miles on them.

 

[The Davy Crockett]

I love all the fins lined up in a row. :wub:

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The picture of all the keys reminds me of a conversation I had with one of my mechanics. I was retrieving my car after he did some work on it and when he was giving me my key back he removed the little paper I.D. tag on a string. I must have made some comment about keeping everyone's keys straight. He then told me he once had a dream where someone had removed all the little ID tags from all the keys of the cars in his shop and he was running around in a panic trying to figure out which keys belonged to which car!

I guess you'd call it a mechanic's nightmare?

 

[Bob Dylan]

The "Batman" Chevys were probably Chevrolets Worst Looking Car Ever! They could'a showed the "Vets! :wub:

 

[CHamilton]

The $142,000 Pickup: Truck With 1.3 Miles Tops Vintage Car Auction
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A car auction unlike any other is going on this weekend in Pierce, Neb., where hundreds of cars that were stockpiled by a Chevrolet dealer are finally being sold — many for the first time. The Lambrecht Chevrolet collection stretches back to the 1950s and has drawn bids and interest from around the world....

The vehicles include trucks, sedans, and sports cars — some of them with only a couple of miles on their odometer. They're a mix of models that never sold and trade-ins that the dealership's owner, Ray Lambrecht, decided not to sell. About 25 were stored indoors; others were left to face the elements in a field near the Lambrecht family's home.

More than ten thousand people have descended on Pierce (pop. 1,700) this weekend, poking around in that field to check out "survivor" cars that are being called a time capsule of U.S. automotive history....

The auction has been tracked by television's Top Gear show and the History Channel. It'salso online. Here are the four vehicles that fetched the highest prices Saturday:

• 1958 Chevrolet Cameo pickup truck with 1.3 miles: $140,000
• 1963 Chevrolet Impala with 11 miles: $97,500
• 1978 Corvette Indy pace car with 4 miles: $80,000
• 1958 Chevrolet Apache 31 Series Pickup (5 miles): $80,000

Almost all of those vehicles come with their original paperwork and a new Nebraska title and bill of sale. The Cameo pickup's transmission is a "three speed on the tree," with its shifter located on the steering column.

 

[PRR 60]

The "Batman" Chevys were probably Chevrolets Worst Looking Car Ever! They could'a showed the "Vets! :wub:

That was the '59 Chevy, and I learned how to drive in one of those tanks.

There was an urban legend that those rear wings could produce aerodynamic lift at high speed. Motor Trend tested it, and found (not surprisingly) it was bunk. Pity. I have to admit that I tried my best to get that thing to fly on several occasions.

 

[The Davy Crockett]

The "Batman" Chevys were probably Chevrolets Worst Looking Car Ever!

A good friend of mine from high school had a '60 Chevy Impala sedan. A true boat. In size, ride, and in the way it drove.

Then, when he got his first 'real job,' he bought a black '59 Cadillac Fleetwood sedan, which he named 'Bubba.' Why a '59 Fleetwood? Because, as he put it: "It's the ugliest car ever made in Amerca!"