Lambrecht Car Auction

[Warstud]

Anyone hear about this? Anyway a guy named Ray P. Lambrecht, now 95 years old, who with his wife Mildred and a single mechanic ran Lambrecht Chevrolet, a small rural dealership in Pierce, Nebraska from 1946 to 1996. The collection includes a startling number of new old stock cars, time-capsules that were never sold or registered as well as trade ins that Lambrecht and his Mildred decided to keep.

 

[cmorr]

Amazing, shame they weren't better protected. Sad to see a car with only 11 miles end up like that but certainly they will be brought back to life by someone

Here is the CBS story

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57605140/hundreds-of-classic-chevys-being-auctioned-off-in-neb/

 

[KB2008X]

Yeah, that story has been circulating for a few months now. Quite the find for the Chevy guys !

It's a shame that all those cars have been slowly rotting away for all these years, but I guess most wouldn't exist in any condition if they had been sold and driven.

 

[Lead Shoes]

If she says 1 mile anymore I'm going to go crazy

If someone washed and waxed them all once a year they would be in immaculate condition on the exterior also...

 

[Warstud]

For those who are interested in watching the auction. It's being televised on the History Channel right now and it started at 8PM EST.

 

[Artem]

Originally Posted By: Brenden
If she says 1 mile anymore I'm going to go crazy

If someone washed and waxed them all once a year they would be in immaculate condition on the exterior also...



"One Mile"...

She's so annoying, I turned it off.

 

[Lead Shoes]

Watching it atm, the banter is lame lets see some Barret Jackson style auction block stuff

 

[volk06]

I attended the auction today. It was amazing. Ill post some pictures tomorrow.

 

[morepwr]

The prices some of that stuff sold for was just mind blowing. Sure a 58 Cameo pickup is cool but it needs a total restoration and doesnt really matter that it has 1.3 miles on it. It sold for $140K and even a perfectly restored one will only get half that. But if you got the extra money to burn just so you can say its a "new" truck, more power to you!

 

[Jakegday]

I went to this auction on saturday. Talked to the guy who bought the 2nd most expensive vehicle, a 63 Impala with 11 miles, for $97,500. Also watched a couple from new zealand get in a bit of an argument with the head auctioneer over them bidding $20,000 (and winning) the wrong car. Best "car show" ive ever been to!