Since you are not a qualified buyer for this car, your post is not valid. Using your thinking a home would sell in its first week on the market for full price, or the price would have to be reduced to sell. Plenty sell in the first 30 to 90 days for full price. There is a thing called marketing. That means the value of any given product needs XYZ amount of marketing and length of time on the market to sell for it's fair market price. Buyers for any given product come in and out of the market on a regular basis. How can anyone say when a qualified buyer will buy? Answer, it is not possible to say. The more market time and advertising, the more people find out about the product. In this case this product is one of one. This leaves the owner free to dictate a price they will sell at. If the owner does not have the motivation to quickly sell the product, they will dictate when they will sell the product. Eddies car went to over $200,000. If he had pulled the reserve at $200,000 it may have gone much higher, or sold at the stall price. We will not be making the same mistake. Now maybe you can understand why I'm going to be with the car all week talking to buyers before the auction and get to drive it across the block. Positive thinking, marketing skills, knowledge of the product.
I don't mean to be harsh but it is my job to be positive and promote this car. I'm not saying it will meet the reserve, at this auction but 95% of the people I have talked to, who watch these cars think it will. Since the above poster does not know the reserve price I am a bit unhappy with his post. If you are a bidder that thinks it is $250,000 then you could own this car by mistake. I was good friends with Wayne Jeffers, his fight with Cancer was long and hard. He loved this car and schooled me on it mostly because I love the FE engines and the Maverick / Comets. I am dedicated to helping his heir getting the best price fair market price for it. I am Realestate Agent who loves Fords and only became involved with this Maverick because I found a NOS cammer here in Il., for Wayne. That lead to a weeklong visit in Florida with 6 cammer powered cars, 3 Shelblys, a GT40, 2 R code Fairlanes and a few others I have missed. Positive actions and thinking are part of my training. Maybe it's to personal with this car but I'm in it til she finds a new home. We would not have even listed it with this auction at this time if the car was not right there in Orlando. I wanted to promote it for a few months and then take it to mecum in Indy, if not sold by the spring. The above poster may have a differant opinon if it was his job to sell this car. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Hastyb1, I'd like to hear more about the "NOS Cammer" you found in Il. As for the car, if I had that kind of pocket change I'd be on my way to Florida with a bidders number! The car is a one-of-one and anyone who has been in drag racing for over 40 years truly understands the importance of this milestone car along with Fast Eddie's. Just talking about the motor that is in the car I would put a minimum price of $50k and maybe more. The auctions have been up and down the past year but I certainly do see this car reaching the reserve and maybe a little more. I am very familar with the early FE's having raced a 63-1/2 Galaxie 427 in the mid 70's and 428 CobraJet Mustang in the early 80's. I will be watching the auction and truly hope it finds a good home, not someplace where it will just collect dust.....................it really needs to be on the strip where it was born to run...............IMHO
You will love this. I'm showing a house to a couple and I get this call from an ad I had running looking for FE engines. The guy tells me he has a NOS SOHC motor he wants to sell. I politely tell him I an busy with a client and will return his call shortly. I could not get them out of that house soon enough! I call him back and it turns out he only lives about 25 miles away. I get to his shop and it turns out he builds some very nice street rods. He bought it to put it in one of his creations, but realizing that the thing has 625 horsepower stock thinks twice and never puts it in. Now the price is $25,000 at that time and I'm going to have to use all my credit line to buy it and flip it. I had also just purchased a Cougar GT-E so I am spreading it thin. I'm fishing for a value on the FE forum for the cammer and I get a email about it from a member. It's Wayne Jeffers. I don't know this man at all and he just knows me from the forum. He tells me what to look for to insure it is a real NOS cammer and we cut a deal. He overnights me $27,000 to by it. The extra $2000 is mine to buy it and hold it until he comes to get it. Well I go back and check the things he tells me too and I dicker a bit and buy it for $23,500. As part of our agreement I send him 1/2 of the $1500 back. Now I get to show this engine off to all my ford buddies for 4 months before Wayne comes to pick it up. That was tons of fun as most of my Ford friends have never heard of this engine and the ones that have never saw one. The next part of the story is Wayne shows up 4 months later with a motor home, enclosed trailer and a new car inside the trailer. We load up the cammer and go out to dinner before he leaves. On the way back the trailer has an axle problem and he needs to lighten the load so leaves the car on the side of the road and goes on home. I'm talking to him on the phone and I just cannot believe he left the new car on the side of the road. He says well I was not going to leave the SOHC the side of the road! Then I get the whole story after he is done having fun with me. He rents the car, drives it to Ohio I believe it was, buys the motor home and trailer and comes on to my place. Since the car is a rental he just calls the company to come and get it. For the next few years the cammer becomes a showpiece and is trotted out at his Gator Barbecues,. I believe it is the same one the sold at Mecum in Indy last spring.
That is fantastic story................it is funny how things out sometimes, and the memories are priceless. Not to turn this into a story telling session, but some 41 years ago I was racing a SS/IA Camaro (I wasn't into Fords yet....but that was to change) and I was looking to change cars. Looking through the classifieds Friday night I saw a 63 Ford Galaxie/427 w/4spd for $1000. I called the guy and he told me he bought the car some years ago and it had been sitting under a pole barn not more than 10 miles from I lived. He said that a couple of months ago someone had stolen the 4spd out of the car and just wanted to sell it. I went out that evening with a flash light...........looked at the car and since I didn't know much about Fords I found a couple of things kind of strange. It had really funny bucket seats and when you sat in them your but almost hit the floor, it had no heater or radio and the front bumpers looked like they were fiberglass along with the hood. The trans was gone and the code was Q which at the time I had no idea what that meant. The tires and wheels didn't match and it still had the factory cast iron headers. The body was perfect and the paint and interior was really nice but dirty. I asked the guy if the motor turned over and ofcourse he said yes. So we dickered back and forth and I told him I'd give him $500 cash the next day. I gave him $20 to hold the car and he wrote me a receipt. To make a long story short the 427 had a cracked block (had been left outside with water in the block and if froze and kicked the back of the block out by the cam bearing area) but it was a fairly rare Q code Ford factory Lightweight. I replaced the 427 with a 68 block........cheated a little with LeMans rods.......but raced it in A/S for awhile until a guy traded me straight across for a 68-1/2 Mustang CobraJet............................Wish I had the Galaxie now!
I remember seeing a NOS SOHC motor in it's crate, sometime in the early 90's at the Columbus Ohio Ford Super Swap. I have a picture of it somewhere....
Probably not any Q code lightweights. I started a thread at the FE forum to ask the experts. By the Way if you are not familar with the name Bill Holbrook, he was with the Ford racing division in the 60s. He is also the scamp with the short lived Beep Beep your Ass stickers with the Coyote holding the Road Runner up by the neck. Seems Ford got a call from Warner Bros about them after someone put some on a Chrysler exts rental car at tallegaga in 69 LOL. please see thread linky thingy. There is nothing like being beaten senceless with information. http://www.network54.com/Forum/74182/thread/1326384519/1963+Galaxie+Q+code+factory+Lightweight
Could not find Don's times (maybe someone else will), but the Pro-Stock record was held by Butch Leal at 9:57 E.T., 144MPH. Don won the 1971 Summer Nats with the Maverick and a lot of match races with the car. His big advantage was his reaction times. He was tough on the starting line.
Wayne’s story was in 2007 at Atlanta, with a fresh Earl Wade engine, modern slicks and carbs he ran a 9.40. Shortly after Don met up with Wayne and the car at a show. Don remarked that it was almost as fast as when he ran it. LOL. Now Wayne was an old drag racer, but without the modern slicks and carbs I'm thinking he would have been off more that a few tens. Anyhow Don signed the car, he was really pleased with its condition. Wayne was more than pleased with the time and he retired it. I bet it was a bit scary running that fast with a car that the only updates were a brake valve and newer cage. Wayne then started on a 66 tube chassis Mustang with of coarse a SOHC. We finished that car the night before we loaded up to go to Sol's Old Drag Racers Reunion. We took the Maverick with us, it was on top and in the front of the trailer. I was able to examine the underside of the Maverick and took my time about it. I was amazed at how stock and original it still was. The track grim,dings, dents, and scrapes from wheelies. I was thinking a 9.40 with this, I bet that took balls. I was betting that’s why it was retired, lol. The Reunion is when I discovered my new friend was a very well known and respected man in his own circles. The next day there was a related car show down at a local harbor. It was in Panama City Florida. We showed the new Mustang off but Wayne would not bring the Maverick out of the trailer because of the salt air. He said the sheet metal had been thinned out enough as it was. lol. A bit of back-story with Wayne, he quit racing at 30 and began a well drilling business. In his late 40s he had a bout with cancer and survived. With the business already running smoothly and making good $$ without him he set out to enjoy life. Bought a new home and the Maverick in 2004. Three years ago the cancer came back and he left us just over 1 year ago this month. The Maverick posed a small problem in settling the estate.
Didn't have any paperwork with the 427 Galaxie except the A/S painted on the windows. I do know that most all R code Galaxies raced in SS not Stock. All of the bumpers, front fenders and hood were glass and didn't look like it had been repainted. Ford did some strange things throughout the years, kind of like the first 12 Tunderbolts did not come in White, they were a Maroon color. I know that most of the factory Ford lightweights came with aluminum bumpers in the 64 and up, but the 63 weighed in at 3325lbs which is about what my 70 B/SM Maverick weighs with me in it. The Galaxie didn't have any carpet or floor mats and looked like they had never been installed...............but it was neat car although never very competetive it was always consistant in the high 11's. During the time I raced the car it was just fun to run and sure got a lot attention at the strips it raced at because seeing an old Ford was somewhat unusual. As for being scary in the Dyno Don car doing 9.4's..........last year my 70 Maverick did a 9.801and the chassis is exactly the same as it was when it raced at the Winternationals in Pomona in 1979..................the only scary part for me was trying to stop..........as it has drum brakes on all four corners. The car was very stable and straight as a dime at 133. I would love to drive it down the strip just once....................I'll bet it would be a lot fun. Here is a picture of my Maverick at the Fremont Drag strip in 1979. http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=78473&page=3
