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John Davidson owned two 69 Trans Am's - A RA III & a RA IV. Did his ownership add value to them - no. Had Steve McQueen owned them - sure.

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It's a Seinfeld reference, I doubt he's serious.

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The 4Runner outpaces the pickup and decent examples of the 1st gens (with the removable top) tend to get high teens to upper 20's on BAT. For Nissan it's the same with the 1st gen's 86-95 Pathfinders getting about half as much as a comparable 4Runner. The unicorns being the 86-90 2 door models that will command a premium.

PurelyPMD · ‎12-04-2022

The Pathfinder should yield it's name for the disappointment it has become. Nobody but Ford has cared to follow what Jeep has done with the Wrangler - build a solid off road body on frame 4x4 and they will come. Nissan could have built a contender, but chose not to.

PurelyPMD · ‎09-04-2022

Decaying infrastructure, warehouses, manufacturing plants are ubiquitous with Detroit. Potential is a cheap promise in that city.

PurelyPMD · ‎01-04-2022

I got to Stewart Airport before I realized it was bull**bleep**. Mark needs to switch to decaf too, no more double cappuccinos for you!

PurelyPMD · ‎29-03-2022

It was more of a problem with accountants than engineers. GM (and most of Detroit) got caught up in the stock market rush and started building cars that focused on units & pennies rather than engineering and design. They were more focused on quarterly profits than on quarter miles and it showed. The difference between the 60's & the 70's in design & performance should tell you everything you need to know about who should be designing & building cars.

PurelyPMD · ‎29-03-2022

Wasn't the Probe built by Mazda and sister to the MX6? I'm not sure I would credit Ford with that vehicle at all other than designing some emblems for it.

PurelyPMD · ‎14-03-2022

Although I've gotten a few vanity plates with cars I've had over the years, I've only registered one - and only because I felt it deserved the respect. 1LE.Z28 Photo taken at Hagerty Track Day, Lime Rock Park, 10/25/18

PurelyPMD · ‎07-03-2022

I have a vintage original set on my 69 TA, purists will balk, but I like them.

PurelyPMD · ‎24-02-2022

Saw this car out at the MCACN show in 2016. Was over waiting for my friend Rick's 69 TA convertible unveiling and talking with a friend about the Cuda when the gentleman next to us joins the conversation - it was Tim. The man has a great passion for cars.

PurelyPMD · ‎21-02-2022

Thank you Douglas for your poignant view of a world most of us have not had to see. I am sorry this would be necessary but am happy that you were cleaver enough to make it happen. Some day, hopefully soon, we will live in a world that is not like this.

PurelyPMD · ‎10-02-2022

Having owned now 7 of the early WD21 Pathfinders, all of them sporting the Lego (as they are called) SE wheels, I love the look of the new trucks. Hopefully they follow through on the builds.

PurelyPMD · ‎06-02-2022

The average guy can own these cars if he's been buying, fixing, trading and selling them for 30+ years. Of the 4 cars that sit in my garage today I likely could only buy one of them after putting both of my kids through college and paying off my mortgage. Since I've been doing it so long, always working, always improving them, always trading up, I can have them. Nothing comes easy, it takes work, more so for the average guy but can be done.

PurelyPMD · ‎30-01-2022

We will sadly lament the days when mechanical beings ruled the road. The Maverick is yet another death knell.

PurelyPMD · ‎18-01-2022

I race in both the F.A.S.T. and Pure Stock classes and to a man each of these guys is a class act! Are they competitive, sure, do they have their tricks, absolutely, but if you need a tool, some transmission fluid or left your cooler at home, you don't even have to ask. The ZL1 isn't the only car running 9's there are several that have done it, each guy smarter and more talented than the next. My 71 GT37 is built to Pure Stock rules so I'm stuck in the low 13's. I can't run with the big dogs, but it's still a great time - and the only place you'll see cars that could win just about any show racing!

PurelyPMD · ‎16-01-2022

Or the LOL!

PurelyPMD · ‎12-01-2022

The key term was "cars like these" as a generality and not necessarily these cars in particular. RPO codes, rarity, dollars & sense (not cents) aside, driving old cars is part of the experience for me. I'm lucky to have a few cars that other people would be scared to put on the road, but they're worthless to me if I can't drive them.

PurelyPMD · ‎12-01-2022

Are you referring to a pistol grip shifter? Never heard it called a gun handle, not saying it couldn't happen.

PurelyPMD · ‎12-01-2022

That is so not true. Do your research.

PurelyPMD · ‎12-01-2022

Some of the responses here are priceless. I think some of you have lost (or never had) the felling you get when you come home after a hard days work, strap yourself into a car like these and hit the roads. Sure they've gotten expensive, have you bought a steak lately? But the emotions they stir and the feeling you would get from driving or just being around them is worth it. We will loathe the day when the roads are clear of these mechanical beings.

PurelyPMD · ‎11-01-2022

The real key here is the bench seat is lighter than the buckets, console and associated hardware. Guys who ordered their cars to go racing knew that every pound counted. I have a 455HO 71 GT-37 with a bench seat and column shift automatic. Pontiac's version of the Heavy Chevy was built to do one thing, go fast in a straight line.

PurelyPMD · ‎10-01-2022

Hopefully Hagerty will write a follow-up to this article with the sales values so we won't have to sift through the auction data to find out.

PurelyPMD · ‎09-01-2022

"The body was then painted in fold flake paint" Did you mean GOLD flake?

PurelyPMD · ‎07-01-2022

Horrible color combination and the ugly stepsister to the 71 model. That said it will do well.

PurelyPMD · ‎06-01-2022

Having owned a 2014 Tundra for 7 years and an 07 Tacoma for the 7 years prior I'm a fan of the brand. That said, this truck is homely and uninspiring with none of the aggressive intent of either of those or the 4Runner. Time for a re-do.

PurelyPMD · ‎06-01-2022

I wanted to hate this but don't. I won't be running out to get one, but like the direction they're going.

PurelyPMD · ‎27-12-2021

A blue 70 would have been better...

PurelyPMD · ‎21-12-2021

I don't fault anyone for making money & enjoying it but they are traded like pieces of art (which they are) but not as they were originally intended. Let them stick to Degas, Gauguin & Cezanne and leave the driving experience to the rest of us.

PurelyPMD · ‎13-12-2021

69 Trans Am - air filter is in the hood, screen over the carb.

PurelyPMD · ‎07-11-2021

Have owned 5 1995 and older Nissan Pathfinders over the last 3 years, made money on every single one of them. Still looking for that perfect 2 door though...

PurelyPMD · ‎05-11-2021

You don't own a Rover - you have a relationship with one. Our P38 was luxurious and spoiled us but would leave us stranded on the side of the road without notice. I knew her intimately, replaced the ride controls, air bags, heater core, radiator and countless other bits but in the end she proved too expensive and unreliable to continue with. We loved her, but eventually had to say goodbye.

PurelyPMD · ‎26-09-2021

10-15 years after production is when/where you determine if a car/truck has a following strong enough to pick up for a collectable and usually where the value is at it's bottom. Buying a relatively new car and storing it for that time waiting for it to appreciate again is poor financial sense.

PurelyPMD · ‎21-09-2021

This is a great journey you are taking - enjoy the drive as much as the trip.

PurelyPMD · ‎15-07-2021

So the story goes that trouble really started when Wangers put "Thank You Woodward" on a billboard on the northern end of Woodward with the Pontiac logo on it. That's when the $hit really hit the fan.

PurelyPMD · ‎05-07-2021

Every car has a story, you just need to find who knows it! Great update, thanks!

PurelyPMD · ‎25-06-2021

The list of errors in this article is inexcusable - it's the same internet nonsense that's been regurgitated for decades. I would have expected more research be done rather than repeating the same nonsense once again. Rotors were actually derived from the C10 program, calipers were not taken from the Corvette but are actually their own castings and LARGER than the Corvette's, driveshaft did not come from the Corvette, the MK6 T5 was not new but had been used in the L69 cars for years, there weren't 6 built in 1988, but only 4 of the IROCs and there were 3 TA's, power windows & power locks were MANDATORY options for the R7U 1LE cars ordered for the Canadian Players series due to the inability to work them around the cage. Do better next time - you're supposed to be professionals.

PurelyPMD · ‎25-06-2021

Two of them are in Oklahoma.

PurelyPMD · ‎06-06-2021

I laugh at those who call this "Clean Energy" - electricity comes from a power plant unless you are producing it from solar panels in your own yard. Even then have you seen what it takes to get Lithium out of the ground? Nickel? To process them into batteries, then dispose of them afterwards? Lets assume for a moment the country goes electric - most urban & rural grids will need to be upgraded, copper, rubber and plastics for new power lines, chromated copper arsenate for pressure treated poles, trees removed from around the new or upgraded lines, the environmental costs of these items alone will negated any environmental gain we may seek to achieve. The idea we would be spending billions on these cars and the support services for them as some sort of infrastructure plan is maddening.

PurelyPMD · ‎10-04-2021

My hope is that it does not get taken away by jet setters and turned into a private club. Being a man of more modest means and having the opportunity to race there several times, I would still like to be able to go there, and not just from a spectators standpoint.

PurelyPMD · ‎31-03-2021

Beautiful car but somewhat sad story - loved & held on to a car he was afraid to drive because of it's value. I've been that way with a few of mine, too much time, money & effort invested in them and they become too nice to keep so we pass them on. With the advent of electric and self driving cars we will surely lament the age of these mechanical beings and yearn for it still.

PurelyPMD · ‎13-02-2021

Unfortunately the ones produced by Don at DCI are a derivative with a true split port and are more of an evolution of the original. Unfortunately in many cases his do not allow the owner to use their stock hood. The ones developed by Lynn at McCarty Racing are closer to reproductions of the originals in both looks and functionality and WILL fit under a stock hood and do interchange with the original parts.

PurelyPMD · ‎13-02-2021

As the former owner of a RA V top end and as the soon to be owner of a complete running motor, these are not worth as much as he is asking. Although Lance has managed to amass quite the collection of parts over the years, he has amassed an equally large narcissism that needs to be fed.

PurelyPMD · ‎16-12-2020

It's an outlier, an anomaly, price is based solely on it's mileage. You folks seem to hop on the bandwagon whenever something like this happens but things go marching on. It wasn't too long ago where you signaled the end of the 3rd Gen price gains when my old 91 1LE Formula sold for only $9,000 at BJ Las Vegas but like this, there was a story there too, just not the one you knew. As usual, good cars get good prices and CRAZY low mile ones get CRAZY prices. Nothing new here, move along, nothing to see.

PurelyPMD · ‎14-12-2020

John, I've owned 5 WD21 Nissan Pathfinders and one D21 extra cab pickup in the last year and what you say is absolutely true - the same generation Toyota products are crazy high. That said, I had two of the Pathys when new and went searching for them again - bought every good one I found. Down to three WD21's currently, on my way to 1.

PurelyPMD · ‎29-11-2020

The one that got away? I've been lucky enough to own some of the greatest muscle cars ever produced by Pontiac - RA I, II, III, IV & 455HO GTO's, Judges, LeMans, Trans Am's & Formulas - both hard tops & convertibles. But the one that got away, and the only car I am currently looking to replace is my 69 Trans Am. After looking and missing out on one for years, I found this one & bought it in 2006 with the agreement that if I ever sold it, the seller would get 1st chance to buy it back. John was a great owner, a mechanic who had cared for the car meticulously and a single father trying to buy a house for himself & his daughter. After buying the car in May & enjoying for the summer I got a call in the fall - John had inherited some money and desperately wanted it back...so I sold it to him. Currently looking for it's replacement.