How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

[FritsB]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

$660k

Congratulations to ....

02LeeBird, bwlewis, federico, FritsB, Hannah3, Ol'Dave



Going to Check With the Powers That Be & See What We can Pull out of the Goodie Bag for You Folks ...

Sale Price $660k Including $60k Buyer Premium

I win...I win... I win...
So, how are you going to ship the car to me Joe? And how do we share this prize...Time Sharing????

[Bond #578]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Ron Pratt bought the #1 TBird. He also bought the 24 Jeff Gordon race car for $500,000. He is a private collector. I guess we will never see again the #1 TBird since Pratt collection is not open to the public.
Anyone familar with him, is he the same Pratt who owns Pratt/ Whitney aircraft engines?

[ChromeDome]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Ron Pratt bought the #1 TBird. He also bought the 24 Jeff Gordon race car for $500,000. He is a private collector. I guess we will never see again the #1 TBird since Pratt collection is not open to the public.
Anyone familar with him, is he the same Pratt who owns Pratt/ Whitney aircraft engines?

Ran his name through Google and came up with this.. be sure to read some of the replies to the message.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...0193131AAIjclG

[Bond #578]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Wow. Thanks for article on Pratte. He spent $5 million for the Cobra Supersnake two years ago.
I see that he is a housing developer.

[snowbird]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

My father used to own p5fh100004 thunderbird. We were all just watching the auction and barrett jacksons careful choices of words used to describe the first "production" thunderbird. He found 00004 in 1972. If you just saw the auction, they showed all the documentation which was done pre 1972. Not having known otherwise, you would think that the earliest t-bird just sold. I wonder if the new owner knows of 00004. My father still has the old owners cards and serial number traceings of the 00004 car.

Brendan: I saw your Dad's car a number of years ago at Macungie, Pa. car show, and the documentation from Ford. Also a great write up in "Thunderbird Illustrated". Do you know where the Bird is now ?
MartinB.

[VicRattlehead]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

pratt has bought 3 of the top 5 vehicles sold at bj this year, the ford airplane the bird and faboy's 24 car. on wednesday he got the green 23 olds, a white corvette hes in for a few million dollars again this year. hes also the one that got the first production ZR-1 last year for 1.1mil he has more money then he knows what to do with. if you look hes buddy buddy with rick hendrick

[My Raven]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Congratulations, Folks ...

02LeeBird, bwlewis, federico, FritsB, Hannah3, & Ol'Dave

Please p.m. me your address and I will be sending you each one of the 50th Anniversary key chains!

Congratulations, Again!

[FritsB]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Thanks Joe. You are the best.

[Hannah3]

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What was the total sales figure this year compared to last years?

[02LeeBird]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

That's great Joe. Thank you.....

[bwlewis]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Thanks Joe, once again TBN is full of surprises.

[Leroy]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Hannah3, I don't know what last years sales were, but this year they went over 5 million and the two top sellers were Fords. The no.1 seller was a 1929 Ford 4-AT-E Tri-motor Airplane lot#1307, it sold for $1.210,000.00. Second highest was the 001Tbrd, at $660,000.00. Leroy

[Lonestar]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Do not know the numbers but Greg Jackson said while talking to the guys @ SpeedTV that this auction set several records (speeking of specific vehicel types) but I do not think he said it set an overall sales record.

[federico]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Thanks a million Joe, as Bruce says, TBN is great and full of surprises.

Federico

[Hannah3]

Re: How Much Will #1 1955 Sell For?

Actually, it looks like it was a disaster. They did a total of around $50m which is less than half recent years. It was interesting to see how they only very rarely showed the total sales figures whereby in past years they wouls show this mumber every hour or so.