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Luvdog trying again

Started by Don Boshara #594, May 06, 2009, 02:27:48 PM

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Don Boshara #594

Looks like Marvin the Luvdog has snared the experts at The Auto Collection at Imperial Palace. From page 12 of the May Self-Starter: “Currently for sale are a few fine examples of our favorite make, including a 1987 Allanté for $12,500 and a 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible with a 1960 body for $145,000. Allegedly a design experiment by Harley Earl, the dash features a television.” GOTCHYA AGAIN!!
1940 Sixty Special
1966 Mustang Cpe

Dan LeBlanc

Bloody heck!  He should just give it up!
Dan LeBlanc
1977 Lincoln Continental Town Car

Rusty Shepherd CLC 6397

Quote from: Don Boshara #594 on May 06, 2009, 02:27:48 PM
Looks like Marvin the Luvdog has snared the experts at The Auto Collection at Imperial Palace.

Don,
Who is "Marvin the Luvdog"?

Brian Daum

Rusty,

He`s a shady used car dealer in Ft. Lauderdale. Runs "Cars of Yesterday" out of a wharehouse. He`s a real BS artist with a lot of stories around his cars. He`s been discussed quite frequently at this forum.

He has a tiny dog that he keeps kissing, hence the LUVDG identity on eBay.
1956 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special
1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille
1998 Cadillac DeVille d`Elegance

Otto Skorzeny

Rusty,

Go to ebay and search for sales with his name LVDOG or LUVDG or whatever and you'll find him.

Do a search on this site for past posts with some combination of those letters and you'll learn a lot. Not just about him but about authenticity of certain Cadillacs in general. You'll also find the story of the 1960 car with the TV. It's a big fat fake cobbled together from whatever was laying around in the garage at the time and represented as a one off show car.
fward

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for YOURSELF

HUGE VENDOR LIST CLICK HERE

Chris Conklin

Quote from: Brian Daum on May 06, 2009, 03:53:21 PMHe has a tiny dog that he keeps kissing, hence the LUVDG identity on eBay.

Whew! Much better explanation than I had been picturing! Hahahahaha
Chris Conklin

Rusty Shepherd CLC 6397

Thanks, gentlemen.  I tried a Google search, but couldn't find much. The plague of those kind of guys never ends, the names just change from time to time.

Matt CLC#18621

Quote from: ottoskorzeny on May 06, 2009, 06:04:41 PM
Rusty,

You'll also find the story of the 1960 car with the TV. It's a big fat fake cobbled together from whatever was laying around in the garage at the time and represented as a one off show car.

Wasn't the “Zenith TV” car at a Barrett Jackson auction and he ended up buying it back including the 10% buyer's premium?

Matt
CLC# 18621

Otto Skorzeny

Quote from: Rusty Shepherd CLC 6397 on May 06, 2009, 07:59:14 PM
Thanks, gentlemen.  I tried a Google search, but couldn't find much. The plague of those kind of guys never ends, the names just change from time to time.

Search ebay and this forum.
fward

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for YOURSELF

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RobW

That sounds more like a tag job than anything else.
Rob Wirsing

Otto Skorzeny

fward

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for YOURSELF

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veesixteen

The story of "luvdg" and his "1959 Motorama Show Car" and/or "Harley Earl Skunk Works unique prototype" is on this page of the Club's Cadillac Database [search "luvdg"]:

http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_txt/Drm59.htm

Yann Saunders, CLC #12588
Compiler and former keeper of "The Cadillac Database"
aka "MrCadillac", aka "Veesixteen"

Otto Skorzeny

This is funny. I lifted the following quotes from his listing for the Ferrari above:

It has never been driven in the rain...never spent a night outside..it is in flawless Brand new condition...in one word...PERFECT!

Then, further down the ad copy is this:

There is no such thing as a "PERFECT" car...


Classic!
fward

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for YOURSELF

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35-709

 >:(   "Let the buyer beware" just barely covers Luvdg.  He makes other crooks in the used car business look good.
1935 Cadillac Sedan resto-mod "Big Red"
1973 Cadillac Caribou - Sold - but still in the family
1950 Jaguar Mark V Saloon resto-mod - Sold
1942 Cadillac 6269 - Sold
1968 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible - Sold
1950 Packard 2dr. Club Sedan
1935 Glenn Pray - Auburn Boattail Speedster, Gen. 2