SO SO cars advertised at twice their value

[cadillacmike68]

... They reflect a false narrative from Social Media.''

No, Really??   

[dochawk]

I feel fortunate if I can find a part I need but I've seen some cars in junkyards which should have never been there.

I still have to finish dealing with my '92 Eldorado ETC.

A creampuff with factory perfect paint.

I got clipped in traffic, damaging the passenger front fender and door.

The body work estimate wasn't bad.

But for the prospect of painting two panels white diamond, they called it totaled!

I had been a good boy recently, it seems:  the $500 caddy with a blown Northstar the next week was a '95 base Eldorado with almost but not quite as good of paint.

so it will donate paint, door, and alternator (shorted out the voltage regulator from the wires being clipped in collision, it seems.

And shocks (or if different, I'll find something else).

I don't want a salvage title; I'll throw in my labor and the parts car cost for a few bucks less, but I need to find the right person at the other end.

That, and they misread the faded pin stripes (true) as faded paint (absolutely not true!), and I want the kicker on value for that rather than the penalty.

And the radiator, as I seem to be 1/3 blocked. [hard to replicate, but at over 115F and over 70 MPH, going up a good grade, the temp needle starts climbing up--but shoots down fast the moment I back off on the gas]

I also have an '02 DHS waiting for the scrapper once I strip what I want.

A beautiful interior, near perfect, but truly badly oxidized crimson pearl paint, and apparently the only Northstar in history to die a heat death without blowing the head gaskets; it still passes the block test, even though it overheats quickly.  I have delusions of mounting it's power telescoping and tilting steering wheel in my '72 convertible . . .

it will be a pity for it to go to the scrapper, but it's an engine rebuild and over $3k of paint away from being a $3k car.

[Cape Cod Fleetwood]

Has anyone been watching Mecum Kissimmee this week?
41m in sales, yesterday. This auction sets the tone for the year.
If someone wants your car, they will pay for it.

[Carfreak]

Yeah, I've heard about some of the sales prices particularly the collector of GM's former designated #3 Model (as referenced in their VINs) bringing crazy prices. 

Of course their highest hp blue printed engine models with standard transmissions but also some of the clones particularly the Viking Blue wagon.