World's only remaining "Ghost Car" up for auction - 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six

[Miss Golightly]

Sorry if this has been posted before but I just saw this today - remarkable doesn't cover it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...Plexiglas-Pontiac-expected-fetch-500-000.html

Checkbooks at the ready folks......

 

[MisterCairo]

Chequebook at the ready! Funny how the article says it only has 86 miles on it, but the dials and steering wheel are pockmarked as if it'd been driven around the world!

 

[scotrace]

Looks like it hasn't always been stored under best conditions. Still, WOW!

 

[StraightEight]

If this car had a conventional steel body it'd be worth $15k tops, but it is such a neat artifact of the era that I think it'll pull in some serious money.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

They don't come much rarer than this!

 

[Oldsarge]

Wonderful! I wonder if my next door car-collector-neighbor has seen this. I'll have to tell him.

 

[Deco-Doll-1928]

Amazing! Thank you for sharing this.

 

[bil_maxx]

Wow. I can't imagine a car costing $25,000 in 1939. That was a gigantic amount of money. Based on GDP comparisons, it is over $1.68 million today.

 

[Talbot]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing

 

[filfoster]

This was amazing! I am semi-literate in older cars but had never heard of such a thing as plexiglass car bodies. Fascinating! Thanks for this.

 

[Gray Ghost]

This would make a nice vehicle for my alter ego, "The Gray Ghost".

=GG=

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Looks like Jay Leno will be pulling out his checkbook.

 

[MikePotts]

Wow. I can't imagine a car costing $25,000 in 1939. That was a gigantic amount of money. Based on GDP comparisons, it is over $1.68 million today.

You might (repeat might) be able to buy a new Veyron for $1.68M, oh no, make that Pounds!

 

[Shangas]

Looks like Jay Leno will be pulling out his checkbook.

I'd be surprised if he doesn't already own one. He's got quite a car collection.

 

[Apple Annie]

Imagine driving down the street in that, it would be fabulous. You could give small children binoculars and tell them they're x-ray goggles

 

[Marla]

"Billed as a vision of the future..."

If only!! 72 years have gone by, and still no ghost cars.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

"Billed as a vision of the future..."

If only!! 72 years have gone by, and still no ghost cars.

Yeah,...and no flying cars either. Where are the flying cars we were promised??

 

[AtomicEraTom]

A good friend of mine, may he rest in peace, had a truck he called "The Gray Ghost"

This would make a nice vehicle for my alter ego, "The Gray Ghost".

=GG=