"New" old cars

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http://www.mustangclassifieds.com/mustang-3432.html

"1993 Ford Mustang Cobra "R" 1 of 107 produced. only 456 original miles. Still in plastic,seats carpet,sterring wheel.also has markings on windshield from assembly line. Tons of documentation.Car shows like new. No Dissapointments $75000.00 seventy five thousand dollars O.B.O or possible TRADE'S?"

I was doing my daily web browsing and came across this the other day. I think this is extremely awesome that someone has preserved this car, avoiding the temptation to drive it and keeping the piece of automotive history in pristine condition.

I was wondering if anyone else has any articles of cars like this? It would be great to see more cars preserved and kept basically brand new over the years!
 
There's a motor museum over here that does that a bit - they generally buy the first/last vehicles off the production line and, as far as I'm aware, keep them mint.

But it's a motor museum revolving around the British Car industry, so the most interesting thing you'll find are the first and last Rover 75s...
 
this is insane:

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it is a 1971 HEMI Charger with 10k original miles and even the spark plug cables are original. Heck, the paper behind the spare tire is original. that should say enough.

Link:

http://www.moparaction.com/Article/Purple_Reign/Purple_Reign.html

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"the vehicle traveler sheet is taped to the left of the spare—which has never been out of the trunk."
 
Not online, but there's a guy with an original 70's Cobra that they restored only a few years ago. Not even a hundred miles, I think, on the thing, and the engine blew. Ford sent him a replacement engine, but he wanted full refund. They never saw eye to eye, and the car, along with the unused and still packaged replacement engine spent thirty years in the garage.

Fascinating story... read it in one of the Mustang rags.
 
I remember something at Barrett-Jackson this year. Someone brought a '93 Firebird with a 3400 and a 4-speed and they were totally at a loss as to why the car was even there. It was hilarious, because they were just kind of guessing about its reasoning for 3 whole minutes before they were like "check the mileage," which is when they found out it had less than 70 miles or so on it, after which they just started laughing.
 
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I take it most of you have seen these. Can't find a perfect one, but it'd fetch around $750,000 if it was.
 
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I remember something at Barrett-Jackson this year. Someone brought a '93 Firebird with a 3400 and a 4-speed and they were totally at a loss as to why the car was even there. It was hilarious, because they were just kind of guessing about its reasoning for 3 whole minutes before they were like "check the mileage," which is when they found out it had less than 70 miles or so on it, after which they just started laughing.
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I wouldn't have driven it more than that either. :lol:
 
It would of been ok if this was about 10-15+ years from now when that Firebird would be worth something. Even with 70 miles on the odometer I wouldn't of paid more than $6k for it.
 
Anyone remember the story of the dealer-preserved twin-turbo 300ZX? Factory fresh, engine run every month or so to keep it in condition. Delivery miles. The guy was selling it for about $40,000 when the 350Z came out.

If I had the money, I'd have actually been tempted... :lol:
 
I have quite a lot of articles along these lines as I love stories like this. I'll have to dig some out, unfortunately I don't think I have many with me.

One of the best ones I can think of that has cropped up in my recent searching was Mazda with their Mk1 MX-5 refresher program in 2003. I also have a snippet in a magazine of a SW20 MR2 that has only done a couple of hundred miles from new, and full magazine articles on a 1979 Mini 1100 Special with only 33 miles on the clock, and a Mazda AZ-1 with only a handful of miles too. I'll try and get images of them up today if I get a chance 👍 Somewhere else I've got an article on a Volkswagen Type 2 that still has the dealer stickers dotted about and the only change it's had are the tyres as the old ones had gone brittle.
 
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Anyone remember the story of the dealer-preserved twin-turbo 300ZX? Factory fresh, engine run every month or so to keep it in condition. Delivery miles. The guy was selling it for about $40,000 when the 350Z came out.

If I had the money, I'd have actually been tempted... :lol:
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That is no contest, $40,000 would be worth it.
 
My dad had a '66 AMC Ambassador DPL that had about 26K miles on it when he bought it, we sold it with almost 40K a few years ago. It was really cool being that it drove basically like a new car and everything was in great condition. Except on the passenger fender where hurricane Katrina knocked down it's storage shed, or whatever it was stored in, and scratched it up. Closest thing to a "New" used car I've ever been around. More like gently used. :lol:
Had the dealer key ring and all kinds of paperwork too.

Though I will say, using it as a DD put a fair bit of wear on stuff like the front seats. It had white vinyl, the criss-crossed pattern, hounds-tooth maybe? Anyways, it was very dried out I guess, and the stitching came out and it separated on the edge of the seat.
 

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