Remember when that guy brought a Chippledale highboy in for an Antique Roadshow TV show appraisal. The piece was worth $175,000. However, since the guy had "cleaned it up and refinished it" it was only worth $15,000. To get a collector price for an Airstream you need to have it in near original condition. The '48 Wee Wind on E-bay would have brought more money in "as-is" original condition. A collector would not even consider an item so extensively altered. > FYI, the '48 Airstream for sale on eBay ended with a > top bid of $8620, a far cry from > the $17,500 reserve price. > Rich > Denver, CO > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original text from your reply.
