That GP was a featured car in the Pontiac High Performance and Hot Rod mags. I guess that’s what drives up the price when there’s a buyer with a big ego to fill.
It’s funny but for the most part I don’t see the big collector car auctions going up like the rest of the world for used cars. There are some cars that have been laggers in their prices and now they are rising fast. For instance take C3 Corvettes. 2 years ago a clean, straight base chrome bumper ‘vette was low $20’s while the ‘75 through ‘79s when clean, straight and pretty would be $10K to $15K. Now a clean, straight and pretty 68 to 72 is common in the high $20K to mid $30’s. It’s about time those cars started to move, they sat at the same prices for the past 6 to 9 years. You see it with models that have been around forever - when the newest and greatest is now over $100,000 and climbing, spending 1/5th for a classic of the same model is now a steal! To prove my point look at Pick up trucks, VW Beetles, the reintroduction of Camaros, the Ford Scouts, Broncos - I bet I could name 10 models that made come-backs and made their older generations more desirable and through the roof to obtain.
It’s funny but for the most part I don’t see the big collector car auctions going up like the rest of the world for used cars. There are some cars that have been laggers in their prices and now they are rising fast. For instance take C3 Corvettes. 2 years ago a clean, straight base chrome bumper ‘vette was low $20’s while the ‘75 through ‘79s when clean, straight and pretty would be $10K to $15K. Now a clean, straight and pretty 68 to 72 is common in the high $20K to mid $30’s. It’s about time those cars started to move, they sat at the same prices for the past 6 to 9 years. You see it with models that have been around forever - when the newest and greatest is now over $100,000 and climbing, spending 1/5th for a classic of the same model is now a steal! To prove my point look at Pick up trucks, VW Beetles, the reintroduction of Camaros, the Ford Scouts, Broncos - I bet I could name 10 models that made come-backs and made their older generations more desirable and through the roof to obtain.