Saw this on Ebay.
I grant you early 50s stuff is not my thing, but isnt this about 5000 too much, well okay at least 4?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oldsmobile-N...US_Cars_Trucks

 

The car looks solid, if a bit dirty. Apparently it has only 26,000 miles on it, which is amazing, if true, for a 64-year-old car. The $12,500 is just a buy-it-now price. He's willing to take offers.

The Old Cars Price Guide puts the value of a '50 Olds 98 four-door sedan in #4 condition (runs and drives but needs complete restoration) at about $4,500. In #3 condition ("car-show" but not showroom), the value listed is about $10,000. So this car, with its low mileage, good-condition interior, and other positives is certainly better than #4 but not up to #3, so the value could be anywhere in between. It's certainly less, at least going by this source, than his BIN price, but you can't blame him for asking it. The worst that can happen is that he doesn't get it, and you never know what might happen.

 

I've seen a lot worse go for a lot more. That car has a 'presence' that you just don't see today.

 

I think desireability on this is low (4dr needing resto) and so it would be around a 6 thousand dollar car due to low mileage. You dont just get in a original 60 year old car and go cruising... it is going to need things... some that may be major.

 

$12,500
1950 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Futuramic
Rare 1950 Oldsmobile 98 Futuramic All Original Super Low Miles Rocket V8
FOUR DOOR
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Seems high to me
it does say MAKE AN OFFER
easier to come down than go up.

 

What you are totally clueless about is the fact that ASKING price is in no way related to value.

 

5000-6000 car tops unless you sit on it for a very long time. The best thing to do with that car is detail it tune it up ect and market it over seas. They don't seem to care as much for a car has to be a 2dr anyone to want it like we do.

 

Heck, Air Ride, 455, lots of possibilities

 

Gosh Joe,
I thought 5-7 max was about where this car should be. I didnt realize it was standard practice to ask twice market value! I will have to send you in to do my future pricing and negotiating!

 

My point was that people routinely ask insane prices on ebay. It means nothing as far as actual value is concerned. If the B.I.N. were $100,000, it wouldn't make the car worth that much. Another example is the idiot who's been trying to sell a pair of extremely rusty C heads for the last year on the D.C. Craigslist. He's asking $350 (down from $800) and claims that he's seen them LISTED on ebay for $1000, so his are a bargain.

I challenge him to show me a completed auction on ebay where crusty C heads actually SOLD for $1000.

 

True point, guess I just framed it wrong. Not too long ago I was a kid who over paid for a rust bucket or two....
HAHA

 

Low miles but needs suspension bushings? I don't think you could wear out bushings in that few of miles. I would have to see that car up close and personal before I would even make an offer.....Just me I guess...Tedd