Bob,
I had been watching Gary's SLC since January waiting for it to go on sale, but got tired of waiting and picked up a new project a few months ago.
Did you win the pre-auction bid, or the live auction bid? They have two auctions for every car, one that is online from the day the car is posted until the live date, and then the live auction. The higher of dollar figure of the two auctions takes the car. If you were high bidder on the live auction and that was more than the pre-auction, the you should have it. If you just won the pre-auction, and the live auction went higher, then the live auction bidder would take it. It seems to me you won the pre-auction because that was a $15,800 at 38 minutes before the live auction started.
The co-part bidding system sucks with the dual auctions, and they really need to just go one way or the other.
That 15,800 pre bid was mine, have the screen shots to prove it. No one bid on the car during the live bid, I sat and watched it. They sent me a invoice for 17,787 for the total with auctions fees. I could post this stuff if you guys want to see it. The more I talk about it with friends, and read some of the complaint sites, this is not a abnormal occurrence for them. I think they might be using customers to "front" money and bid on cars, and if they see a good deal, or another insider wants the car, they just claim a auction "mistake". It's really shitty. And I am 100% sure Travarish is going to get this car. At least he has to shell out 17,787 for it, 1K to get it shipped to florida, and that thing needs a full glass body, full interior, windshield and all lexan, AC unit (gary never put it in) and probably a whole lot more. Who knows if the 20B is still good, I was betting it was, but now I hope its got low compression on #2. Gary only sold it for 41 or 43K. It really was a "rough" specimen compared to the Alan et al. of today builder. Plus it will also always have a salvage title, so resale will always be hard. Hope it just sucks money from him. I was somewhat worried it was going to tap me....
I was going to use it to try and build a front wheel electric drive for it, had it all spec'ed out, and ready to pull the trigger on the parts, and make it the first SLC hybrid. I didn't really care about resale or if the 20B was shot, as I used to rebuild about 5 of these a year back in the 90's. I was looking to get a motor/frame at a low entry point so I could really go nuts with the electric side, and not break the bank. They rotary was a really nice bonus.
Easy come easy go. I will throw some darts at his Instagram and youtube when he announces it. I will not let him make it seem he "won" the auction.
Bob
