Posted on 09/28/2013 5:41:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
When Ray Lambrecht closed his Chevy Dealership in the little town of Pierce, Nebraska in 1996 he did it without fanfare, according to auto auctioneer Yvette Vanderbrink. "It is amazing, you know he just went home. Just decided today's the day I'm going to retire and locked the doors and everything was left just as it was."
What was left included some 500 unsold cars, many of them brand new models with less than 20 miles on the odometer. Something of an eccentric, Lambrecht believed in only selling new cars. If a vehicle didn't sell, he would take it off the showroom floor and put it storage. Trade-ins were also stored, many of them simply parked out in a large field on the edge of town.
All of the vehicles will be auctioned off this weekend and the sale has drawn attention across America and beyond. "It's kind of amazing," says Pierce resident Rick Sirek. "I have a secretary down here that was in Sweden about ten days ago...and she heard people in the lobby in this hotel in Sweden talking about this Lambrecht car sale here."
The reclusive Lambrecht, who has declined all interview requests, opened his dealership in 1946 when GM was looking for franchises in small towns across the country. Now 96 and with health problems, he has finally made the hard decision to sell off his stash.
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That looks like the right show. That’s where I’ll be tonight.
He's got his people there...but I haven't heard if he'll be there.
I want that 58 Cameo Pickup.
I don’t think a Zombie Apocalypse could keep him away.
The auctioneers will be smoking some fat Cubans and popping a bottle of old stuff at the end of this event.
A three hour show 9/28/2013, 8pm Central, Hosted by Brian Unger and
featuring the TOP GEAR guys, Rutledge Wood and Tanner Foust.
A store open recently in Florida (where else) that sells things to keep Zombies away... It's true. Only in Florida...
These are probably all Pre-EPA cars.
That’s when styling, good looks, mystique and power sold cars.
Today, at the point of an EPA gun, cars are all required to look like lemon drops with wheels
I was just reading the article which made me think of that response.
Freepers are readers... ya gotta give ‘em that...
I live in Florida - easy to think of a store opening here with the goal of keeping zombies away... but hard to imagine a store like that any place else. (lucky you) Charred chicken bones are a sign of one of Florida’s other religions ... they can be used to put curses on people - or maybe that’s the bleached white bones... anyhow - it’s Florida.
Of course none of the ones being sold could touch a new Camaro, Mustang, or Challenger in a race.
AKA Flori-duh.
It is kind of a highly specialized novelty and military surplus store.
Unless it does a lot of online sales I don’t see it really being a success.
What kind of race are you talking about?
Speed? The 1960 cars can’t beat the new ones, just as the 1950 cars couldn’t beat the 1960’s. That kind of thing hasn’t changed for over a 100 years.
Beauty contest? I’m not so sure the lemon drops would beat the cars designed from an angle of mystique.
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It is on the History Channel right now.
I actually BOUGHT some of that stuff, and it REALLY works!
NO zombies have been spotted in my area for MONTHS now!
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