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Auction at Roberti's Feedback... Posted by LIFETIMEOFSAABS [Email]  (#2) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from LIFETIMEOFSAABS) on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:23:05
In Reply to: Did Anyone Attend the Auction at Roberti's Today?, ToddF, Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:01:50 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Went to the auction...got there at about 9:30 and signed in. The building was unheated, floors were slushy and slippery from the snowstorm. There were several hundred people there. Mostly locals and owners/operators of service shops and vehicle-related businesses such as dismantlers, etc.
Parking lot was chock full Pickup trucks and U-Hauls. Only a couple of Saabers showed up. First auction items went for blowout prices...and we thought it was going to be a rout. Sad to see a 9000 [parts car] go for $25 and the like... The shop's nearly new Ford plow truck went for $12.5K
That was a good deal!
I was interested in picking up a SAAB dealer sign for the house garage .. but they went for crazy money in my book. I wasn't sure who was buying them but there were three guys going back and forth for them and they quickly bid them up beyond what a passive collector might pay. I assume they were dealer reps or something.
There were no new Saab parts. That stuff must have been moved off-site earlier or had gone back to suppliers, Saab or other dealers. I was a bit bummed about that. There were some single wheels here and there for late model vehicles and a couple of Saab gift items and some new tires.
The rest of the items were terribly sorted. Piles of mixed lots and things that were difficult to gauge. Most from dismantled vehicles... Nothing very valuable or "cool." The Saab-specific tools were a mess and most of the pieces were missing. There was an ISAT and a couple of GM Tech 2 tools as well as shop tools such as tire balancers, lifts, A/C refrigerant recovery equipment, etc. The rest was office equipment, showroom furniture, etc.
The shop manuals were incomplete.
In the end I thought it was targeted at those who operated a car dealership, wanted to buy heavy-duty shop equipment or operated salvage yards. Saab enthusiasts would have been hard pressed to find real value unless they needed/wanted something in particular in the used part lots.
About the only thing I would have bid on if I had stuck around was the ISAT and the lot of ABS brake parts.
I heard the ISAT went for $1,100. Which is toward the high-end of what they go for on eBay in decent shape...but this one was filthy and had a broken connector.
Sad to see a Saab shop close. Hopefully there wont be many more to follow.
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