# My Eyes! The Goggles Do Nothing!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 31, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524 "2005-01-31T03:06:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/1 "2005-01-31T03:06:00Z")
I’m poking around on ebay for parts for my Chrysler, and checking out the other Newports for sale (not that I can afford one, but hey, it’s car porn, what can I say?) and I spot [this customized car.](http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43906&item=4522917902&rd=1) Now I can handle the wheels, the paint job looks good, but the interior! :eek: :eek: :eek:
And with that interior, there’s _no way_ he’ll get what he’s asking for that car (and generally they go for _more_ than what he’s asking, even if they’re unrestored).
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/2 "2005-01-31T03:08:42Z")
It’s pimp-a-liscious!
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/3 "2005-01-31T03:10:02Z")
I’m attracted and repulsed at the same time. On the one hand, it would be so sweet to have an interior like that. On the other hand, I might throw up if I had to look at it every day.
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### Author:  [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/4 "2005-01-31T03:15:42Z")
I spend too much time looking at “motorcycle porn” (vintage British bikes mostly) on Ebay and a lot of the prices make me laugh, the sad part is the selling prices!, I find it almost comical that folks will regularly spend more than new (NOS) prices for worn out, used parts that still need to be rebuilt.
Now, as far as that car goes, at first I thought those were just seatcovers but on closer inspection I see that Idiot-Boy did most of the interior in that Freako Fabric, some peoples kids huh?, he almost deserves the ass kicking that he is going to get when he sells that thing.
Unclviny
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/5 "2005-01-31T04:07:37Z")
> [@unclviny](#):
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> I spend too much time looking at “motorcycle porn” (vintage British bikes mostly) on Ebay and a lot of the prices make me laugh, the sad part is the selling prices!, I find it almost comical that folks will regularly spend more than new (NOS) prices for worn out, used parts that still need to be rebuilt.
Tools are the same way. I was looking at getting a Kennedy toolbox on eBay, when I quickly discovered that you could buy them cheaper _new_. I could understand paying that if they had tools in them, or the previous owner had done some kind of modification to them that made them more useful (like putting a vise on them), or if they were old enough to be considered an antique, but that wasn’t the case. They were all of about the same age (roughly 1970s) and had nothing in them. Some of them were even pretty beat up.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/6 "2005-01-31T04:57:13Z")
“Some people will do anything to be crazy.”–Mrs. Nott
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### Author:  [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/7 "2005-01-31T06:01:56Z")
I’ve had several customers of mine sell their used british bike parts on ebay for nearly as much as the new parts they bought from where I work when the old stuff wasn’t even worth recycling.
One born every minute, heh? :wally
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/8 "2005-01-31T06:10:33Z")
You can handle those wheels?
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/9 "2005-01-31T06:14:07Z")
[Well… another seller did pretty well with this used car](http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/cardetail.asp?id=178112)
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### Author:  [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/10 "2005-01-31T06:25:28Z")
I’m so confused. Why is this ride so cheap? Who would buy it sight unseen like that? Could it really be as good a deal as it seems? I would love to have this car if it was truly in the shape it’s claimed to be. Hell, I’d redo the upholstery, not that big a deal if the car was as mint as he says it is. What am I missing here?
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/11 "2005-01-31T06:56:24Z")
> [@essvee](#):
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> I’m so confused. Why is this ride so cheap? Who would buy it sight unseen like that? Could it really be as good a deal as it seems? I would love to have this car if it was truly in the shape it’s claimed to be. Hell, I’d redo the upholstery, not that big a deal if the car was as mint as he says it is. What am I missing here?
Are you familiar with eBay? Its users have an almost cult-like dedication to bidding literally at the last minute. That car will no doubt end up going for roughly whatever it is worth.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/12 "2005-01-31T06:58:54Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> [Well… another seller did pretty well with this used car](http://www.barrett-jackson.com/auctionresults/common/cardetail.asp?id=178112)
Likely the coolest car I will ever see in my life.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/13 "2005-01-31T12:04:34Z")
That’s why someone paid $3,240,000 for it.
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### Author:  [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/14 "2005-01-31T13:09:51Z")
My sister re-upholstered her fridge in that same faux-fur.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/15 "2005-01-31T13:23:12Z")
Eh…I’ve seen worse.
I’ve seen a 1978 AMC Pacer, Purple exterior, Neon Lime Green vinyl plastic interior seats, faux Zebra fur dashboard & wheelcover, matching mats.
Yes, I did.
No, I wasn’t the owner.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/16 "2005-01-31T18:02:26Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> And with that interior, there’s _no way_ he’ll get what he’s asking for that car (and generally they go for _more_ than what he’s asking, even if they’re unrestored).
Yeah he will. It’s a convertable, which drives up the price despite the interior horror.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/17 "2005-01-31T19:33:15Z")
> [@MrFantsyPants](#):
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> My sister re-upholstered her fridge in that same faux-fur.
That implies that the fridge was upholstered in the first place. 😕 Is ‘fridge’ Canadian slang for something other than refridgerator?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/18 "2005-02-01T00:10:06Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Yeah he will. It’s a convertable, which drives up the price despite the interior horror.
Nope. The Pimp-O-Matic interior’s a deal killer at that price. Somebody who wants a fully restored car, isn’t going to take it because of that, since the first thing that they’d have to do after getting it home (and unless you live closeby or do the hauling yourself, the price tag’s going to be around a grand or so to have the car hauled) is have the interior replaced with something that’s not quite so Og awful looking, and that probably means having the dash replaced, since it’s covered in tiger fur, which is tricky to get done right. So why spend all that money when something _without_ pimpification is going to come along sooner or later?
If you’re someone who _likes_ restoring cars, you’re not going to buy it since if he put that funky interior in it, there’s no telling what other kinds of bizzaro things he’s done to it. Might have replaced the motor mounts with coathangers or something, so if you spend $7K on a car that you then have to invest at least $3K into to get it looking _close_ to original (And that’s assuming that there’s nothing funky with the mechanicals. Notice there’s no pics of the trunk or engine compartment. Wonder why that is? Perhaps the leopard spot paint job on the engine didn’t hold up as well as he thought it would.), and at best you can hope to resell the car for $12K, that’s a $2K profit. Now, if you bought a similar car in _worse_ condition for $5K (say the interior’s shot and will all have to be replaced), and spent the same or slightly more to restore it to original condition, you’d make a $3 - $4K profit off of that. Which makes more sense?
If he’d have started the opening bid at $5K, he might have had a shot at getting $7K out of it, but with starting out at $7K, he’s not going to get any takers. He’s got a day and a half left on the auction and has gotten no bids. That crapped out Honda of mine got bids the second day it was listed.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/19 "2005-02-01T01:27:05Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> If he’d have started the opening bid at $5K, he might have had a shot at getting $7K out of it, but with starting out at $7K, he’s not going to get any takers. He’s got a day and a half left on the auction and has gotten no bids. That crapped out Honda of mine got bids the second day it was listed.
Tuckerfan, Not to hijack this thread to Cuba, but since we’re talking about getting cars up and running, IIRC the better part of a year ago or so you were in a world of hurt transportation to school wise. I’m curious, what did you ever work out?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing/287524/20 "2005-02-01T01:46:42Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> Tuckerfan, Not to hijack this thread to Cuba, but since we’re talking about getting cars up and running, IIRC the better part of a year ago or so you were in a world of hurt transportation to school wise. I’m curious, what did you ever work out?
Geeze, where have you been? I managed to snag a 1990 Pontiac Grand Am a year ago for about $900, then a few months later, and for about the same amount of money, I went to Denver and got [this “little” beauty.](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/76_1.JPG) (If you’ve got a lot of time to kill, you can read about my adventure in getting the car [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=282609)) Of course, I’m dead broke, but I’ve got plenty of wheels.
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