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The Melton Cab A is for sale again. Interesting car. Pebble Beach BOS. One off. etc. They have put tires on it since RM offered at Amelia way back when. It is a Tom Barrett respray from the 80s on top of the original Pebble restoration. Cool, but needing quite a bit of refreshing. To translate to the uninitiated, "refreshing" a 540k means $400,000. Full restoration is probably at least double these days. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26617/lot/126/

I'm confused by this "no contact policy" you guys are talking about. Where is that? I was swapping messages with an ebay seller 2 days ago. Personally I think you are insane if you spend 50k or more on a car sight unseen without talking to the seller in some form. Btw, this ebay member has only bought items, he has a single sale to his record has far as I can tell.

? you can directly message the seller from the auction. I have not done it in a while but you could always get a phone number if the seller wanted to give it out.

The problem is not eBay but the seller. I would be very careful.

Most period pictures are BW but I’m not so sure those colors were ever used.

someone who should not have been allowed to choose colors.

Those cabs were built to take a beating. Their styling was always interesting (until the post war model) and there are almost none of them because they were run in to the ground.

Whenever I see crappy photos for a car advertisement I just can't wrap my head around why. Most garden variety 80 years have grand kids or even kids in the vicinity with a good to GREAT camera attached to them with their phones. Within 1-2 minutes you could snap a couple dozen good shots of any car. I just don't understand...

It would be insanity to nut and bolt that car when 60-70k buys the nicest one in the world. Btw, “resale red” has been dead for 20 years.

Cunningham.

Then why don't I get to stay for free?

We need to find one for the 29 Show - Nov 1928.

That is a pretty nice car. I had a very fleeting desire to get a Metropolitan once. That urge has passed.

I think the 48 is worth 10-15k as a parts car. 300K might get it restored if you can do a bunch of your own work. The shops I have experience with would take the 300k and ask when you are making the second installment.

Your point is valid and I agree, but there is a big difference between a Model 48 and an 880.

For sale on facebook for 48K. Model 880.

Now there is something you don't see too often. I have a 8 cylinder Loco thread going down in the CCCA forum that I will have to cross post this in.

So Thanks Walt. It is weird that I can find no reference to Lee S. Collins Inc. 1928-1930 in LA. I'm wondering if there was a lot of name changes going on. Perhaps they were doing business as someone else by then but still had a lot of Collins-Lusby plates hanging around in the shop for oil changes.

LA Times, May 1928.

In Feb 1928, the distributor seems to be J.W. Leavitt & Company. This is the LA Evening Express.

Agree with both of you. They should drive the car in the video also. Trying to sell a Cab "B" or "C" these days is not easy. The Hebmuller bringing 9 something hammer pre-coronoa tells you everything you need to know about the 500/540k market.

My car has the same tag on it. What is strange is that there are lots of newspaper mention of Collins-Lusby prior to 1927 in the LA Times and zero after.

I'm gonna start a thread on Classic era hood lengths.

I've been a very lucky boy and have been able to drive a couple of different 30 V16 Roadsters. Smooth, easy to drive, don't make you look stupid trying to shift it. But the one thing that stood out to me was the hood did not feel very long, relative to other "titan" level cars. The 32 hood looks a little longer, is true? I really like this convertible coupe.

Mark, how did you know it was bought new in LA? This picture is from the LA Times. Could be your car?