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My Bird came through a factory auction - any clues on origination?

Started by rainbow4jd, March 03, 2013, 10:44:06 PM

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rainbow4jd

When I first bought my Bird, I did an interview of what I thought was the first owner.   He had bought it from Clean Auto Sales (a CP dealer in Cynthiana KY) off of their used car lot with 8K miles on it.  I recalled that he told me it was a dealer demo, (and I thought a dealer demo of that store).

However, when I was reading my notes of the interview - I see where the owner told me the dealer had acquired it via a Factory Auction.  I also see the name Dan Brannock written down (but that might be the dealer or salesman's name).

Does going through a factory auction lend itself to any additional knowledge of its origination.   Are there any factory auction records for circa 1971?

If it ended up in Kentucky - what was the likely location of the auction?   Because that might give me a clue to the general area it originated from.

Thanks.

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Doubt you could find out much. Factory auctions (around here anyway) are for only dealers of that company. Example,  GMAA has a GM sale on certain tuesdays.. only GM dealers can buy. The cars are factory demo's, exectutive driven, ect. But going back to 71...  :eek2:
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nascarxx29

1969 R4 Daytona XX29L9B410772
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23UOA174597
1970 FY1 Superbird RM23UOA166242
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23VOA179697
1968 426 Road Runner RM21J8A134509
1970 Coronet RT WS23UOA224126
1970 Daytona Clone XP29GOG178701

70gtx440dana

Quote from: rainbow4jd on March 03, 2013, 10:44:06 PM
When I first bought my Bird, I did an interview of what I thought was the first owner.   He had bought it from Clean Auto Sales (a CP dealer in Cynthiana KY) off of their used car lot with 8K miles on it.  I recalled that he told me it was a dealer demo, (and I thought a dealer demo of that store).

However, when I was reading my notes of the interview - I see where the owner told me the dealer had acquired it via a Factory Auction.  I also see the name Dan Brannock written down (but that might be the dealer or salesman's name).

Does going through a factory auction lend itself to any additional knowledge of its origination.   Are there any factory auction records for circa 1971?

If it ended up in Kentucky - what was the likely location of the auction?   Because that might give me a clue to the general area it originated from.

Thanks.

It is very likely that your car was driven by a Chrysler employee for a period of time and then sold through auction. This was very common for executive driven or employee lease cars.
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talkiemopar

Rainbow, what color is your bird. Clean auto sales had 2 birds on the lot 15 or 20 years ago.Could have been longer than that,i don't know.He also had a 500 that i test drove. It needed a lot of work,but the inside was clean.It got painted like the duke's of hazard 01.Of the 2 birds Larry Cook bought the orange one for$1450.00 and drove it home.The other one was yellow,which i know some of the history on that one.  Rick.

benny70hemibird

I ended up with the yellow car. It was very rough and really ragged out.

nascarxx29

1969 R4 Daytona XX29L9B410772
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23UOA174597
1970 FY1 Superbird RM23UOA166242
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23VOA179697
1968 426 Road Runner RM21J8A134509
1970 Coronet RT WS23UOA224126
1970 Daytona Clone XP29GOG178701

rainbow4jd

corporate blue 999   It's in brennan's registry of the superbirds.

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