Not sure what it means for cars sales but at Carlise this year...

[AKcharger]

The car corral was the smallest I've ever seen it. I'd say cars for sale were 80% less than all other shows. All the area normally parking area was covered by used part vendors

Does it mean less cars on the market? People would rather sell on-line?

Anyway thought I'd share

[Mytur Binsdirti]

There sure does seem to be a lack of average quality (not high dollar) 340, 383 & 440 cars for sale these days.

[70 sublime]

And why is that ?

Eveyone would rather keep them than have the cash ?

[b5blue]

  Thanks for the pics! I haven't been out of the area in forever and lately overburdening fuel and expense costs have me clamped down even tighter. Likely that's what your seeing there?  Do you think it drove pricing in general up or down? 

[armor64]

the cost to get stuff there/trailer was my first thought. I was hoping to go this year (first time in a few), but the extra cost from ontario canada, plus the exchange rate, everything stacked against going. hopefully things get slightly more stable next time....

[472 R/T SE]

  Thanks for the pics! I haven't been out of the area in forever and lately overburdening fuel and expense costs have me clamped down even tighter. Likely that's what your seeing there?  Do you think it drove pricing in general up or down? 

Gotta think this played a part.

I wasn't gonna drag my heap there but thought about taking the SRT10 until Russia invaded.

Media seems silent about foreclosures.  Its only gonna get worse, imo.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

I agree. Way less cars for sale in the Corral ....even in the swaps.  Usually every other space there's a car for sale.....not this year. 

[426HemiChick]

 Thanks for the pics! I haven't been out of the area in forever and lately overburdening fuel and expense costs have me clamped down even tighter. Likely that's what your seeing there?   Do you think it drove pricing in general up or down?  

Gotta think this played a part.

I wasn't gonna drag my heap there but thought about taking the SRT10 until Russia invaded.

Media seems silent about foreclosures.  Its only gonna get worse, imo.

Hi 472 R/T SE,               21 July 2022

Take a look at the two photos in the first post; we wouldn't take any of our cars out in weather like that.

Think the media is starting to mention the deterioration in the housing market, increases in interest rates, the increase in foreclosures and increased unemployment numbers. Also lots of talk about a recession. Some of the goings on in "warshington" aren't helping; it seems like the inmates are running the asylum.

Probably a good time to stock up on non perishable food stocks and other survival essentials. We've stocked up with 30 cases each of Oreo and Lorna Doone cookies, Ten cases each of A&W Root Beer and Vernor's Ginger Ale, three 10 pound wheels of Limburger cheese, 5 cases of canned sardines and six cases of 50 barf bags. We're in this for the long haul.

We "ain't" no experts on the economy. Make sure you keep a reasonable amount of cash on hand, like about $6mil or more. Never can have enough. We counted up our stash and it's at a mighty $6.37. We're working on it though.

Take Care Folks, things will get "Worser" before they "gets Gooder." We think the great Economist "AOC" has the right solution and that's for the Government to print more money. This reminds us of an example of when Germany succumbed to the Depression of 1920. They foresaw AOC's great economic solution. At the beginning of 1920, 50 marks was equivalent to one US dollar. By the end of 1923, one US dollar was equal to 4,200,000,000,000 marks; that's 4 trillion, 200 billion Marks. Yeah, they tried her solution and it worked fine, everyone became Trillionaire's. Problem was, their money was worthless.

A story from that time was that a person went shopping for a loaf of bread. He put his bundles of money in his wheelbarrow. When he got to the store he couldn't get the wheelbarrow through the door. He parked his wheelbarrow just outside the shop door. He was concerned someone might steal his money. He went into the store for the bread and when he went out to get his bundles of money, it was lying on the ground and the wheelbarrow was History.

Good night folks.

Best Always

426 Hemi Chicks

[472 R/T SE]

I lived in the NW for 29 years.  Weather doesn't scare me anymore, lol.  Besides, its insured.  Id just buy another, lol.



East Texas farmers can't feed their cattle so there's been a recent massive sell off of them.

Fertilizer (petroleum based of course) has sky rocketed in price.  Sri Lanka anyone?
Drought has left land bare.
Hoover Damn is about to be a dead pool, non producing electricity.  Intake #1 is about exposed.  Intake #2 is just 800' down.
The Great Salt Lake is 1/3 full.  Its always fluctuated but now they're worried about if it dries up, arsenic and all sorts of bad stuff being airborne.


An old buddy of mine raises Buffalo.  I'm going out to his place so I can load up the freezer.
Thin line here being political.



But old mopes with yellow gauges are going for crazy money, lol.

[426HemiChick]

I lived in the NW for 29 years.  Weather doesn't scare me anymore, lol.  Besides, its insured.  Id just buy another, lol.
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An old buddy of mine raises Buffalo.  I'm going out to his place so I can load up the freezer.
Thin line here being political.
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But old mopes with yellow gauges are going for crazy money, lol.

Hi 472 R/T SE,              21 July 2022

Lived it the North Central, Ohio. The weather is lousy; average 67 days of sunshine per year. Been home here in Phoenix 7 months. We've had over 200 days of sunshine. We have days of temps over 100° f. We like it, it's dry and mosquitoes are an endangered species.

To each his own. Find it easier to cool off than trying to get warm when subzero.

Best Always

426 Hemi Chicks

PS:

Our cars don't rust either.

[AKcharger]

...Take a look at the two photos in the first post; we wouldn't take any of our cars out in weather like that.

Actually that was Saturday and there was a merciful cloud layer to block sun and a breeze, was perfect.

I think you guys have a point, why spend $$$ to drag cars here when you'll get as many, likely more views on-line

[Alaskan_TA]

The truth is......

Starting about 3 years or so ago, Carlisle Productions had so many requests for vendor spots, that the unused car coral spaces were used for vendor spots.

Best Mopar only swap acreage in the world, and it continues to grow.  

[lloyd3]

It's funny...when you grow-up in the Rust Belt, you'd pine for more sunshine and less rain. After you've moved away to much-dryer and warmer places, you realize that the lush & beautiful green countryside you grew-up in was a direct result of all that wet and damp. Bugs are an inconvenience, it's true, but it's also very troubling when all the bugs start to disappear and your carefully planted flowers and trees start to struggle. I've lived in the high & dry out here for something like 37-years now and I now find myself wishing for a bit more rain and green things. The biomass is very thin here, and dry, brown and rocky simply don't tickle my eyes like the deciduous forests of the eastern US now do. It's the human condition, I suppose, to want what you don't have. Lately, I've had to contemplate a relocation back to that part of the world (as a temporary measure) and I'm actually somewhat looking forward to it.  Living things are becoming more beautiful to me, more engaging and fun to contemplate. I won't likely be taking my car with me, and that's a shame because driving it back there would be even more fun now.

[JimShine]

I noticed a big change across the board with all popular collectibles going back to the start of Covid lock downs. People are buying the stuff they always wanted, but never made happen. Jukeboxes, Pinball machines, Video games, vintage stereo equipment, musical instruments, cars, movie props, you name it, everything has boosted up in demand (and naturally value) as the available quantity on the market plummets. Classic supply and demand in action. I earn my living catering to an aspect of the collectible musical instrument field. The dry spell has tightened up my profit margins, and I have far less opportunity than I had in 2019. I talk with others like me in other collectible areas (cars too) and they all have the same story.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

I noticed a big change across the board with all popular collectibles going back to the start of Covid lock downs. People are buying the stuff they always wanted, but never made happen. Jukeboxes, Pinball machines, Video games, vintage stereo equipment, musical instruments, cars, movie props, you name it, everything has boosted up in demand (and naturally value) as the available quantity on the market plummets. Classic supply and demand in action. I earn my living catering to an aspect of the collectible musical instrument field. The dry spell has tightened up my profit margins, and I have far less opportunity than I had in 2019. I talk with others like me in other collectible areas (cars too) and they all have the same story.

And it'll all be for sale when the economy really takes a crap and people lose their income.

[426HemiChick]

I noticed a big change across the board with all popular collectibles going back to the start of Covid lock downs. People are buying the stuff they always wanted, but never made happen. Jukeboxes, Pinball machines, Video games, vintage stereo equipment, musical instruments, cars, movie props, you name it, everything has boosted up in demand (and naturally value) as the available quantity on the market plummets. Classic supply and demand in action. I earn my living catering to an aspect of the collectible musical instrument field. The dry spell has tightened up my profit margins, and I have far less opportunity than I had in 2019. I talk with others like me in other collectible areas (cars too) and they all have the same story.

And it'll all be for sale when the economy really takes a crap and people lose their income.

Hi Mytur Binsdirti, JimShine.             03 August 2022

When there's too many $$$$ chasing a finite number of goods; the guberment keeps adding to the supply of $$$$; it's only a matter of time until the economy collapses, which is a prelude to the switch to Socialism; that's when you won't own anything. You ain't seen nothing yet.

God help our country.

Best Always

426 Hemi Chicks

[JimShine]

And it'll all be for sale when the economy really takes a crap and people lose their income.

And will trigger a wave of mass exportation.

[ACUDANUT]

 Wait until Taiwan stops making our replacement sheet metal. Our new car lots are empty and China and the US are looking at WWIII. Ain't looking good at all.

[b5blue]

  Ho doom and gloom. The sky is falling. I been hearing this since being told to get under my desk in 1962. Yet you guys are first to squeal when something "something might happen" because yada yada yada. The same crew spouts the same stuff everyplace.