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CarSpecGarage
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2013
I love classic muscle cars, supercars, and EVs. I also enjoy restorations, modifications, and really anything to do with cars, hence the tagline "Car Enthusiast"!
What it’s like to sell a classic car on Bring A Trailer: 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT
In this video, I take a deep dive into Bring A Trailer, the popular online auction site for classic and unique cars. While it’s often praised for its selection, is it really worth the hype? I share my honest thoughts, highlight some of the hidden flaws, and provide insights based on real buyer experiences. Whether you’re considering selling or buying, this review will help you decide if Bring A Trailer is the right platform for you. Buckle up and find out the truth behind the hype!
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Restoring a Classic: My 1972 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 Journey Begins (Episode 1)
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It's time for a new project, and here it is! A 1972 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 that I purchased in Florida about a year ago. It's going to get a full restoration on the channel over the next year. #alfa #alfaromeo #alfa105 #carrestoration Follow me on.... Twitter: @CarSpecGarage Instagram: @CarSpecGarage
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I just finished the full engine build for the 72 GTV 2000. Now time to replace the Spica fuel injection with my own fuel injection system. You will not want to miss it. #alfa #Alfa105 #alfagtv #enginerebuildspecialist #engine #enginebuild #2000 Follow me on.... Twitter: @CarSpecGarage Instagram: @CarSpecGarage
Restoring My 1967 Giulia Sprint GT - A Year in the Making
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72 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 Bottom End Engine Rebuild - Episode 2
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It took a while, but we have the bottom end of our 1972 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 motor rebuilt. We are not going back with Spica setup, but moving forward with a modern FI system. I know the Spica Gods are crying right now and I get it. I want this motor to be as reliable as possible for the restomod. Hope you enjoy. #alfa #alfaromeo #alfa105 #carrestoration #restomod Follow me on.... Twitter: @CarS...
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I recently sold a BMW 128i on BAT. While the process was somewhat involved, the whole thing went well and the outcome was excellent!
It is gone already.. someone stole it...
BaT is daytime entertainment for retired guys.
You could have just called tesla
Easier said than done, you tried later to call Tesla. If you can even talk to someone, they have no clue. Lol
@CarSpecGarage Plan B would have been sending an image to Elon on twitter with a questioned tweet, "...finders keepers?" ✌️
@@Emmanuel-eu8gk I did that and sent the image to Tesla as well. Crickets
@CarSpecGarage Plan C, take the car home then, finders keepers
@@Emmanuel-eu8gk Where were you like 7 months ago, lol? I could have used a plan C….
Tesla can call it home...
Sorry you're one step behind of thinking instead of touching the car or leave fingerprints on it & making nonsense quick video wasting idiot timing just call police to come do investigation sometimes there's idiot citizens have the phone in hand taking video but not crossing forward to help wtf might there's body inside trunk so next time you I mean you idiot not touching on crime spot & don't make video quick showing No need show your brain use your brain put f... phone away either help call local police or get f.. out
Sounds like BaT uses them as they are cheap.
Seems that way. BaT did tell me they are working out the kinks and then the guy laughed.
Could be stolen or they stopped paying
It was so strange
Seems like That Carmel is just a BS middleman. I sold a car on BAT about 3 -4 years ago. I was in Houston, the buyer in Washington state. He wired me the money I sent signed title USPS register. Once that was done, truck came and picked it up. I have no idea what name he registered it under in his state and frankly shouldn't care.
They are a registered dealer and the middle man for BaT.
Purchased 2 cars personally no issues.
That’s good to hear.
Do these need to be cut for 2024-2025 models?
I am not sure
The door's only shutting like that because the window is down.
I asked what the time was,not how the watch worked.
Truthfully? Your video is so dramatized. I hear the drama's good on daytime TV.
Ok, thanks
Next year 40..
Hope not
I sold one last year and they did not have an escrow service. I sold mine across the country and had the money wired to my account. No issues at all. I personally liked the experience and had my son do the photos of the car - he has great camera and knows what to do. Also did videos. Never had to change anything on the car's description.
My experience with BaT was fine, the escrow service was the worse part of my experience.
Musk is recording Vivian charging activity while also advertising
Haha, that’s funny
Musk parked it there to troll Rivian .. Guy is a Savage
That could have easily happened.
BaT needs to hire a User Experience Director and start digging into solving these use cases.
That is a great idea
The 72 GTV is one of my all time favorite Alfa Romeos, and I've owned 3 different ARs over the years, including a 1965 GT Junior (1300) that I raced in SCCA as a 1600. Finding OEM parts became a royal nightmare! Keep up the good work.
Thank you my friend.
Bring the trailer started my listing mid week , while they agreed to list for Sat end. Additionally when we have unlocked the reserve their system sold the car to previous bidder, while bidders were there waiting still to bid, many of them reached out while car sold below their bid. . . Probably the biggest beef i have with them is lowering the car value by forcing you to accept their reserve price . ( you do not to accept their reserve price - but you wont be able to list )
That sucks
It's called 'sniping', but you try to do it with so little time left that no one else can bid.
You can't snipe on BAT. Every last-minute bid will automatically extend the auction two more minutes. I've seen auctions last another 30-40 minutes when several individuals bid in the last seconds which added 2 minutes over and over until all but one bidder gave up.
Sniping is not possible on BaT.
I'd like to give you my BaT experience as a buyer: I first bought a low-mileage vintage sedan in 2020 from a small dealer/repair garage. When I went to pick it up in person, everything looked just as I expected and I was very pleased. But, I should have noticed that all the windows were down, in addition missing the ashtray. So, after a couple weeks of ownership, you guessed it; it smelled like an ashtray! This year, I bought a second vehicle on BaT, a low-mileage p/u truck from a guy that buys and sells a couple cars a year for extra income. I had it shipped to me (and yes, BaT's shipping was way too expensive so I found my own). Well, when it arrived and I opened the door and it smelled like absolute butt. There's no way the seller was not aware of this. There were lots of other little things too that should have been disclosed and/or photographed. I spend $250 having the carpet extracted and later found the problem to be a significant water leak around the back window which required it's complete removal and a new seal. I probably need to replace the carpet and pad for complete remediation. I still have both cars and enjoy them, but was very disappointed in the sellers' lack of disclosure, and deception really. Especially when you consider BaT prices are top-dollar, unless you score a No Reserve deal when everyone is playing golf. In short, buyer beware and do a pre-inspection if you can!
BaT started my listing without consulting with me whether the timing was convenient, despite them guaranteeing they would consult about timing before starting the listing. Classic
Sorry to hear that. My experience with BaT was great, minus Caramel. #drivecaramel
Horses and used cars are best if one looks in the dam thing "in the mouth."
WoW! What a back end hassle, glad it all worked out. As a fiduciary in my business life, Carmel dropped the ball. Especially if they are dealing with those buying through corporate means (vs. personal purchasing). Their manual process is medieval, and without options savvy to the higher profile entrepreneur collector/hobbyists. Them figuring it out? Start with a TQM approach that engages proactively, personally. Very little to upgrade to that approach, lots of off the shelf customer resource management software does it. Automatically and reliably. Incorporating the sadly lacking corporate purchaser aspect into the system, a little more effort. With the laughably low transaction fee level, just get 'er done and place transitioning cost into fee which seems to have plenty of headroom for upgraded implementation. Whew! Sorry for the loooong rant, but seriously thanks for sharing. Some of us work that way in avoiding needless outlays though enterprise routing of the toy chest. Good luck with second step, we'll be watching ...
Thank you, it was a heck of an ordeal.
Hi there. I was one of the 3 early bidders on your 1967 and certainly wish I would have been able to keep bidding, but I was fishing in Alaska during the last two days of the auction and missed out. I later found out the boat I was on during the day had StarLink so I probably could have kept bidding but didn’t realize that I could get Wi-Fi on the boat until after the auction ended. 😢. We had exchanged emails during the auction process and I appreciated your quick response. I’m the guy whose grandmother went to Alabama University if you recall. (I found out in the meantime from my aunt that my grandmother was actually a classmate of Bear Bryant which I thought was pretty cool). Coincidentally, I ended up purchasing a different Alfa on Bring a Trailer a week or so later. It was a 1965 Giulia Spider (later confirmed to be a Veloce), which is another car that I’ve always wanted. The car was in California and I live in California so I figured the purchase process would be simple enough, but the seller was also more comfortable using The verified checkout process on Bring a Trailer (Caramel), and it really was a mess as you described. In our case, it was an in-state transaction between two private parties. So there was no complication of an LLC or corporation, but it was still a painful and lengthy process. The auction closed on a Friday afternoon, and I started the paperwork that evening or early on Saturday to verify my identity. The seller did the same but there was some issue with his phone number being mixed up with his daughter’s who was helping with the sale, So the identity verification took longer on his end. Anyway I finally got to the stage on Sunday where I could sign the papers electronically, and the process was very confusing and was not explained well anywhere. For example, it pre-populated the wire transfer information which I later realized w Caramel’s bank information, but was indicated as “buyers” wire transfer information. I figured it out on my own but there was no documentation to explain the escrow process. The seller and I also were frustrated that there was no phone number to call and every time we emailed Support we seem to get a different person responding back, sometimes quite a bit later. I went to the bank on Monday morning at bank opening and completed the wire transfer. I was traveling for business that week, and left on my business trip thinking that the money would go through the same day or possibly the following day. Unfortunately, by Wednesday afternoon, there have been no change on the dashboard and so I emailed Caramell support. They responded that my wire had not come through and could I please check with my bank to make sure that everything was OK. of course at this point I am extremely concerned because I wasn’t sure if it was a scam or if I had entered the wrong information on the wire transfer, although I was very certain I had done everything correctly. I bank with Wells Fargo but Caramel’s bank is Silicon Valley Bank which you may recall is a bank that actually failed in 2023, and was purchased by another bank. When I checked with Wells Fargo they said that sometimes wire transfers take longer to smaller banks and savings and loans, and so it could take up to three or four days. I’ve never had a wire transfer take more than 24 hours in the past so this was pretty surprising to me. Anyway, after spending a couple hours calling my bank and verifying the wire transfer I reported this back to Caramel, and they said magically that my wire transfer had been received but it had been “flagged” by their bank. I requested a call so they could explain what this meant but never received one. By this time the seller was a little bit concerned and I had to explain the entire situation to them. I flew home on Thursday and when I arrived home they said everything was now good except that the seller had to get a California smog check done on the vehicle as it was a California requirement. I knew this to be completely false because any car prior to 1975 model year is exempt in California! I sent Caramel screenshots from the California DMV website stating this, and requesting a call or email back. The seller was elderly and his daughter had gone back out of state by this time, and I couldn’t imagine the owner having to deal with a smog check that wasn’t even required. I believe Caramel is based in California so they should have known this. Even if it had been required, they should have noted it from the outset rather than waiting until the funds cleared. About 15 hours later they emailed back to say that I was correct and the car was now authorized for pick up. This was on Friday, a full five days after I had made payment via wire. It ended up working out fine in the end, but seem to take way too long myself and the seller through a good deal of stress. For an in-state transaction it should have been much quicker, and I still don’t understand all of the rigmarole they put us through on the wire transfer and smog check. I also wondered about the cost of the service and later concluded that you get what you pay for! It honestly felt like they were purposely delaying the transaction on their end for some reason, but I can’t confirm that. Sorry for the long winded comment, but I wanted to share my experience as well. I wasn’t even able to schedule shipping for the car until the full seven days after I won the auction. Perhaps I was just being impatient but all of the stress and lack of communication was the worst part. If the dashboard on Caramel had reflected correct information throughout the process, and if someone would’ve simply taken the time to explain what was going on, I probably wouldn’t be nearly as disappointed.
Their service completely sucks! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Can the original wing still function ?
Yes and no. You have to change some pins out on the original harness to connect to the third brake light on the spoiler.
Part number or location; where to buy?
Sun cost Porsche website
Looks amazing 👏 congrats
Thank you!!
Who did the bodywork on this car? It could not be rust free after so many years. That paint actually looked fine to me. The body is in incredibly good condition.
The body work and paint was completed by the previous owner before I purchased it.
Did you consider rust proofing the outsides of those before installing them?
No
Did the seats soften up a little bit over time? They felt just a tiny bit firm during my test drive.
Never noticed any issues with the seats.
With the new OTA Update we have the Official Wireless Carplay. this is no longer needed yay!
That’s great news for sure.
They have a conversion kit for the fuel injection? I had no idea. Glad you're using fuel injection. Hope you get good power out of it.
I’m building my own FI system and will be selling it as a kit soon.
What an amazing engine. Oh wow, you're going to use the fuel injection? That's awesome.
I’m super excited
It's too bad that I don't fit into those cars. I'm 6'3" and when I sit in the spider, the top of the windshield as right at my eyes... sigh. I had one anyway 40 years ago.
That is not the stock crank pulley. Thanks for preserving these wonderful engines.
Correct, it’s my FI system pulley with a trigger wheel
It's great that people like you are preserving these cars. They were truly super exotic for the time. They are still exotic engines. That motor is so tiny!
Thank you
@@CarSpecGarage I wish I fit into their cars. Oh well. I'm not wealthy enough to play with them either. Good luck!
I'm amazed that you can get parts for these engines.
I know, but there are a bunch of companies that sell them.
You can fix that pulley, though it would take some work. You need a lathe and a welder.
Thought about doing it, but a used one is pretty cheap
@@CarSpecGarage OK, didn't know that. I'm so glad people restore these cars. I do not fit in them (6'3" tall) but I did have a '74 anyway. I loved it.
I don't think you can get the rear main seal installed with that steel plate already installed. I saw another video where he had to remove that plate to get the rear main seal put in.
You can, it’s tricky but can be done
Still an exotic engine so many years later. Look at how tiny it is! The block is so light, all from 1967!
You nailed it!
Did you PAINT the aluminum engine? WHY?!
Because I wanted to.
@@CarSpecGarage Your car. Good luck.
@@3ducs Thanks, my response was more of a joke. I’ve always painted engines.
How did you secure the vertical carpets to the sides and front of the trunk to prevent them from falling due to gravity
3m spray adhesive
Looks a lot like mine project. Only from ‘74 but same color. Good luck with your build
Thank you.
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Message me for any tools I might need on this build.
Thats cool, i'll be watching this build, just be careful with modernizing parts as if they look too new they look out of place, still enjoy custom touches and fabrication
Plan on still using the Spica air box to keep the look
Very excited to see this come together!
Thank you my friend!
How about a manual override in case none of the electronic ways work
Good question, not sure.