Anyone know who OrangeCountyChopper is...

[Xplantdad]

Bill, yep...They are on their way as we speak! Should be here on Monday

I bid the most that I was willing to pay the first time around...and lost.

Things worked out for the best anyways

[427TJ]

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I bid the most that I was willing to pay the first time around...and lost.

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I read something about auctions that sticks with me: "The winner is often the one who comes in second."

[njsteve]

You can always fight fire with fire: www.auctionsniper.com I've used it for years as a time saver since I cant be around the computer all the time. You set your max bid and it puts it in at the last minute so that way you dont get into a bidding war with 6 days to go. I've only lost an item when it was well over what my sanity (or my wife) would let me pay.

[Xplantdad]

Thanks Steve. Since I'm "new" to the whole ebay thing...I need all the help that I can get (this certainly applies to everything else, too )

[Xplantdad]

Wow...here's some interesting info that I found while searching the internet on Cone Chevrolet...

First, here's some information on a famous "fast" car that came out of Cone Chevrolet

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Old timers will remember the name of Hayden Proffitt. Haden was a transplanted Texan living in Garden Grove, CA. Hayden had been around the drag scene at Santa Ana since the very beginning, with a variety of cars, including a C/Gas Chevy dragster and a nice '37 Chevy B/Gasser. In 1961, Hayden went to work for Mickey Thompson and it wasn't long until he was driving the '61 Pontiac 421 S/S. Hayden was a killer with a stick shift (only a 3-speed back then). In 1962, Hayden installed a 421 engine into a compact Pontiac Le Mans for the first A/FX car. Hayden won the Super Super Stock (SS/S) class and the A/FX class at the '62 NHRA Winternationals at Pomona. Hayden departed M/T in the middle of 1962 and put together a 409 Chevy, running out of Cone Chevrolet. With this car, Hayden took S/S honors at the NHRA Nationals that year.

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And a picture of that car. Notice Cone Chevrolet/Bill Thomas/Hayden Profitt...way cool!

Where's Verne?

[Belair62]

[Xplantdad]

Now THAT is cool!

[firstgenaddict]

I also only enter bids at the last possible second in order to keep out of bidding wars and to minimize shill bidding against me. It is hard for some one to push a bid up when you enter it at the last second.