<![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000 - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000 - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> Where's Scaramanga?

CharlzR

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> I got the impression that the barrett-jackson people really were not impressed with the monster garage cars.

The best part was when they were selling the swamp buggy that the show had made out of an old corvette zr-1. They were going on about how you take a car that could be restored and give a bunch of guys a week to turn it into something like this and I guess it makes for some pretty interesting tv. Then later in the bidding for it the floor guy was going over the car and assuring everyone that the car was a rat, and was completely unrestorable.

The monster garage cars are cool, and probably have a market, but Barrett-Jackson was not the right event for them. If they had sold them at an auction that wasn't mostly based on classic cars. The price that the resto-mods go for should have been enough to clue them in.

The more modifications a car has in the Barrett-Jackson auction, the less it goes for.

Evil-Jeremy

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> @elwood: Little do you know, on the crew of many shows where something like this came up, they had an engineer or two on hand. If you can design and build something better on their budget and time, then go ahead.

TexanIdiot25: A/C is for for wusses. Real men have T-Tops

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> @elwood:
This particular monster garage creation WAS converted by a group of engineers...who were invited onto the show to build up and make a car fly.

vitrium

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> "Converted by Jesse James and Monster Garage" is code speak for "converted by people with no engineering knowledge and nobody qualified to do anything of the sort. Drive/fly/sail at your own risk." Seriously, Monster Garage is the biggest hack show I've ever seen, and Jesse James should be ashamed of himself for perpetuating the kind of shoddy design and construction that takes place there. Just because you can lay a nice weld bead doesn't mean you're qualified to design anything, especially not something that someone's life may depend on\.

elwood

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> Man, the guy who picked up the Trophy Truck got an asinine deal! Just under 40k for a truck that costs well over 150-200k to build.

TexanIdiot25: A/C is for for wusses. Real men have T-Tops

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> @smart42: Personal-PCH fishing at BJ? Classy.

kleinlowe

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> @smokyburnout: rtfa!

smokyburnout

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> Hummm....45K for this one off car/puddle jumper is chump change, the price of a fully dressed mid line Infinity or Lexus. Couldn't take that long to unbolt the wings and tail section, make them into lawn furniture and have a WW1 German painted Panoz.

If that DIY project fails and goes horribly wrong, slap a Shelby badge on the hood, and call Ron Pratte, then you will make ten times you money and still have some pretty hot looking lawn chairs as souvenirs.

smart42

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> @GizFanAlpha: i seem to remember it flew, but only in a straight line... but this was after i stopped watching monster agare regularly, so i'm not sure.

smokyburnout

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> Oof. Why would someone BUY this? Monster Garage and that motorcycle show are the 2 most overrated tv shows in history. The new Knight Rider notwithstanding.

Papercutninja

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> @Novaload: Probably something like the conditions on the batmobile from a while back. Namely, that it not be driven on public roads or operated anywhere, etc, as a legal shield to Discovery et al.

dh86sj

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> @camp6ell: I guess they should have gone with a shelby product instead of a Panoz. Ron Pratte probably would have bought it up for half a mil if today's purchases are any indication.

Rishi

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> loving that they took $100k car, threw another probably $100k at it and ended up with $45k. that's a sub-prime investment right there.

camp6ell

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> I think controlled flight as we perceive it is not really possible. But flight as in a literal interpretation was accomplished. But the landing could be considered controlled flight into terrain.

Duffman

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> I hope Snoopy doesn't get hurt.

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> I highly doubt this thing will actually fly.

gadgetfanatic

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> I saw this thing on tv a few hours agom still don't believe it.

gadgetfanatic

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> I thought Jesse's 10 minutes of fame were over years ago.

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> Okay, so what happens when Snoopy arrives piloting his Sopwith Camel doghouse and shoots down the Red Baron in his Panoz Esperante...? Will Barrett-Jackson offer a refund...? Can we all go out for root beer...?

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

]]> <![CDATA[Barrett-Jackson: Panoz Esperante Flying Car Takes Off for Only $45,000]]> Wonder what the "special conditions" are-- IQ test and Rabies check?

NovaloadMissesPolar

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