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Misc Forums => LSR General Chat => Topic started by: Seldom Seen Slim on January 29, 2011, 12:32:23 PM
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Here it (finally) is, ladies and gentlemen. It's an auction of this first edition of the book. It's a paperback, written by Mickey Thompson with Griffith Borgeson. while Griff may have done the writing per se and Mickey told him what to write -- it's mostly in first-person and a fine read. I took about 5 evenings to "preview" the book, and it lasted that long because I'd purposely put it down after reading for a while -- wanting to prolong the enjoyment and delay the finality of having finished it. It "ends" just before the 1963 Indianapolis race. The spine of the book is not cracked and the pages haven't been folded over or anything. Here are a few photos:
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It's a Signet Key Book, priced at 50 cents. Just inside, on the first page of paper, there's a penciled-in "15-", implying that $15 was the market price once, probably at a swap meet or something. I'm going to auction it to benefit landracing.com after settling with them Forum member that donated it for the site. He gets a (fixed part of the) price.
Bidding will continue 'til bedtime Monday -- to make sure that folks who might not visit this Forum on the weekend have a chance at it. The bidding will be open - post your bid right here on the Forum, and that'll allow one and all to see where the current price is.
$20 starting price, please. I'll wrap and ship it to the winner. Remember, this is an auction to benefit landracing.com, so bid early, bid high, and bid often -- the site's bankroll is at the wintertime low point and could use a nice shot in the arm.
Start at twenty bucks -- and stay tuned for the next auction, which will be a landracing.com t-shirt -- autographed by Andy Green.
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I must be early . . .
$20 (no laughing) - it will be a great addition to the collection.
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Another good cause to send money. :-)
$21.00 Going once, going twice.... :-D
Geo
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:-D $25.00
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i`m in for $27.50.... :-D
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Auction Sniper work on this thing? :roll:
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4,001 cents :cheers: USD Cents that is
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$45.00
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50.00
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$50.25
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can we set a minimum to raise the bids:P
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$55.00
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6001 cents...
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can we set a minimum to raise the bids:P
Doc
Just bid what you are willing to pay and then double it :wink: Kinda like a racing budget.. :-D :-D
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Put me down for $70 USD
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Seven thousand five hundred cents...and 1 more for old time sakes...7501 cents
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$100 but you have to throw in a Willie B pin.... and send 20 to Sheri... so that must make mine 80 :-D
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Why not auction this thing for the sequence you will recieve it then sign it with your car number and speed and ship it to the next one The highest bid has the option to be first or last. we should have the ability to raise a lot more money and a lot more will enjoy it
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I have that book and it is one of my most prized possessions. I have seem them sell on Ebay in the $150 range. This book is worth anything you can pay for it if you are a racing fan. LSR, drags, road race or Indy cars. Mickey did well in all these forms of racing.
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$110
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$125.00
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Don't forget, ladies and gentlemen, this auction runs through my bedtime tonight -- which I'll define as 9 PM EST. I appreciate very much the bidder's interest so far and wish to heck that I had multiple copies so each of you could get one.
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I like Sparky's idea, it would raise more for the site.
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I like Sparky's idea, it would raise more for the site.
We do these kinda auctions all the time on other boards. Just come up with something cool to auction and go for it. More money for Jon. I have some vintage CARtoons mags up on the HAMB right now that should send $100 to the site, I do this a couple times a year. I feel it is the least I can do to support a site and more fun than just a Debit card donation!
Here is my example, http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=553978 at any given time there are 3 or 4 auctions going. Thats a lot of coin that could help Jon if we do them here.
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Jon set the cut off date and anyone interested should have bid on it by tonight. Changing the rule would not be fair to the high bidder up to the cut off hour. If you want the book bid on it before 9;00 PM EASTERN tonight.
It is a great book.
:cheers:
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Another one and a half-hours or so 'til I declare the winner, who, as of right now, is Scott Bearisto of Canada and Saudi Arabia or Ethiopia or one of them there foreign countries that have oil. The bidding for the Mickey Thompson book stands at $125.00, the majority of which will be (thank you very much) a donation to landracing.com, and the rest will go to the donor of the book to help him cover the cost of his investment.
Keep bidding, folks -- unless you want Scott to get the book!
PS The voting on the poll - started for Sparky's idea of modifying the auction -- stands at 86 for "keep it the way it is" to 14 for changing it to Sparky's concept.
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130
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I'll toss an extra $20 into the pot towards the highest bidder at the close of auction. So, if Stainless' 130 stands, I will up his bid with my 20 to 150 :cheers:
Mweaning my 20 is for Stainless or whomever to get the book, a donation above the ending bid
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wasn't the bidding already over?
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I think Stainless was 5 seconds late on the auction. :-D :roll:
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Actually a little early based on Jon's hour and a half or so left, the cutoff is just before Jon goes to bed... around 9. Jon are you up to declare a wiener.... :roll:
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:-D
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so who got the book?
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I think Stainless was 5 seconds late on the auction. :-D :roll:
I think the guy from Canuckistan won the Auction based on the timer on this site.. :wink:
Either way thanks to the person that donated the book minus his cost...
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Stainless did you win? :? :? :?
Tom G.
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Oh, man, now you've got me wondering. I said I'd quit it at "bedtime", which became defined as 9PM EST (even though we ended up with company and didn't get to bed 'til darn near 10!
But my Forum timer reads an hour different -- so when a post shows a time stamp of 10.00.05 PM -- it really means 9.00.05 PM - I think. Crap - why don't you let me go to the house and see if the 'puter there reads difference from what it says here, just in case. I sure hate to turn down Stainless's extra few bucks, but by the same token -- if I should award the book to Scott and instead give it to Stainless -- maybe Scott'll never sell another oil rig (or whatever it is that he does) and we'll run out of oil really soon. I know Scott is enroute from Ethiopia to East Texas or something right now and doesn't have internet service 'til tomorrow -- so I've got a little while 'til I've gotta sort things out.
You'll know the result in a couple of hours, okay?
Geeesshhh, what a mess, hey?
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OK guys, this ain't ebay and I was in at 9... not 9:01, but Jon can declare the wiener and it won't matter to me whichever way it goes.
However, should Jon decide my bid was the winner, We will start another loosely based on Sparky's idea. If someone wants to read my book, go the the thread I will start on who wants to read the MT book, enter your name, the book will be yours for 2 weeks after it arrives. Your obligation will be to contact the next person via PM on the list and mail it via one of those PO priority envelopes (less than $5). Sounds easy, all you have to do to get your name in is post your name on the thread and then send Jon $25 or more and you will get t read the book. Same deal for everyone, if the book needs to ship to Australia, England, Denmark, wherever, it can go by 1st class for around the same shipping. It is all for a good cause, and hopefully I won't get to read it for a couple of years, when I have more time.
Incidentally, there is one on Ebay right now for a $250 buy it now....from a foreign seller.
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Geez, who woulda thinked that I'd have to try to nail down the end of the auction to the second? So here's the final decision -- and since the book is in my hot little hand, I get to make such decisifycation:
I said I'd end the auction at 9EST, and Stainless' bid is time-stamped 9 plus five seconds. So Scott wins. Dang, Stainless, I really like your idea of sharing it, too. I had thought of something like that while I was still reading it -- but the logistics (read: doing it) seemed a hassle, so didn't offer the idea.
Lesson learned, assuming I'll do another auction -- nail down the ending time using the Nat'l Bureau of Standards clock system - - and be ready for another interesting last-second "What? Why didn't I expect that?" issue.
Thanks to all that showed great support for this website of ours. I appreciate it very much.
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Well I guess my microwave internet connection is too slow for timing anything close, it was not on purpose, I just planned to look before it ended and enter the high bid, sorry to put you on the spot Jon.
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Thanks, Stainless. And again -- thanks to all. By the way, Scott has paid the auction price -m plus a nice bonus, thank you very much. All's done for now except I have to ship the book all the way to Canada. I think there's a sled dog race coming up around here soon, though -- so shipping ought to be easier.
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Well, I didn't bid I thought Stainless had it. But that's ok I'm sending you a $ or two anyway Jon.
Richard
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http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=thompson+borgeson&sts=t&tn=challenger&x=0&y=0
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Jon:
I have another idea for an auction item will forward details to you by PM and see if you like the idea.
Larry