This Week on Hagerty Marketplace: Cruisin’, Three Ways

Welcome to This Week on Hagerty Marketplace, a recurring recap of the week’s most noteworthy cars from the Hagerty Marketplace online auctions.

Here in Michigan, we’re eagerly awaiting the final throes of winter. Blue skies and warmer temperatures mean that classic-car owners can finally remove the cover on their treasured ride and unhook the Battery Tender. Long, slow days leave plenty of time for leisurely cruises. These three collectibles that sold on Hagerty Marketplace are a great example of the different flavors of cruising — in this case, low, loud, or lush. Which one suits you best? Let us know below.

Modified 1970 Chevrolet C10 Short Bed

Sold for $40,928

The C10 is handsome as-is, and it’s a great foundation for a timeless hot rod. Completely refurbished in 2014, and acquired by the seller in 2016, this one has been modernized yet retains its vintage character.

The 355-cubic-inch Chevy V-8 was swapped in just two years ago, and it’s been thoroughly breathed upon: Not only does it wear a Holley carburetor, new aluminum intake manifold, and newly ported heads, but the valvetrain also boasts roller rockers, bigger valves, and an aftermarket cam. A new radiator keeps everything cool, while the powerplant is backed by a three-speed automatic with Gear Vendors overdrive and exhales through Hedman Hedders and a dual exhaust. The truck has new sway bars front and rear, plus power steering and disc brakes all around. As if all that weren’t enough, it has a set of Dakota Digital gauges, an Alpine head unit, a Kenwood amp, a subwoofer. Extra Dynamat helps you enjoy that stereo all the more.

Someone got a great deal on this truck—the #2 (Excellent) value for a stock short-bed C10 with the 350 V-8 is $43,400, and this truck has far more than $3400 worth of work done to it.

1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt Tribute

Sold for $45,475

If a maroon 1964 Fairlane with 427 badges doesn’t hit you in the feels—well, you probably weren’t around to see one running 11-second quarter miles in the hands of Ford’s drag racing team. Known as “Thunderbolts,” these special Fairlanes were ordered without heaters or seam sealer, aggressively stripped of extraneous bits (passenger-side windshield wiper, sun visor), down to the NHRA’s minimum weight of 3200 pounds, and injected with big-block power courtesy of a high-rise 427 V-8. Only 10 maroon ones were built (Ford later built 117 white ones for homologation reasons).

The roughest red Thunderbolts cost $165,000 today; the best, $282,000. However, some enterprising fan realized he could build his own for a whole lot less. Whoever just bought this handsome Thunderbolt replica just won again—$45,475 for a street-legal, track-ready, righteous throwback to Ford’s drag-racing heyday? It will even run on pump gas. Yes, please.

1980 Rolls-Royce Corniche I Convertible

Sold for $32,100

If the truck and the Thunderbolt are a bit … brash for your tastes, allow us to present this stately, quiet, comfortable Corniche. At 6.75 liters, the displacement of its V-8 is nearly on par with that of the Thunderbolt, but this Rolls-Royce droptop could not be more different. This black-over-black beauty could use some TLC—in addition to some chips and scuffs in the paint, several bits in the interior need a bit of glue. But with a little attention, and a trip to the detailer, this Rolls would be a stately cruiser worthy of anyone’s estate.