This Week on Hagerty Marketplace: Four-, Six-, and Eight-Cylinder Collectibles

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

Our previous Marketplace highlights have included sports cars, motorcycles, and rare imports that were up for grabs. This time, we’ve found a similarly wide variety that sold over the last week, representing some staff favorites that we’d like to park in our own driveways. These three may be gone, but there’s a collectible convertible, station wagon, or pickup truck out there for everyone. Just keep looking.

1992 Ford Mustang LX convertible

Sold for $13,054

It’s hard to overstate how big an impact the Fox-body Mustang made in the automotive culture. It delivered the storied pony car out of the doldrums of the Mustang II era and ushered in the electronic fuel injection era, showing enthusiasts that modern cars could once again have exciting performance. The platform is still popular for grassroots racing, particularly drag racing, and a healthy aftermarket is offering parts to restore them to their original glory.

The later years of Ford’s Fox-body Mustang got the best fuel-injected, 5.0-liter V-8 the platform had to offer. The LX model was the sleeper, as it didn’t wear the GT’s flashy, distinctive taillights and body cladding, but still had the same 225 hp V-8 powerplant. This clean and understated LX convertible looks great with its well-kept red and white interior. It would be the perfect candidate to keep as is for weekend cruising duty or as a “day two” project with ’90s speed parts and a refreshed suspension to bring it back to, and even beyond, its original sportiness. Its sale price puts it almost exactly at its #3 (Good) value, which has dropped almost 20 percent from this time last year.

1971 Volkswagen Type 2 Station Wagon

Sold for $22,470

It must have been daunting to design a second model following the iconic “Bug,” but Volkswagen’s Type 2 Transporter was also a cultural phenomenon. The 30 hp model, eventually named Microbus, gained fans all over the world for its roomy, efficient design. Just don’t plan on getting anywhere in a hurry.

By 1971, Volkswagen’s Type 2 had doubled its output to 60 hp and was no longer known as Microbus, but as Station Wagon. Call it whatever you want, this flat-four-powered people mover still has the classic lines of the original Type 2, and it’s painted a minty two-tone that perfectly suits its instantly recognizable shape. This mildly modified Type 2 has Westphalia-style seating with a convertible rear seat that turns into a bed and a single rear-facing seat in the center, perfect for turning the cargo area into a dinette. While the multi-windowed variants of the early models can go for staggering sums, this surf/picnic wagon sold for a much more manageable price that fell between the #3 (Good) and #4 (Fair) values.

1950 GMC FC101

Sold for $22,470

The Big Three had a whole lot of work to do after World War II, as a booming U.S. economy was ready to snatch up new cars and trucks after subsisting on pre-war designs that had gone more or less unchanged since the 1942 models rolled out. GM’s answer to the truck demand was the one-two punch of the Chevrolet Advance Design and GMC New Design pickups for 1947 that offered Stovebolt inline-six power and a completely new look. Small changes were made each year, and this 1950 model marks the last of the single-piece door glass and a driver-side cowl vent, as 1951 models added vent windows.

This gorgeous GMC pickup still looks fantastic after a restoration was completed in 2012. Under the hood, its Stovebolt inline-six is clean as a whistle and looks ready to put in some yeoman’s work, hauling whatever you ask of it. Perhaps our favorite feature of this truck is the green and black two-tone paint. The combo looks great on the curvy step-side, lending a sophisticated air to the spartan workhorse. Its sale price fell just between #2 (Excellent) and #3 (Good). For those curious about the specification, F represented the 1947-1950 model range, C was for “conventional” as opposed to cab-over, 10 stood for half-ton, and 1 was for short bed configuration. An FC102 would have been a similar half-ton but with a long bed.