This Week on Hagerty Marketplace: The Stingray, a Rare Land Cruiser, and a (Not Buick) Century

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.

This week on Hagerty Marketplace showcases two uniquely divergent classics from the 1970s, plus a forgotten prewar icon from Hupmobile that shares a name with famous Buick. And that car alone ensures we shall march to the beat of a different drummer, moving forward with a “hup, two, three!”

1931 Hupmobile Century Eight Model L Sedan

Sold for $9,095

While the Hupp Motor Car Company was one of many turn-of-the-century automotive startups seemingly lost to the sands of time, some of its vehicles are a bit more than just historical footnotes. The Century Eight Model L sedan is a traditional luxury vehicle, made right before Hupp Motor tapped Raymond Loewy to make a sleeker sedan called the Cyclefender.

This Hupmobile is powered by a 90-horsepower straight-eight engine, an upgrade from the six-cylinders found on many other examples of the brand. This example was sold in survivor condition, as it remained within the original owner’s family for a whopping 85 years. The classy Hupmobile was in running condition, and its rear cabin sported extras like a rope bar, a footrest, window shades, and vintage upholstery that presents itself in excellent condition.

1979 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ43

Sold for $33,170

For those who needed a bit more room to go with the offroad prowess of the Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser, the rare FJ43 offered a little more wheelbase and rear overhang. Many FJ43s were imported to South America, and this particular example came to the United States via Colombia just last year.

Presented with under 23,000 kilometers (true mileage known), this example sports a bevy of LED lights, an aftermarket winch, 15-inch steel wheels with 35 x 12.50-inch tires, and an uprated audio system with Pioneer speakers. Aside from a non-functional air-conditioning system, this FJ43 presents well and will likely delight its new owner, who will surely have the only one on the block.

1972 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe

Sold for $28,890

This year in C3 Corvette history may not set everyone’s heart aflutter, but a red Stingray coupe with a small-block, a four-speed manual transmission, side pipes, and desirable options like power steering and power windows will always command attention wherever it goes. The motor’s output may have been reduced to 200 horsepower, but much of that reduction came from the more realistic adaption of SAE net calculations.

Model year 1972 was the last of chrome bumpers on both ends of the C3 Corvette, and as such it can be considered the last gasp of style and performance before the Malaise Era further enhanced safety at the expense of acceleration. This Corvette was listed as being in driver condition, with minor wear in the expected places, which is par for the course on a 1970s car with roughly 62,000 miles on the odometer. But since this is a Chevrolet Corvette, finding replacement parts for these issues will be simple and reasonably priced.