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Believe It or Not: True Stories of Forgotten Classic Cars
May 22, 2016
Lambrecht Car Dealership
Ray P. Lambrecht once owned a Chevy dealership in Pierce, Nebraska for 50 years and finally shuttered his business when he decided to retire in 1996. Over those years, the little family run business had a few secrets left behind those doors. Seems every year since 1946 Lambrecht kept a car or two in his stash instead of putting them on the dealership floor.
Lambrecht Chevrolet Company opened in 1946, at a time when cars sold for around $600 to $800. It was owned and operated by Ray and Mildred Lambrecht with just one employee, a mechanic. While all the new, unsold stock were stored away in the warehouses, many of the dealership’s trade-ins were parked on the family farm outside of town which gradually grew into a massive collection.
In 2013, he decided to part ways with some of the vintage cars in his collection, 500 in total. Lambrecht didn’t exactly keep his cars in perfect running order, most were kept under plastic in kept in his old dealership collecting dust since 1996 while others were left out in the open on his farm.
Some of the notable cars that were sold at auction were:
- 1958 Chevrolet Cameo pickup, 1.3 miles, sold for $140,000
- 1964 Chevrolet Impala, 11 miles, brought in $97,500
- 1978 Corvette Indy pace car, 4 miles, sold for $80,000
- 1958 Chevrolet Apache 31 Series Truck, 5 miles, brought $80,000
- 1964 Chevrolet Impala, 4 miles, sold for $75,000
- 1963 Corvair Monza Coupe, 6 cyl. 4-speed manual, 17 miles – sold at $40,000
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