This rare 1925 Pierce Arrow was frame off restored around 10 years ago to the tune of $75.000, ive or take a dollar or two.

A collector in Southern Arizona kept is as the center piece of his collection but he recently passed away and we are now selling the car.

The owner would drive the Pierce occasionally on outings and to shows, ometimes 100-200 miles on a nice day so it is a functioning and running and driving car.

The restoration is around 10 years old but the car is still in very nice to excellent condition. It is of course complete including the fitted trunk in the back.

The car is at our restoration shop in Down Town Phoenix and we welcome inspections before bidding on the car.

We have bought, old and restored old cars for the last 29 years here in Phoenix. During that time we have exported cars to around 25 countries all over the world and we can ship the car to pretty much any place on the globe, orth Korea might be a challenge but to most any other place anyway!

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AND PLEEEEESE DON’T BID UNLESS YOU ARE WILING AND ABLE TO PAY SHOULD YOU BE THE WINNING BIDDER.

A $2000 deposit is due within 24 hours of the end of the auction and the balance within 7 days.

On Jul-22-15 at 11:39:18 PDT, eller added the following information:

An eBay member just sent me an email to let me know he owned this Pierce 25-30 years ago.The car waspreviouslyin the Harrah's collection in Reno Nevada for many years and it was always an excellent original car.
In his mind it was a waste of a lot of money to restore a car that was already excellent!
Things like that happens, ou start off doing minor work and before you know it you are doing a frame off restoration.We have restored cars professionally for over 29 years in Arizona and 15 years before that in Europe and several of our own cars have received total restorations even though they really did not need to be restored.

On Jul-23-15 at 10:06:03 PDT, eller added the following information:

More information about this Pierce Arrow:"Seems from the attached the Pierce was bought new in Denver in 1925, old in Denver to persons unknown in 1952 after the original owner died, nd then sold to Harrah's from Wyoming in 1964 for $1 (another Harrah's document suggests they paid $950).

It was with a well known collector (can't remember his name) in Redding, A in the 1980s and then maybe went through Pat Craig in Stockton, A (owner of nearly every Pierce at some point, t seems). A fellow named Wayne Sheldon of Livermore, A had it in 1995 when I bought it for $12K.

I sold it to a Japanese guy who didn't speak English - he had just bought a house in Los Angeles formerly owned by Charlie Chaplin and then Mary Astor, nd was supposedly a movie buff and wanted an old car.

I believe it was he who perpetrated the completely unnecessary restoration.

I included a large amount of literature, anuals, istory etc. with the car

I have a lot of photos of the car when I had it.

Good luck with the sale - I'm happy to talk to the new owner.

Jim".

So it does look like we have the history of this Pierce since new, hat is a huge plus. As far as we know the Japanese owner in Los Angeles paid around $75.000 to have the car restored and the restoration was finished 10 or so years ago and he then sold it to the person in Southern Arizona who recently passed away.