![]() Purchaser accepts a lot when he makes a bid.All sales are final.ģ. The bidder offering the highest bid accepted by the Auctioneer shall be the purchaser of the offered lot, and no purchaser shall retract his bid. The Auction will be conducted by offering the items by lot, either individually or in groups. By using the bid number, the bidder acknowledges he has received, read, and understands and agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of the auction either on the bidders agreement or posted at the auction facility.Ģ. All prospective buyers must be at least 18 years old and are required to register with Bar None Auction prior to bidding. If you got this running for regular outings, you’re going to get stares everywhere you go! This looks like a really cool acquisition for not a lot of coin.1. The odometer reading is 29,000, but that’s probably turned over. With all the decals and special touches that the seller went to the trouble of adding, this thing looks every bit the dinosaur chaser he had intended. ![]() Rust is at a minimum and there are a few little dings, but nothing you wouldn’t get from dodging dinosaurs. Having stayed out West for 35 years, the body of this Cortez is fairly good. Though it had been sitting for several years, the seller got it to fire up and run with a minimum of effort and it still does though it needs some attention, like new brakes. The previous owner had jettisoned the original six-cylinder in favor of a 500 cubic inch Cadillac V8, so the transport should be a lot more powerful than in its early years. So, he proceeded to transform its graphics in great detail to look the part. ![]() When he saw the Cortez which its Plain Jane appearance (older pic also provided), he envisioned this as a motorhome that fictional Jurassic Park founder John Hammond would have been tooling around it. Then it moved to Tennessee which is where the seller found it after the Clark had been sitting for years after the owner’s death. This motorhome spent most of its life in New Mexico before 2000. Clark sold the business in 1970 and a group of Cortez owners would keep the production afloat through 1978. Powerplants were borrowed from whatever was already commercially available. A front-wheel-drive transaxle was used in the Cortez to increase interior headroom while decreasing height. These were Class-A motor coaches which are built as recreational vehicles, whereas Class-B motorhomes are built in a van body, and Class-C motorhomes add a recreational vehicle coach body to a truck chassis and cab. This one-of-a-kind is available here on Barn Finds for $5,000.įor whatever reason a forklift manufacturer would go into the motorhome business, that’s what Clark did in 1963. So, if you’ve got an inch to go dinosaur hunting and don’t mind a bit of mechanical work, check this interesting vehicle in southwest Virginia. The seller found this 1965 Cortez in decent shape and transformed its looks to that of a vehicle you might have seen in Jurassic Park – on the right side of the electrified fence, that is. The Cortez was popular, perhaps because it was smaller than some of the land yachts out there. built motorhomes in the 1960s? They got out of business in the 1970s and others carried to torch through the end of the decade.
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