Really??? This considered stupid or awesome?

1965 Shelby Mustang Pool table by Costco for $11k!

https://www.costco.com/1965-shelby-mustang-car-pool-table.product.100425969.html

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I cannot say that it's awesome because it comes across as stupid. What say you?

Stupid.  As a pool player I can see it affecting your stance on shots.

Do not like, but I'd like to see a picture of one of those in a garage parked next to the real thing.

The only way that becomes cool is if someone puts a motor in it and makes it drivable.

If they sell them and the company making them turns a profit, then it's awesome. 

As a pool table, it probably sucks. 

Only cool when Speedycop turns one into a LeMons car...

Stupid in the extreme.

I mean, it is WAY more useful than the average project mustang. Both as a pool table and also as a place to store boxes of other junk on top of.

Well Costco sure knows it's demographics.
 

that said, You can also buy a $30,000 Porsche writing table .... 

Was it advertised in the Onion? Did the press release go out on April 1st? 

In reply to mr2s2000elise :

I'd rather buy a $30,000 Porsche and write on it.

Ohh the lows that the Shelby licensing people will take the Shelby name to.  I don't mind it at all as a car that has been turned in to a pool table but somehow that it is a Shelby or really has anything to do with Shelby other than some of the purchase price goes to the Shelby Corporation is just stupid.

Best use of a '65 Mustang I've seen....  Waiting 10 years for it to show up at Barrett Jackson with numbers matching balls.

Anything for people to waste money on 

The 1% wannabe's will have one in their 5000sf man cave, because they don't actually shoot pool and realize this is horrible as a pool table.

The porsche writing table, now that looks good!  if it was $300, not $30,000.  

I did you see my racetrack bathroom sink idea?    

Cool if you dropped a zero.  Maybe.

I'm obviously the outlier,  but I don't hate it.  I shoot pool every weekend and have my own table,  but try not to take myself too seriously.  I don't think this would impact my play too awful much, but I wouldn't pay 11k for any pool table.

In reply to 02Pilot :

 

The only way that becomes cool is if someone puts a motor in it and makes it drivable.

Crowd run over by pool table. News at 11.

Does it come with numbers-matching balls?  Is that the original triangle?  Has it been re-felted?  Chili recipe included?  So many questions...

I think it is really cool. I wouldn't own it myself, but I think it is really cool. I could definitely see it in a trendy bar. 

This has also been available for years. I first remember seeing it in a catalogue when I was a teenager.

So how long before it becomes a shelf like most pool tables and 1st gen Mustangs?

02Pilot said:

The only way that becomes cool is if someone puts a motor in it and makes it drivable.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iF2tSUrafGo?rel=0

 

nimblemotorsports said:

The 1% wannabe's will have one in their 5000sf man cave, because they don't actually shoot pool and realize this is horrible as a pool table.

The porsche writing table, now that looks good!  if it was $300, not $30,000.  

I did you see my racetrack bathroom sink idea?    

So do the lights work?  :-)

The only Shelby that will depreciate with time?

I mean, don't most pool tables end up on CL or Marketplace with description "we're moving and can't take this with us" or "takes up too  much space and my wife just puts stuff on it for storage" with a price of $500, 5 years after bought new for $5000?

Car part furniture is dumb unless it's an engine block under a coffee table. That's where I draw the line. Buzz off with your Mustang pool tables, truck tailgate benches, and fake engine block grills.