Cool, relatively cheap, collectible cars from Pebble Beach

• Auctioneers: Mecum

You might think this car is garish and ugly. If you do, you can be thankful we're not showing you the interior. (Brown and gold. Lots of gold.)

This car was part of an attempted revival of the Stutz brand in the 1970s and '80s. The Blackhawk was designed by the famed Virgil Exner, best known for his work with Chrysler. As with many of Exner's other famous cars, the prototype for this one was built by Ghia in Italy. Even the production car bodies were handbuilt while the engines and transmissions came from American cars such as, in this case, a Pontiac Grand Prix.

So-called "neo-classics," like this car, have a cult following but it isn't yet large enough to pull the cars' values up along with the rest of the collector car market, according to Hagerty Insurance.

Blackhawks were high-priced items in their day -- a list of Blackhawk owners reads like a show listing for the Vegas Strip in the '70s -- and, today, one in good shape can be worth $24,000 to $40,000, according to Hagerty Insurance.

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