Went with a friend to LV the the auto auction. Great fun, but lots of sitting.
Watched a lady in the front row buy 5 cars, all were over $100K, and we didn't sit there the whole time. Funny thing was she looked like my friend's wife.
One of my favorite cars previewed was a 45th anniversary Iacocca Mustang, a 2009 worked over with racing, well, everything was racing, including the 550 HP engine. It looked almost stock from the outside. Sold for $352,000.00. The most expensive was a Cobra, all original, 289. Went for $400,000 or 440,000. You can see all the cars on the Barrett Jackson website. I'm considering going/bidding next summer in Orange County. My Rav lease will be nearly up and I saw several cars under 30,000, rebuilt everything. Like a 230 SL for about 17K. Legal Bill, there were a few Austin Healys right about $100K.
Yesterday was nine years on S2K! Woopeeee.

 

on the stars and the auction.

Did you sit on your hands so that you didn't bid on the 100K vehicle in error?

 

Lainey, we were up in the first section off the floor, right where they turned the cars (on a big turn-table) to drive them offstage. Great view, but no worries about accidental bidding. The bidders (who paid $400 for the privilege, except Jay Leno) were on the main floor.

 

I watched the weekend auctions on Speed. It's like sitting on the front row at an auto museum display. There were some interesting bargains, but some of the American iron sold for exorbitant sums, IMO. Morris, we saw the lady you mentioned -- buying car after car. She seemed to know what she was doing there. She passed on a number of cars after the bidding got too steep.

 

Did they mention her name? I think I want to marry her.

 

^ and about that 230 Sl, I see something similar in my future. those.

Happy S2KI BDay!

 

I spent a few hours at the huge Hershey AACA event last Friday.....most time in the Car Corral. In addition to a lot of 50s Detroit Iron and real 20s/30s custom Classic stuff (Packards, Lincolns, etc), there WERE a lot of A-H 3000....plus a few M-B, but literally only 1 Porsche (authentic 356).

Like a good friend, I photographed 'em for LB but haven't downloaded 'em yet from my camera. The asking prices ranged between 50k and 85k for a primo item. If this thread is still alive and well, I'll post 'em here in a day or two....

 

Happy S2Ki birthday, Morris! I've watched those auctions before. Some pretty cars.

 

Personally I would never ever consider buying a car at an auction unless the price was so low that people would be saying that's unbelievable - you got it for nothing. I went to one at Kruse in Auburn IN a few years back. They had a couple MGAs, a car I have some familiarity with. They were both poorly prepared cars that had wrong motors, etc. but 'looked' good to the unaware and both went for prices that were way more than they were worth. For me, I want to meet the owner, see service records, drive the car, and give it a complete inspection.

 

That would be fun, but I would be jealous the whole time not being able to bid on any of the cars that I REALLY wanted...