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Black Cherry Chevy

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Old Ford

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0538.jpg

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A shot for Mr. 70!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0537.jpg

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Cool Custom

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0535.jpg

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Big Block Corvette low angle shot

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0533.jpg

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Old Car Row...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0532.jpg

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Custom Motorcycle

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0531.jpg

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Okay....Is this what Charlie bought??

Front

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0529.jpg

Front/Side

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n_DSCF0530.jpg


Okay I'm all in...all done...sold to the highest bidder...oh wait a minute https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/confused.gif

This concludes the Barrett-Jackson saga. Again, it was nice to meet all the people from this site.

As 427TJ says... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gifx100!

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Bruce have to thank you again...really nice job with the pictures!!!!! BTW Charley your fired...Bruce has been promoted to the man in the field at BJ.....

Bud.

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Yep...thats Charleys ride...Thanks Bruce https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Excellent job Bruce! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

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Thanks Bruce...awesome pics... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

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Dang, Bruce. I coulda just stayed here and saved some $$! Nice meeting you.... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

Ed

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I like being fired... But if I had been busy taking pics I might not have bought the 32. https://www.yenko.net/attachments/120134-P1010074.JPG

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That a 6-71 Chaz?

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looks like a 4-71 ..is that a Ford flatty with arduns ?? I thought it was a 392

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Nice car Charley. Congrats! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Description of the car from BJ web site..... COLOR - ORANGE PEARL
TRANS - 3SPEED
CYLINDERS - V8
ENGINE SIZE - 278



FOLKS THERE'S A NEW MOVIE JUST CAME OUT - MILLION DOLLAR BABY. WELL BARRETT-JACKSON HAS THERE OWN MILLION DOLLAR BABY. PROBABLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 32 FORD EVER BUILT. BUILT IN SAN JOSE CA. IN 1952. CARS WITH PROVEN HISTORYS LIKE THIS CAR HAS ARE USUALLY TRADED PRIVETLY. WE FEEL VERY LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO BRING THIS ONE TO YOU. AN ARDEN EQUIPPED BLOWN ORIGINAL 32 FORD. IT DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS. TRY OAKLAND TWICE IN THE 50`S AND AGAIN IN 97. RACED AS A FUEL BURNING ROADSTER IN THE LATE 50`S BY THE WELL KNOWN DRAG RACER AL CEBRIEN. PARKED IN A GARAGE FOR 34 YEARS, THEN DISCOVERED AND BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AS YOU SEE IT HERE. WINNER OF OVER 20 BEST IN SHOW AWARDS AND FEATURED ON NATIONAL TV MANY, MANY TIMES. IT SHOULD BE IN A MUEUM. THIS IS THE BEST OF THE BEST.

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Orange you glad you weren't our photographer again this year..
Very Nice. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif

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Thanks VERY much Bruce! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif
Your coverage helped me a lot (since I don't even have cable). Still trying to figure out those 409 car prices. Wish I knew more about them to better judge the value.

By the way, if anyone wants to get a good handle on the actual high bid (minus fees), just divide the listed final sold price by 1.16. It will be close, since BJ apparently "rounds off" some things. We also don't know which buyers were AZ residents, which would add another 5 or 6%.

Verne.

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Charley...that was the buy of the show....cars with that cool history don't show up often...

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Razzmatazz Roadster-------------- https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif

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ditto, those are great pics. thanks for posting them enjoyed everyone of them. that motion vette was unbelieveable. my favorites the 66 big tank, the motion vette, 67 malibu, white copo, ls6 conv. the dan gurney trans am racer and the new gt40. would have loved to have seen a 69 zl1 and an 02 zl1 or dh car go across and some yenko cars. thanks again

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Well, I flew back to WA state from Arizona last night. What a great time at the BJ auction. I was there all 5 days and saw some fantastic cars and met some great people. Not just members from this site, but some others.
I was also there to witness the 3 million dollar Olds F-88 concept car that sold on the block. Nice car, but I was very dissapointed in the sale price of the 1 of 1 58 retractable hardtop Vette that followed, 350k.
It was a pleasure to meet Bruce, Larry, Bill Pritchard, Dave, Rich, George and his wife Karen, and their daughter, who is very grown up for her age. And last but not least, Charley. A great bunch of people. Thanks again George and Karen for letting me sit in the 69 BM Vette, and let me cross the rope to sit and BS with you two. I was hoping that the BM vette would have gone for 3-400k, but it was obvious that alot of people there didn't know what a BM Vette was, yet alone what BM stood for. A few people came up to me while sitting next to the BM vette to ask me those questions.
Oh yeah, I also talked with Mr. Murphy a few times, the owner of the BM Vette since 71. What a nice and courteous man.
I also talked with Boyd Coddington for a little while. Tim Allan walked right in front of me, so did Michael Anthony, the bassist for Van Halen. Of course Reggie Jackson was there. Once again, had a great time and for sure I will be returning next year, just hope we have better weather. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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I forgot about that retractable Tony...it was kind of surprising...

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I was told the retractable hardtop Vette was not a GM built car. That would explain the price.

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I just finished re-watching 3 days of this auction on Videotape.The 3 mill episode gets better & better everytime I rewind it.
You can literally see the point of intimidation,when the two bidders size eachother up in the Very begining...
Ferrari dude lays low at first,then at the 600K mark just goes Freakin Ballistic,& lets his money speak for him. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/shocked.gif
His performance was so overly dramatic,it would have made Sylvester Stallone jealous."Where's Tim,..Where's Tim?" https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

Once it was all over & the car rolled away,they went onto bidding the next car,but it all seeemed so tame.How do you follow that,even if that Corvette did bring 350K.

Charley looks better in slow mo... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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Thats the only speed the ole guy knows.

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I was told the retractable hardtop Vette was not a GM built car. That would explain the price.

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Well that makes sense then. I didn't hear anybody mention that. Still a very nicely done Vette though.
A couple of people told me that the owner of the F-88 concept car was on the phone when the bidding started, pumping up the price. True of false? Not sure.
I tell you one thing, I sure saw some beautiful women at BJ. Never saw so much leather at one event. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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The Dude in the Ferrari hat that won the 3 mil car was not the buyer. The buyer was sitting in the second row right behind me. He told me it was going in his Museum in Colorado. The idiot in the Ferrari hat was probably his sweep boy. We heard later the Ferrari hat guy went to the bar and had all kinds of women hitting on him . Ha ! They thought he just dropped 3 mil on a car. The real buyer owns the Discovery channel.

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Discovery Channel,just announced on TV,that they're having an emergency fund drive--------

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Guys this is what I heard was the deal with Ferrari Dude. The Museum in Colorado is the Gateway Museum (Gateway Computers) the guy in the Ferrari hat was the brother of the founder of Gateway.

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Ferrari dude = Alan Lewenthal
Gateway Founder = Ted Waitt

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"I was ready to keep going," said Lewenthal, who represented a group of Colorado buyers who are setting up a car museum in Gateway, Colo. "I just wanted to buy that car for the museum. It's the best concept car in the world."

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Quoted from azcentral.com. The Arizona homepage.

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Here is a full story .

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The Dude in the Ferrari hat that won the 3 mil car was not the buyer. The buyer was sitting in the second row right behind me. He told me it was going in his Museum in Colorado. The idiot in the Ferrari hat was probably his sweep boy. We heard later the Ferrari hat guy went to the bar and had all kinds of women hitting on him . Ha ! They thought he just dropped 3 mil on a car. The real buyer owns the Discovery channel.

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His brother founded Gateway. Patrick

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So that article confirms It was John Hendricks and his Wife Maureen that were sitting behind me. "John S. Hendricks is the Founder and Chairman of Discovery Communications,
Inc. Mr. Hendricks created the Discovery Channel which launched on satellite
in 1985 and now reaches over one billion total subscribers in 160 countries
around the world. Other services of Discovery Communications include TLC,
Animal Planet, The Travel Channel, The Science Channel, Discovery Health
Channel, Discovery HD Theater and numerous digital networks."

Nothing to do with Ted Waite or Gateway computers.

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Great job Bruce. Enjoyed meeting and talking with some of the Yenko.net members and soaking up that Scottsdale sunshine. Only problem was, that sunshine was in liquid and frozen form! We call it rain and hail here in Iowa.....

20-20 hindsight: Should have bought the Lamar Walden white COPO for $65k a year and a half ago........

The LS6 convert that sold for $324k with buyers premium had a build sheet missing the corner that has the VIN. ?????!!!

Dave

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The LS6 convert that sold for $324k with buyers premium had a build sheet missing the corner that has the VIN. ?????!!!


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How convenient!!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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I saw the Lamar Walden COPO sell for low 40's at a Mecum auction in 2000. I think you were offered the car in the high 30's shortly before the auction, Charley. The LS6 Chevelle convertible was a different car than the one that sold last March in Florida. It was optioned nearly identical, though. Both were originally bench seat with auto transmission.
The retractible was an outside project done by a Chevrolet engineer. The car sat begging to be sold for years at Proteam and they finally restored it. I would guess they have owned this car for about seven years if not more.

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Pretty amazing how much prices on supercars have gone up in 4 years. Makes you wonder where they will be in 4 more years...I guess time will tell.