It looked like the classic auction scenario of two people wanting it, badly! It just kept going on and on. At one point the auctioneer yelled out "Go find some of that material (mod top) we're gonna put it on all of the cars!" :)

The guy that won it was the same guy that got all of the cut-away engines too, among other things.

Who’s buying repro Yenko signs for 26 grand?

I was thinking , I don't remember seeing that sign at Yenko

I think Yenko Chevrolet had some neon signs in the windows but was well before 1968 when that emblem came out

Looks like Dave Steinberg's sign... https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?p=752260

Damn. Somebody wanna buy mine at half price ?

I thought this was very high but then again if you guys saw what I bought and the prices I paid you’d say the same thing lol!!

The culprit
 

Ed Meyer showed Steven Juliano the forbidden fruit......and he was hooked

Ed was who told Steven to start collecting all that stuff. We are talking paper materials etc. The stuff that gets thrown away. He didn't really care about neon signs etc because they last forever where the paper stuff falls apart, gets tossed etc. Steven then went on to spending years crawling thru dealership attics etc.

I can relate. :)

Any idea what the total sales amount was for the memorabilia?

Who is Ed Meyer, I've heard the name mentioned before.

I'm wondering the same thing. Saw some HIGH prices on stuff that's for sure!
I found it interesting that the buyers premium was 23%!

I placed a few bids on some of Stevens stuff,but lost.
While registering to bid,I found out if I won anything sitting at home and bidding through the keyboard,I'd have to pay a 20% buyers fee..(18% if I go and bid in person)
plus a 7% Indiana tax,that EVERYONE has to pay regardless where you live,and a 3% credit card fee if I paid with such,=30% of the amount bid right there.
Plus they have to ship the item to me at their discretion,so there's another significant amount right there too.
I am honestly glad I didn't win anything,but I just had to bid on the stuff I wanted to own.

Ed is a Shelby diehard that lives for cars. If you wanted someone to look at a Shelby for you he would be one of the best guys. He went nuts when I bought the Supersnake off of Ebay. He was trying to get Shelby guys to buy it and instead the only guy that would pull the trigger was me, a guy he considers a Chevy guy. Been bitching about it ever since.:haha:

To be clear, this sign WAS NOT part of the Steven Juliano Estate offering.

Steven wouldn't have let that sign within a mile of his place.

Bashton

Thanks Charlie. I believe I've seen him referred to as an expert on BOSS 429's?
Is he a big memorabilia collector or why did he suggest Steven buy the stuff?
I thought the Schwinn Krate bicycles were really cool, not sure how Steven found all this perfect NOS stuff!

Steven wasn't a Yenko fan Bob?

Heard it said that he only collected original stuff, not reproductions or fakes.

Ed is the Boss 429 oracle
69-70 Shelby oracle
69-70 CJ and especially SCJ Mustangs
The rest of Shelby's he knows simply because he's immersed in the blue oval Ford world
Also a Mopar fan

Steven was on a flight and Ed walked by to sit at the back of the bus, he was wearing a Ford shirt. He went back to talk to Ed and spent the rest of the flight in coach. They couldn't have been more different. The love of our silly old cars took over and these two nuts had one of the most incredible relationships in car world

Steven's daughter called him Special Ed and that is the name he is fondly known by in Ford world to this day

I know the pair wore out multiple vehicles doing what American pickers did before anyone knew what that was

One of the good guys

WOW, Cool story!

Somewhere is a thread I posted years ago when Steven had his party and we all finally got to see his stuff on display. Floor to ceiling the walls were full. Prototype (Fred) was one of the idiots that spent days with Steven laying out the posters etc on the floor to mirror just how it would all look on the wall. Then it was all attached to the walls with a ungodly amount of Velcro. How much Velcro was it Fred ?

Before the Velcro was the plywood.

There was an attempt to hang signs, clocks, etc. Steven got frustrated and had plywood put up over the drywall with plug ins everywhere, then you could hang anything, anywhere without worry of it pulling through the drywall (errrrr sheetrock as Steven called it, I'd never heard it called sheetrock, must be a NY thing).

As the walls were laid out on the floor Steven would be keep asking the size of the open areas and the colours around them and knew in his head of what he had in inventory that would fit in the open space and come out with something that would fit.

The Scat Pack girl with the kite, Sox and Martin drag parachute, 60's music area with orange shag rug and any animated sign made the place special to me.

The first time I went to Stevens house I remember seeing half a dozen cars and a big block Cobra CSX3329, he had an animated neon sign and I was just mesmerized by the reflection of the neon flickering on/off in the paint on the hood. The basement was silent and just hearing the clicking of the sign going on/off was super cool. I sat down on the white shock chairs (which demonstrated a good and bad shock) and almost fell over on the one with a bad shock.....I felt like such a dork.

When he first got the RTS Hemi Road Runner he was wondering how the hell he was going to figure out how to match the paint back to it's former glory. Then the rear spoiler was found preserved in a blanket and had all the original paint and colours on the car, another typical Steven story.

Memories....great memories.

Was referring more to the fact that it was a reproduction. When I sorted through everything, there was nothing Yenko related. A few Motion pieces and some great Chevrolet Sports Department items, but nothing Yenko.

Bashton