[MosportGreen66]

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Ever notice that EVERY year for a week after the B-J auction ends there are countless threads noting many examples of deception, fraud, and outright lies? Yet people still have the guts to say that B-J "sets the tone" for prices for the upcoming year...In my opinion B-J is nothing more than a big joke, a car show at best, and less "real" than pro-wrestling....has been for years. I'd also bet most of the "well bought" cars weren't actually bought at all.

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Joe, I agree. BJ is a car show. Nothing more, nothing less. To me, it sets no market value.

Barrett Jackson is a wonderful for people who have very deep pockets for purchasing cars. It is the best car show in the world. Period, end of story. Even if you do not buy a single car, just being there to watch the action, collect some free-goodies and watch the auction is enough for you to understand the how the system works. Steve Davis, for example, must have said the following 1,000 times this past week. "Blue chip car, Investment car, collector starter car." After a while it became down right embarrassing to listen to. The ZL1 auction was a JOKE! Reggie and Holub were bidding the car up to 300k while whispering behind the podium/microphone. The winning bidder of the car was like a marionette bidding on that car.

Schonye- to answer your question from the perspective of someone who was on stage for the Yenko/ZL1 auctions, I do not know the legality of the auction, but IMO, the only pictures that I would be interested in seeing are pictures of the rebody-hidden vin swaps, tags etc. Barrett Jackson is not a forum for selling cars with hi-pedigree. That with why Mecum, Gooding, and Russo-Steel exist. While there were many no-question #1 condition cars with paper to back it up, we saw more restamps, clones, fake tagged muscle cars in one weekend than I want to admit. But I also think the buyers this year were smarter with money than ever before.

At Barrett Jackson there is no test driving, no formal inspection, barely even an opportunity to check numbers, pads, engine codes/castings or cowl tags. BJ will always remain the place to sell a questionable car why? Because sellers can! I had a great laugh when a fellow on stage with a '70 440 Cuda was on his cell phone, checking the welds in the 1/4, while he was bidding. Talk about inspection on the fly.

While we can beat up Craig Jackson and Steve Davis for being gut-wrenching, money hungry business men, the charity work they do is really top notch. And while I hate to admit how many times I turned around to comment on how utterly pathetic the two sounded when they complimented a phony or fake car with the coined "blue chip investment" or "collection starter quality" who else can raise over $1,000,000 in one night (in this economy) for charity?

I'll let someone else talk now.

-Dan