Barrett Jackson.....

[TimG]

We just drove back to Austin from Phoenix, hit some snow in Tuscon. The low VIN Camaro sold for $69,000 and they had $60,000 in the car from what I heard. Probably a break even endeavor for them. Wish I had noticed the "N" in the engine stamp, how interesting.

Real cars with real paperwork and real motors did well. On Sunday, the original owner green '69 400 horse Corvette went for over 100K and the '72 LT 1 with gobs of paperwork (real) also went for over 100K. I was amazed by the number of cars that were advertised with real paperwork, but the paperwork was not available for viewing with the car. We were anxious to look at some specific cars advertised with a window sticker, but none was to be found and owners were not to be found. I'd have to assume that the paperwork is not real in these cases. I did see some fake paperwork being presented with some cars. They did not qualify the paperwork as "original" but the description said the car had a window sticker or some other paperwork. This to me implies a real one. Let me tell you that if I brought a car to this auction that had an original window sticker, I'd blow it up and present it on a billboard so it could be seen from across the parking lot.
Yes, there were some good deals. After the cameras went off on Saturday the place got very quiet and the guys I came with bought what I consider to be one of the most original 1,800 mile Hemi cars on earth at a very, very respectable price. I would imagine the seller anticipated two times what this car brought.