Barrett Jackson Las Vegas

[Les Quam]

I just got back from the auction and the quality of the cars overall in general was really below average. Some of the cars mentioned as bargains on this thread upon closer personal examination were market correct even for a few years ago. They simply were not up to the standards one would expect.

The lack of quality reflects a couple things in my opinion. First the no reserve format is killing BJ in terms of consigning great cars. Who wants to take the chance in this market with a special car at a no reserve auction? Secondly for whatever reason you choose there were simply not a lot of buyers or spectators for that matter at the auction. Saturday night was like a ghost town for an auction. Lets just say parking was not an issue and parking most any Saturday night at any major strip casino is tough. I was walking around at 7PM tonight (Saturday) and it looked like it was closing and everyone was packing up to leave? The place was empty. Lots of shocked sellers as well. Very few did well.

[m22mike]

Les
Your comments are just what I saw on the tube...alot of empty seats.
I think this event was a bust
Oh yea, note to Steve...your in a building, it is ok to loose the shades, we already know your cool

Mike

[Chateau Slate 66]

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Oh yea, note to Steve...your in a building, it is ok to loose the shades, we already know your cool

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Thank you!! Man, that looks stupid! Many of the front line guys for both B-J and Mecum think the auction is as much about them as the cars.

[m22mike]

Did anyone notice the 69 Ralley Green X Ram Camaro go for $100K plus ?
Interesting read going on at CGR

http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=4432.0



Mike

[Xplantdad]

Wow...

[427.060]

That doesn't look good. Ron Pratt bought the car for $125K plus fees. Hopefully someone will let him know the true history if the car.
James

[DarrenX33]

Amazing! Wonder how much my real one is worth?

[Bill Pritchard]

Something seems funny. We have seen the caliber of vehicles Ron Pratt has bought in the past....certainly no lightweights. Now he's buying an *LS6* Chevelle ragtop with an a/c dashboard, and *Z28* Camaro that MacNeish has supposedly put an asterisk with its pedigree? Has he gotten so comfortable with B-J that he's let his guard down?

I, too, noticed the virtually empty hall last night during the auction, and the shameless badgering of people on the 'charitable cause' vehicles Amy Sparks-Lasseter leading the non-crowd in singing "Happy Birthday" to a deceased child seemed rather tasteless to me.

[shor]

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singing "Happy Birthday" to a deceased child seemed rather tasteless to me.

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you have got to be kidding me....
does anyone have a video link to this?
why would they do something like that??

[Late BrakeU2]

What's the old adage about 99% of the answers to life's questions are money? Nothing different here. I'm fairly certain that BJ has a multi year contract with speed to air these events,and this one had been planned well in advance of the economic downturn. When the premier and passionate F1 commentator Bob Varsha misses doing color for a potential championship deciding F1 race for an auction,that should tell you what it's all about Alfie- contracts.

If I were going to put my car in a BJ auction,factoring all associated costs of transportation,lodging,amount of qualified buyers etc I would most certainly wait three months till Scottsdale for obvious reasons. Don't know about you fellers but i'm officially tired of the sunglass steve and Craig show,Carroll Shelby signed anything,and rambling diatribes when the bidding stalls. I realize it's a revenue stream for many people and does great things for charities but it's just old. Those two looked like they were on suicide watch after the MG went through.

Good thing Ron Pratt was there(hint)