B-J Auction; so who is the guy....

[LVCamaro]

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He was probably getting in that other bidder's face to see if he was a shill bidder or the real deal.

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lol...my friend Ron Pratte ended up with the bus...he's 5'7" standing up, or 7'11" sitting on his wallet. I think his bidder number was #0001

[427TJ]

Yeah, I noticed that the big guy was towering over your friend. That's probably why he jumped up on stage---so he could physically intimidate the smaller guy. I also noticed that your friend wound up with several awesome cars, including that white T-bolt.

[LVCamaro]

Ron lives in Phoenix now...so buyer's commissions and AZ sales tax had to be approaching $650,000 combined...yeowch!

[COPO]

Steve, does he have a museum or just a private collection? The Futurliner seems like an odd buy for a musclecar collector. They were saying the seller was hoping for $600K.

[LVCamaro]

Funny you should ask...he started his private car collection at B-J 2003 by buying 52 cars during that auction, then sold his construction business here last year and moved back to Phoenix. He recently built a nice exhibit hall/building in metro Phoenix with museum intents. His collector interests are diverse, with everything from old fire trucks to muscle cars to new exotics, so it should be interesting when he's done.

[JoeG]

I really felt glad for the guy who was hoping to get 600k for the Futurama bus------------What a feeling it must have been for him to see the bidding take off like that-------I was even clapping in front of my TV......

[Canucklehead]

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Now he bought the 29 P/U that Eric Perat and his crew at Pinkys Rod Shop in Colorado built for $190k, which was a steal!

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Don't know which one your talking about is it that P/U with the real skinny grill black with blue flames, i think he said it was a packard???, it so that was a neat truck (im into trucks)

[Dave Castine]

I thought Gressler had the #1 bidder's paddle...

[AutoInsane]

Back to the original post... does anyone know who the big guy who was the under bidder on the bus was? It would be fun to play with his kind of bucks at an auction one of these dayz!!

[427rcode]

the big guy with the deeppockets ask me what the 62 ford galaxie was worth.i said between 100 and 150 the bid was at 115 he imediately bid 150 and laughed.does anyone know who he is