Help With Selling #1 Car at Auction - Mecum Indy?

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Fellas -

Bottom line - car went through yesterday; no sale at $79k. Some post-auction interest, but does not appear that it will sell today. If not, plan is to send it to a well-known muscle car dealer in the midwest...

A few comments about the process, lessons learned, etc. -

-When Darrell dropped the car off on Monday, he taped a one page document to the glass with details on parts, restoration, my contact info, etc. This wasn't on the car when I saw it for the first time on Thursday. I'm guessing the Mecum folks took it off because it had my contact info, but I did not verify this.

-When I got there, I put the awards/certificates in the trunk and opened it up (MCACN, GTO Nationals, etc). Would have been better to have a billboard like NJSteve used for his Charger. Saw some folks with these and wished I had the time to do one of my own.

-Thursday was pretty much dead compared to Friday. I spent some time standing by the car and did field a fair number of questions. My phone number was posted on the car on Thursday and Friday, but no phone calls. LOT more traffic and interest on Friday.

-Lots of folks appreciated how the car was done (original color, no Judge wing, no Judge stripes). Several folks, including a few forum members, commented on the level of the restoration, accolades, etc. Car seemed to appeal a lot more to the Pontiac crowd, which I expected. Car was also a known commodity to the Pontiac folks; they knew it from here, the Performance Years board, MCACN, Darrell's shop, and GTOAA Nationals.

-Met some forum members in person, and recognized a lot more names of folks that I didn't get to speak to. Spent a while talking to Don Stowers (67 Z/28 went through after my car), BillinOhio, Stefano Bimbi, John Kryta (Inline Tube), etc. Stefano introduced me to Lynn Yenko, which was pretty cool.

-The car was supposed to go across the block at 5:20 pm on Friday, but it went a bit earlier (45 minutes early?), which was fine. I think this was the right time to go across. Some folks said it didn't stay on the block long enough, auctioneer didn't work it enough, but I was fine with it. It went across when there was "money in the room" and those who were interested had the opportunity to bid on it while it was on the block and purchase it after it went across.

Overall it was a good experience. Kudos to Mecum for a well-organized and orchestrated event.

Appreciate all the tips from members here. It helped out a lot.

Thanks,

Scott