Barrett-Jackson

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The bigger money seemed to be at Barrett-Jackson. I think the ZL-1 at Russo & Steele would have brought probably another $15-25,000 @ BJ. I had a musclecar dealer-broker, who has been involved in several ZL-1 deals in the past two years, tell me that the 4-speed ZL-1's and COPO's are bringing substantially more money than the automatics. He also said that the color held the price down on the car sold at Russo.

The consensus of those I talked to during and after the auction was that the market for a 4-speed ZL-1 in a good color and show condition has probably moved to $140-175,000. With original motor, add another $10-20,000.

Other big sellers not previously mentioned: '70 Boss 429 - $85,000; '70 AAR Cuda - $60,000; '70 T/A Challenger - $63,000; '65 L-78 Corvette - $116,000; '67 L-89 Corvette $210,000. Average Corvettes were soft...nice ones like these two broke the bank.

Craig Jackson did own the LS-6 convertible and it did get a good "pump". I sold it to him last fall for what I thought was a lot of money, substantially more than the one Otis Chandler bought last year. The $165,000 was surprising, but not shocking after some of the other prices. The shocking part was that I heard later that the buyer had a customer for the car who might pay as much as $220,000. Pass me the oxygen, please!