Rand Workman Friday update

[12bolt]

68L89RAG: I appreciate your positive outlook and agree with your statement in it's entirety. you probably saw me wandering around with my son throughout the day. It was nice having an event like this so close to home. I believed it would be a great success or I would not have taken my car off the market for the last 4 months to put it in here. I would like to see them be successful as we simply do not have Auctions like this in the Northeast. I touched on KRUSE as the potential scapegoat for several reasons in my posting. several months ago I noticed this Auction was not getting enough Play in the Automotive world. Hey it's great that they covered the Bases with all the elite Money Papers and magazines. but are they the people that buy Cars?? some do I am sure but most consider it a foolish move investing in something that they know nothing about or only have a passing interest in. If I want to Auction off an Art Glass collection consisting of the finest works from Daum Nancy, Galle and L.C.Tiffany Studios, I would not advertise the Auction in "Hemmings Auto News". I also attempted to lure some friends up, but they were scared off at the high prices. Cars for $20-50K would have been HUGE there! sprinkle in the Big Money Car$ for entertainment. Kruse should have a list of Buyers that they work with. what did they do to attract them? whatever they tried did not work. Maybe they did not want this to work? Survival requires a Call for help to Craig Jackson! if they bring back the Kruse folks, It is certain failure. I did pick up on some scuttlebut that considering it is 2nd hand I will not delve into, but apparently KRUSE may noy be what it once was. we just were some of the last to know....

[olredalert]

12bolt,

-------Your second to the last sentence hit the nail on the head. You, sir, get a shiny new penny. As I stated before, having this auction do well would have been great, but certain things lined up to prevent the chance of success. One of them, IMO, is Kruse, short and simple........Bill S

[KellyAlana]

Steve thanks for helping with moving my car, it was nice to meet you and don't think this mopar guy didn't eye your car a number of times.

Dave, it was also nice to meet you and your car was another fine example of Chevrolet at its best.

Like everyone that was there has said, the place, the food, and vendors were some of the best, but NO bidders for a great gathering of some of the best musclecars. Hopefully Rand/Workman can get it together and bring bidders to this auction next year.

[Bill Pritchard]

Very interesting hearing about Kruse being involved in this auction. I am on Kruse's mailing list (not sure why...haven't been to a Kruse auction in many years) and I never received anything from them about this auction in NYC. I agree with others here, with the possible exception of their annual Auburn fall auction, Kruse has definitely gone down the toilet in the past few years.

[olredalert]

Bill,

------A friend and I were just talking about Kruses lack of interest in this auction. It occured to us that maybe they didnt want to suck any bidders away from Auburn the week before. It is also possible that the dealers (absolutely posatively necessary for a successful auction) had simply had enough after the Auburn mayhem and went home to get some rest. From thier angle they felt as if they had to go to Auburn which is a known entity, but would pass on R/W simply because enough is enough. Just a thought..........Bill S

[Canucklehead]

Being that this is their first auction, did they contact the owners and promise them high bids just to get a collection in there that bidders would be atracted to?. So owners put unrealistic reserves on them just to see?. 4m for a hemi convert sounds like a fabulous bid, but yet it did'nt sell???, i don't think alot of these owners were serious about selling their cars. Did the guy really expect 2m for a 4dr hemi?.

[SamLBInj]

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Did the guy really expect 2m for a 4dr hemi?.

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Its like selling your house and getting a bad realtor, they will tell you what you want to hear to get the listing, then you wonder why nobody is looking at your house. Anything you sell is only worth what somebody wants to pay. The rarer or more unique it is, the harder it is to price and sell.

[SamLBInj]

I think the location had alot to do with it, who wants to go to NYC, fight traffic or stay in a $600.00 dollar a night hotel and wonder if a plane is going to attack them, NYC still has some major scars from 9/11...also having it on the anniversary weekend of the attacks didnt help it much. It will take along time before people put that past them. I know from talking to the people on the Island here alot of them moved here or live here on weekends and cant wait to leave the city on Friday afternoon.