Barrett Jackson Las Vegas

[Canuck]

I spent a few hous ther each day,not a lot of #1 cars. I spoke with the fellow selling the green LS6 and a 68 Camaro. I did not get his neme but he tolf me he was in the rel estate business in PA and things were not going well so the cars had to go. He said BJ people told him he chould expect $125,000 for the Chevelle. He got $65,000.
Saw some stupid buying too, the 70 442 convert sold for 90K, pretty car with lots of wrong stuff,like an interior from a Cutlass S hardtop. And this car supposidly came from one of the top Olds Resto shops in the country.
A few minutes after the Olds a 67 Shelby only gets bid to $85,000 a similar car later gets to $150,000.
Watched that Chrysler limo sell at $87k and the buyer (probably the seller buying it back) looked liked he had been kicked in the nuts.
That Red LS6 had lots of stuff that was questionable.
Many cars seemed like they were prepped for the auction without any care to getting them presentable.
Paul

[kwhizz]

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Ken...are you in Fla?

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Not Yet! ...........Soon Come ........LOL

Ken

[quick-bowtie]

I thought the Green LS6 brought all the dough.. in the current market conditions, it was a green car (I like green but alot of people dont) it had some paint work done to it and the biggest down fall was it was a Auto on the column.

it brought $71,500 with the juice, pretty good money in my opinion or aleast more than I would spend on it.


The Olds 442 Convertible Canuck mentioned had alot of EYE BALL, but I agree that was crazy money for that car!

I saw ALOT of bogus cars and cars with bogus paper work, There was a real nice looking 66' Chevelle SS Convertible Black with White guts, the car had the look! but the idiot who made the fake paper work did the buildsheet like a 1970 sheet! and that make you question all the other docs the car had.

It is definately buyer beware!

[Shankin]

I just got to watch it from home but thought a couple of the vettes that went through were good deals. If i see one more restomod it will be to soon.

[Les Quam]

Perhaps QuickBowtie's post sums up the current state of B.J. the best. "I wouldn't take a chance on bringing a good car there" I also agree the layout wasn't user friendly the cars were displayed in two different locations and both were far away from the block. Not fun.

[704EVER]

Hey guys, I just dropped in from TChevelle to see what everyones' thoughts on the auction were. I thought it would go over much better than it did but I guess it's also a sign of the times. One thing I did notice is that out back or around the staging lines, it seemed like a ghost town. Of all the auctions I have attended, the staging lines always seem to be heavily populated with prospective buyers. This show, I guess for logistical reasons, just didn't have that.

[Shevelle]

I just returned from BJ. Overall, I was very disappointed. We took what I would consider a couple of "junk" cars as well as some very nice, correct, and highly documented cars. While we made out alright on most, they still went for considerabily less than expected, both by us and BJ. I bought the best car I took back. I came away with the feeling that there was not much appreciation for originality or correctness, and that that the buyers were more responsive to the resto/customs. We were told by BJ staff that there was 50% new bidders and that a large percentage of those were from Canada. We heard that the Canadians have to pay 30% to get the cars back across the border. I don't know that to be true, it is what we were told by more than one Canadian. Obviously that would have a large impact on thier bidding. Of the 9 cars we took, we know that at least 4 of them went to Canada.

There were a lot of things that I, as well as others were complaining about besides the price of the cars. Foremost, was the auction layout. Auction cars were either located inside the showroom pavilion, or outside under the tents. These two locations were at least a 30min walk from each other and neither were close to the bidding arena. The staging lanes were located near the tent cars. It was IMPOSSIBLE to look at a car in the staging lane and be able to make it to the auction block in time to bid on it. I know because I tried it, twice, and missed the cars both times and I even had a golf cart! I had cars in the showroom, cars under the tents and my entire weekend was literally spent manouvering from location to location. If you were looking for one particular car, you didn't know if it was in the showroom or under a tent. Most people I talked to didn't even realize that there were cars in two separate locations. To sum up, the layout was beyond horrible.

Also, the bidders seating was inadequate and leaning towards some sort of ill-thought favoritism. I've been reading on the boards and see a lot of mention about all the empty bidders seats. No doubt there were not as many bidders there as we are used to seeing in Scottsdale, but as a bidder I could find lots of empty chairs, but could not find a place to sit. That is because unless you were special enough, for whatever reason, to have your name pasted on a chair, there were no chairs available. The whole front two sections of seating were reserved for people who were Not there more than they were. So okay, maybe somebody like Ron Pratt deserves a front row seat. Maybe there are 100 people just like him that deserve a front row seat. But reserving 2/3's of the bidding section with half of those people not sitting in their chairs is just wrong. As a consigner, I would much rather see a bunch of first time registered bidders sitting in chairs than watching my car go across the block and looking out at a bunch of name tags.

Overall, it was a disappointment. I know the economy plays a big part in the price of the cars and that's not BJ's fault, but the Vegas venue has a long way to go to begin to come even close to Scottsdale. It all sounded good. Go to the auction during the day, gamble and do the Vegas scene at night. After walking around for miles in circles three days in a row all I wanted to do was lay down. The only time I even saw "Vegas" was when I was looking out of the airplane window coming and going.

[m22mike]

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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

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FYI

There are some new post's to the above thread.

[Canuck]

The Canadian dollar is now trading at 85 cents to the US dollar so it is costing us $25% exchange plus a 5% tax to get them into the country. % months ago our dollar was above us making a car purchase a bargain. Canadians love Vegas.

Paul

[mockingbird812]

That is one lulu of a story!!