but they show the Baldwin Motion car................. :rolleyes: Can't believe they never changed those wheels.

Guaranteed they will cut to commercial when Charleys car comes up even though you will never see another one like it.

Charley said he's driving it up there................... :faint: if so, I can't believe they won't show it. That thing thunders.............. :lol:

I remember when he fired that thing up at the Lat G party in Vegas. Awesome :yes:

SO SO bummed they didn't show the action on the RB Camaro. :faint: :willy:

Oh well the "pen guy" was fun to watch.... how much money do you have to be worth to bid that kind of money on carS???

Chris

Charleys next

I was just gonna say that Jody :D

can't believe they cut either, i watched online Razor hammer price was 245k.

hope he gets the switches right............... :yes: :yes:

bummer............

Crap.

That car is so cool just wish they didnt cut part of it to go to a commercial

I think they went to commercial because it didn't fire. Bummer.

Quite difference in outcomes on this car between last year and this year.


http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=443&pop=0

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=403&pop=0

Somebody lost a cool hunnerd g's.

surprised it went that cheap, but it takes at least two guys that really want it.

I was texting with Charley before it went up --- but damned if I have the heart to text him now and ask WTF just happened...

I was really waiting for "the lightweight" to get over the top money.

he said he thinks it was the fuel. Not sure what he meant, that gas might be real old in there, never gets driven.

110/130 is not like the crap at your local gas station. that stuff will keep for years. However, since he never or rarely starts it, it may have other fuel related issue from just not being used like any mechanical piece of equipment that just sits.

I hate when Jackson or his other guys are trying to explain cool behind the scenes info about the car on the block, and the idiot speed guys talk over them about stupid crap.

There seems to be more of that this year.... many times the TV turned into unintelligible babble with two people talking at the same time... Really really annoying. And personally -- way too much time being spent pimping the Social Garage thing...

Yeah, like I care what the trim tag reads on a custom car!!!!

I have to record it and ff through. A cryin' F'n shame that I went through 8hrs of video yesterday morning (on triple ff) and only stopped to look at 3 cars! (there were probably a couple dozen I WANTED to see but wern't shown).

I'm also a little suspicious of all the "charity" stuff going on. It seems like the corprate backed ones get lots of hoopla and high bids and the more basic "honest" charities barely get enough to cover the build. Obviously I don't know a thing about the complexities of it all, and I'm definately not saying the causes arent worthwhile, but it has a smell to it...


Jeff-

the actual car may be auctioned for charity but i also wonder how much behind the seens money BJ is collecting. The mustang and corvete charity auctions took almost 30 minutes of time.

this year seemed real bad. custom prices and cars were high, many original cars were selling way under, and they were wishing we would put them all back stock, and none of them acted like they had any idea all this custom stuff was going on or how it was done. I don't think they get that the new upcoming buyers actually want to DRIVE their cars, not stare at them in a garage. They really need to get a more up to date person in there like when they went to steve magenta (or however you spell it) and got rid of the british dude,

Truthfully, if they didn't have some of the heavy hitters auctioning some very rare cars from their collections, the auction would have been alot different. There were alot of cool cars as usual, but the auction could be shaved down considerably.
I like watching it. 3 days of great cars would be awesome IMO. Less cars would give cars like Charley's and others more time and make it worth the extra they pay to enter. I have to remind myself its a business. Looking forward to next year.

So did BJ bring back the reserve just to get those rare cars back at there auction?
They also said Charley's car was the only reserve car outside the 5000 number cars.

Here's my biggest "take away" from this years auction -- the stupid money that was bid -- was most likely NOT borrowed on a home equity line of credit...

So that means it was real money... which to me -- is a very good sign. I don't care you bid stupid money - as long as you actually have it - ya didn't borrow it.

They brought it back before this auction.

Yeah -- they brought it back because who in their right mind was going to sell a 150K car for 50K -- and the last couple years the bidding was pretty dang poor... so consigners were going elsewhere.

Now -- after this auction - it appears the buyers are back...

BJ still has the best of the best of what is going to Auction. I'm not sure how or why some of those guys sold some of the cars they did. Things must be slow for Ron Pratt in Az. The Macintyer guy (the one with the pens), Kenny says is the turbine motorcycle guy ( http://www.marineturbine.com/motorcycles.asp ), He sure spent some cash that is for sure.

It was really good to see some nice custom cars go for big money. 269 for Razor is strong money. 400K for the ridler vette is great. 250K for Poteet's pickup is weak but probably the most money ever for a pick up truck. The effort in that truck will never be appreciated. There were some other shockers like the RS challenger, Last year 175 this year 75K. I wonder why the new owner sold it, or was it an emissions deal like Prodigy's Firebird that BJ owned. Seems kinda soon to see that resurface.

BJ needs to hire Kenny, Greg, Scott and myself to be announcers for the custom cars and have Doug Renner be the spokes model in front of the camera. Those announcers are just plain stupid, even my wife was correcting them while watching. They also should just make the auction screen smaller and view the commercials side by side so just like a Nascar race you don't miss any of the cars going across the block. I don't think I got to see any car I wanted to see cross the block. Maybe George Lange's 32 that they said Boyd Coddington built, when it was just a Boyd body, Bobby Alloway built the car.

Da Man wid Da Pens ---


He's really into oil Fracing ----- With a company called.... Turbine Stimulation Technologies - and I can't tell if it's a new name or a subsidiary of
MTT... seems to be into "lots of names"...

JET FRAC.... Fancy name for a turbine powered water pump??


Fracing is the big hot thing in oil fields. Must be one of James buddies! :rofl:


http://www.marineturbine.com/downloa...%20Article.pdf

I was there for 5days of this stuff. There were some deals to be had for sure but prices I thought were pretty good. Had a good time and glad I got to experience it. A lot better than tv, heck tv didn't show hardly any cars.

I still have no idea why it would not start. I had just driven thru the lower tent area and to the staging lanes. I bled the fuel system today, fired it up and drove it to the trailer. Runs great. I feel sorry for barrett-Jackson as they promoted the he'll out of my car and I dropped the ball. All that booing really hits you.

it was acting like that day the ign/mag switches weren't thrown. That really sucks Charley. I'm hoping the right guy saw it there and contacts you.

if you just fired it up and moved it only to shut it right back down, it may have washed the plugs out and did not have time to burn clean. i was disappointed for you just watching!

it was great seeing it again and loved it when you fired it up at Sandlin's for the lat-g party years ago for everyone.

I think everyone that knows you felt just as bad as you did... we all wanted that bad boy to roar to life and have the crowd go crazy.... The booing was classless...

Every car guy has been in a similar situation - a car that won't fire - or a busted clutch/rear end etc. Many big money pro drag race teams have been at the lights when the fire goes out and it won't fire back up...

Sorry Charley, that would have been the highlight. Some people have no class.

The booing crap is really juvenile, what a bunch of asshats.

It was definately painful seeing you sitting in the seat with that look on your face. It probably won't ever have a fail-to-start again, go figure.


Jeff-

I was sitting in the bidder area Saturday night, and I feel like the booing was directed at Steve Davis, too. The amount of buildup to the '55 driving in really made it a downer to not hear it run, and then add to that Steve talking about how they couldn't start it due to "safety" reasons. If he had just said, "those old WWII plane engines are a little temperamental sometimes," I think it would not have been as bad. The booing was pretty classless, however.

It seemed to me that the money some of the pro touring type of cars got was all over the map, though. This was especially evident with the solid axle Vettes:

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=443&pop=0

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=443&pop=0

The titling situation could have affected the blue one, and while it may not have been as nice as the orange one--a 200k+ difference?

The lot right before the blue Vette also went for pretty low money, I thought:

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...&aid=443&pop=0

Since it was behind the ropes, I couldn't really look it over, but this looked like a really nice car.