Mecum Auction

[ProdigyCustoms]

Originally Posted by tellyv

Well I learned the hard way that you should never let your car run after 8:00 that place was fn empty! .

Yeah, been there, done that. Just me and my car in the building after 8PM. never again. i would rather run at noon. But for me, no prime time, no go!

Sorry it did not go.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

can you choose your time or is it dictated by the popularity of the car??

Thats strange Telly, you have a nice car....I heard a 70 challenger hemi conv sold for $675k I'd poop myself.

Congrates Jody and Charlie.
Vince

[MarkM66]

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

can you choose your time or is it dictated by the popularity of the car??

Thats strange Telly, you have a nice car....I heard a 70 challenger hemi conv sold for $675k I'd poop myself.

Congrates Jody and Charlie.
Vince

At Mecum, it's basically first come first serve. So those who consigned early got the good spots. That's why you can see a $300k car followed by a $30k car.

[JohnC]

Congrats, Charley.

[tones2SS]

Very cool!!

[RickM415]

sad to see it leave northen california

[tellyv]

I'm pretty dissapointed and know that I will never run another car unless it runs between 3-7 pm, my 1k that I spent for the spot 200 for hotel room and 300 for gas just seems like a big waste of time and money right now, I could have drove 30 minutes to W.I. Dells car show this weekend and had a hell of a lot better chance of selling it. I knew after my father in laws car ran very late on friday night that mine would probably not sell and when I pulled it on the block and seen about 200 people in the building and around 7 there were a couple thousand I really knew I was probably taking it home. So on the 6 hr drive home today I realized that I really dont need the money so if I cant get really close to 75k I'll leave it in the corner till the market turns around or sell my other projects and make some changes so I can make it more trackable. After seeing 10,000 camaro's this weekend I'm getting kind of sick of them this things paid for and different so why not keep it? I just need to figure out how to pay for my upgades to my ta for my trip to Sema!

[clill]

Originally Posted by camcojb

yeah, until he found out how bad it was before being restored...............
Malitude went for $110K, the buyer held his Lear Jet to hang around for it to hit the podium. He would have gone a lot higher, but there wasn't a second guy to go with him. Great auction, lots of fun and a ton of nice muscle cars. And congrats to Charley on the sale, glad to see the car do well, it was very well received.

Jody

We actually don't know what kind of jet he had or ow high he would have bid but knowing he had a jet waiting was a good sign. The other guy stopped bidding when he was told by someone that he wasn't going to outbid the other guy. The winning bidder seems like a nice guy. The Ram Air 4 70 Trans Am was dirt cheap even if it did start out as a basket case. Those have been selling at 200k-250K. I just had a bad feeling about the car when reserve was lifted at 50K. You don't pull the reserve on a 200K car at 50K. Now I find out that the reserve got pulled because the bank owned the car and was cleaning house. Great auction. That was the best collection of musclecars at auction ever. There were good deals and bad deals but for the most part it looked to me that people paid pretty fair prices for cars. Next year should be even stronger.

[Stg1Regal]

clill (Charley) Congrats on the sale.. I was there with my boss and our shop crew ,Vail's Classic Cars, we were to the right of you in the corner with the 3 Mustangs and the 70 Dodge Charger..... I went over there a few times just to stare at it... wow to see the "Malitude" in person!!!

tellyv....... Feel your Pain on the no sale... we got ripped on our time slot, suppose to be 10pm they got us in there at 11:12 PM..... heck nobody there.. maybe 40 people max.
The money ate us too. Took 5 cars, means 5 trucks and trailers, and the shop is only 30 minutes away.. still a big exspense.
Did sell 1 at 10:am, good crowd then.
Don't know what happened but the paper work for all 5 was sent and received at the same time, but 1 at 10:am and the other 4 at 10:pm?

tellyv Went and seen your Cuda in person.... man it is simply awesome!! great ride enjoy driving it!!

Cant remember his screen name but there was a chap there selling a red Pro=Touring Camaro rag top, with a mean 502 in it, it didnt sell either.
It was a sharp car, got to speak with him for awhile while he was in the setup lanes, good to chat with.

I was glad to see the Pro-Touring style cars represented there...

[tones2SS]

Originally Posted by tellyv

I'm pretty dissapointed and know that I will never run another car unless it runs between 3-7 pm, my 1k that I spent for the spot 200 for hotel room and 300 for gas just seems like a big waste of time and money right now, I could have drove 30 minutes to W.I. Dells car show this weekend and had a hell of a lot better chance of selling it. I knew after my father in laws car ran very late on friday night that mine would probably not sell and when I pulled it on the block and seen about 200 people in the building and around 7 there were a couple thousand I really knew I was probably taking it home. So on the 6 hr drive home today I realized that I really dont need the money so if I cant get really close to 75k I'll leave it in the corner till the market turns around or sell my other projects and make some changes so I can make it more trackable. After seeing 10,000 camaro's this weekend I'm getting kind of sick of them this things paid for and different so why not keep it? I just need to figure out how to pay for my upgades to my ta for my trip to Sema!

Sucks you didn't sell the car. From the pics, it looks like a killer car.
BUT, everything happens for a reason. SO,...I would do exactly what you said about storing it and making it a more track-able car. Especially if you don't need to sell it. Why take a bath on it, right?
GOOD LUCK MAN!