Mecum Auction

[tellyv]

You should have to pay for your spot according to the time you run it's not fair that I had to pay 1k and so did someone with a good time slot, I should have done some more homework I would've paid 500 for a decent spot on friday than 1k for a ****ty spot on saturday. It's done and over with time to move on.

[Van B]

Originally Posted by clill

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.

Congrats on the sale Charley. If somebody told me I wasn't going to outbid the guy it would make me want to run him up a little. That is if I could afford it if I got hung out there for some reason. I am told the buyer was from Lexington, KY. Doesn't seem far enough away to require travelling in a jet, but what do I know I am just a simpleton from Wisconsin.

[Van B]

Originally Posted by tellyv

You should have to pay for your spot according to the time you run it's not fair that I had to pay 1k and so did someone with a good time slot, I should have done some more homework I would've paid 500 for a decent spot on friday than 1k for a ****ty spot on saturday. It's done and over with time to move on.

How about charging based on the time slot they promised vs. what they actually delivered? That would be a nice goodwill gesture if they refunded part of the consignment fee if your car no saled when it ran an hour or more later than their projected time.

Realistically, Mecum would probably sell better percentages if they split the sale up into two lanes, maybe by reserve price.

[tellyv]

Yeah I complained to Dana he said he'd send me a check back we'll see how much? I should have sold a picture taking fee I would've made my reserve!

[Jr]

Originally Posted by camcojb

91 octane 15 psi.........only got to pull to 4800 rpm at that boost level because it shut the Dynapack dyno down (too much torque with 3.00 gears) Should be in the 850-900 rwhp range with a full pull, more with race gas.



Did do a pull after at 9 psi and it was just over 620 rwhp at 6300 rpms or so if I remember correctly. Turn it down to 6 psi and it's absolutely pedestrian, anyone could drive it. Cool thing about turbos, you literally dial in the power from inside the car.

Jody

Was this dyno with the stock LS2 cam?

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by DJW32

Was this dyno with the stock LS2 cam?

yeah, they've made well over 1000 hp with that cam.

Jody

[Vegas69]

After seeing this auction I'd have to send my car there instead of Barrett Jackson and sleep easy.

[tellyv]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

After seeing this auction I'd have to send my car there instead of Barrett Jackson and sleep easy.

Just make sure you get a good time, stuff sold well from early afternoon till about 7p.m.! I would go back if that was the case and mine actually ran within an hour of what they promisined. With all the attention my car had I thought it would do 85-90k.

[Vegas69]

No plans to sell, thanks for the advice though.

[GregWeld]

The problem with auctions is that you need at LEAST TWO bidders and 3 or 4 is even better... an auction with ONE bidder isn't an auction.

Doesn't matter if it's eBay or BJ.

The pros in the biz arrange some "phantom" bids with their buddies... to help things along. Good auctioneers - at a busy venue - can also 'help' the bid along but they're not risking that at a slow venue or for a single/newbie seller...