Barrett Jackson auto auction

[TimeForWasp]

Can't believe two pace cars owned by Jeff Gordon only went for $15,000 and $19,000

[TimeForWasp]

Originally Posted by BeaverEater

What kind of pace cars? Make? Model? Year? Factory replicas?

Not sure what year they were, but they were both given to him after winning the races. Brickyard 400 I think so whenever that was.

[Demonpenz]

I think someone on this website kept a 1973 corvette in storage that was a pace car, and it is worth less than it was back then. Pace cars since they are ugly as shit kinda suck

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

I think someone on this website kept a 1973 corvette in storage that was a pace car, and it is worth less than it was back then. Pace cars since they are ugly as shit kinda suck

Had to have been 1978. And this isn't ugly.



But there's really nothing notable about them other than a graphics package and a two-tone paint job.

[Bugeater]

Jeff Gordon's Brickyard wins and the corresponding pace cars

1994-Chevrolet C/K Pickup or Monte Carlo?

1998-Chevrolet Monte Carlo

2001-Chevrolet Monte Carlo

2004-Chevrolet SSR (lol)

2014-Chevrolet SS


Judging from that lineup, $15,000 and $19,000 sound about right. The only one that would appeal to me at all is the 2014 SS.

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

If the car doesn't meet the reserve....then it's not sold....therefore Barrett Jackson doesn't get paid.

So when a car is reserved, they'll go all out to make sure it sells....if a car isn't reserved, they put in very little effort to promote the car because they'll get their cut regardless.

Pretty shitty imo...but w/e.

Meh, it's an auction. Getting a good deal at a car auction is rare. Too any idiots drive up the prices. Also buyer beware. It's an auction. Check the car out before you buy it.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Also, dont buy off Barrett Jackson unless you ABSOLUTELY know what you're looking at.

There are great deals to be had, i saw a 2014 Maserati go for 35K....

But i also saw some cars that were.....pheeeew....really bad deals for the buyer...clearly instances of people not looking at the details on the cars....sometimes you can be had by a pretty paint job...

That's fine if you like Maserati.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

There are great deals to be had, i saw a 2014 Maserati go for 35K....

I once saw one go 185.

IIRC, they ended up taking the owner's license.

[ping2000]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I once saw one go 185.

IIRC, they ended up taking the owner's license.

Life's been good to me so far, but I do miss that car.

[rtmike]

All Barrett Jackson auctions are no reserve. You can place a reserve on the high dollar rigs, something like $300k but the 95% of them are no reserve.

I have a good friend that does the auction scene for a hobby. Back around '06 or so when the market went nuts a car he had just restored sold for $475k.
A dark green '70 Hemi 'cuda, 4 gear, #'s matching.
The next year Scottsdale was flooded with '70 Hemi 'cuda's & they struggled to reach $200k.

Mecuum, Silver State & the other auto auction houses normally are NO reserve.



B-J is a chance I just can't bring myself to take. I had a '70 Challenger with the 340, (didn't make small block 340 R/T's this year) that only had 2 interested parties so I offered it up to a dealer who frequents auctions. He tried beating me up to get off my $30k threshold but I never budged. He bought it for that price & took it to BJ less than 6 months later & I guess the bidding stalled around $35k but all of a sudden took off & ended @ $57k.
Ends up being highest selling high performance, non big block, E body Mopar they've sold.

[ModSocks]

Originally Posted by rtmike

All Barrett Jackson auctions are no reserve.

No they're not. You can pay them to place a reserve. I watched a bunch of cars roll off the block with no reserve met.

[ModSocks]

The cars that yield high dollars are generally numbers matching, rare option model-type cars. Restomods do't do very well when compared to what they cost to build. The higher end restomods, anyway. Seems like every one of them is a loss.

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

The cars that yield high dollars are generally numbers matching, rare option model-type cars. Restomods do't do very well when compared to what they cost to build. The higher end restomods, anyway. Seems like every one of them is a loss.

Yep. Don't build a hot rod or resto mod for $150k and then take it to an auction and expect to get your money back or make money. You built a a custom car to your liking. It don't mean crap to the rest of the world no matter what you think. Custom is custom, Build it and KEEP IT. Unless you have more money than common sense you should never ever build a custom and sell it unless you are willing to lose $$$.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

Yep. Don't build a hot rod or resto mod for $150k and then take it to an auction and expect to get your money back or make money. You built a a custom car to your liking. It don't mean crap to the rest of the world no matter what you think. Custom is custom, Build it and KEEP IT. Unless you have more money than common sense you should never ever build a custom and sell it unless you are willing to lose $$$.

This. Same goes for custom bikes.

I've seen the same one for sale on one of my Facebook groups for well over a year. No way it's selling for $60k asking price.

[Molitoth]

My dad had one of these that I used to love. Burnt up in a warehouse fire.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Molitoth

My dad had one of these that I used to love. Burnt up in a warehouse fire.

Had a pair of brothers I grew up in church with, their mom was a drag race mom like many are soccer moms.

She bought one a 70 Cutlass and the other a 70 GSX [this was late 80s]. I used to wrench around on the GSX for a bit and he got it down into the high 10s on street tires.

The Cutlass was white with the white on chrome mags like that above, but wasn't a convertible.
He ended up turning the drive shaft into a spiral dropping the clutch one evening.