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Automotive Auctions

The "Sweetest" Automobile Event

October 12, 2009

I just returned from the annual pilgrimage to Hershey, Pennsylvania to attend the annual AACA Fall Meet.  With 9,000 spaces, this is the biggest vintage automobile flea market in North America; I don’t know of one any bigger.  The weather—which is a major factor for an outdoor event like this—was reasonably [...]

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Auction Fever Hits Akron

August 21, 2009

If you're like me, you've watched the big Barrett-Jackson collector car auctions on TV and wondered why we don't have events like that closer to home. The fact is that, up until very recently, collector  car auctions were illegal in the state Ohio.
Bob Lichty, president of Classic Motorcar Auctions in Canton, [...]

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Arizona Auctions Still Amazing After All These Years

January 23, 2009

I just returned from the annual auctions in Scottsdale, Arizona.  My tastes lean toward true antique and classic automobiles so I spent very little time at the Barrett-Jackson auction.  That auction, thanks to the Speed Channel, gets a lot of hype-and most of my friends thought that's where I was when they learned I was [...]

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Scottsdale and the Collector Car Economy

January 19, 2009

Now that the Arizona collector car auctions are over, have we learned anything about the current state of the collector car market? Is it sharing the rest of our economy's apocalypse or is it a safe haven to protect your assets and have fun at the same time? I would say, "yes and yes".
If you [...]

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January is auction time

January 4, 2009

Speed Channel has already started hyping their Barrett Jackson Auction coverage by incessantly playing reruns of last year's event. This year's auction is scheduled for January 13-18 and will have heavy coverage by Speed. Some of the highlights of this year's Barrett Jackson auction will be the first production Thunderbird, a collection of high performance [...]

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What will happen at the big January auctions?

November 18, 2008

The big Arizona auctions are just around the corner-January 2009.  The one that gets most publicity, thanks to the Speed Channel, is the Barrett-Jackson auction.  There are at least four other auctions during the month.  Gooding & Company, RM Auctions, Russo & Steele and the venerable Kruse Auction. There may be others-who knows?  Gooding and [...]

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