A brief visit to the Barrett-Jackson car auction last week

[RDMcG]

Scottsdale Arizona does a series of amazing auctions every January. I have never bothered to attend but decided to have a look at Barrett-Jackson. 1900 vehicles and all sorts of Automobilia. It is very well organized. Parking is a couple of miles away with a never ending fleet of coaches to drop and pick up right outside.

The scale of the thing is astonishing. Endless numbers of places to eat, as many drink establishments as one can manage, lots of souvenirs, hundreds of T-Shirts and so on. It is a city. I only went briefly and did not wait for the headliners at the end of the week...Ferrari F-40, Carrera GT etc. I have seen many examples in my life, so was interested to see some of the midrange stuff

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Just after entering there is the ideal vehicle of you are a dictator for a small country:





This thing can be configured to almost any level of paranoia, separate air supply ,the lot.

[Killer2005]

For the impatient amongst us, any more pics?

[RDMcG]

It. is a good ten minute walk before any auction cars.

Cadillac was showing off its new EV:



Barrett. had the biggest T shirt collection I have seen at an event:



There is a burgeoning market in customizing old Ford Broncos.
Would you believe $400k for this?



and even a shout out to the Winged Horse of Chav Tat:



The space capsule of Jeff Bezos:

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and so to a few cars:



The Silver Ferrari on the right used to belong to Rod Stewart


One of my favourite cars, a Lexus LF-A





The usual Porsche suspects:

911R


993 Turbo

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A 3RS and a 2RS over the way:



Huge amount of custom stuff like this Lincoln:



Half a dozen Ford GTs







Vast as this is there are six more tents:



Quite a few Lambos:


One of the original Mustang GT500s that Hettz had for hire:

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Massive numbers of Corvettes:







A huge, odd Lincoln EV concept:





Some Thirties Packards

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Nice T-Birds





A Buick Grand National with delivery mileage. These were very quick in their time:



A couple of fairly identical Z8s . Much better looking with the hardtop off and the top down in my view. Nice to drive though:





A Munster car for the practical among us:

Edited by RDMcG on Tuesday 31st January 20:00

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There was no shortage of chrome:

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Nice '35 Ford Woody:





Two amazingly rare 4x4s.:

Ford did not supply 4x4 for the woodies or the sedan deliveries, but it could be ordered from Marmon Herrington. Very expensive and the vehicles stood noticeably taller:

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A super rare Oldsmobile woody

Edited by RDMcG on Tuesday 31st January 20:02

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Probably not a good idea

[Mogul]

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Lots of very high end Caddies in their time:

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1940 Ford convertible

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Lovely XK120 with proper disc wheels:

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.and where would we be without pickup trucks?;

I think Dodge Power wagons are the best looking trucks of all but in standard trim they only reach 45MPH. There are customizers here doing very expensive remanufacturing to make them look authentic but with modern power and running gear.







Studebakers are a lot less common:



Not a whole lot of of Jeep pickups either:

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Fords and Chevies are ubiquitous:

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Will do a few more later.

[jonwm]

Awesome, always wanted to go, I remember a few years ago with a new born watching it live through the night, has since been a lottery win trip wishlist.

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jonwm said:

Awesome, always wanted to go, I remember a few years ago with a new born watching it live through the night, has since been a lottery win trip wishlist.

It was a major success ( see link here):

https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Media/Home/Reader/...

Almost $200 million. I actually ran out of battery on my iPhone but have a few more to post.

[Killer2005]

Amazing stuff, thanks for sharing.