Went to Barrett-Jackson yesterday..

[Robert Hall]

It was quite the circus..walked around for about 6 hrs, spent an hour or so sitting down watching some of the actual auctioneering. A little something for everyone, mostly '60s-70s muscle cars (massive #s of Chevelles, '67-69 Camaros, Impalas, Bel-Airs). Many, many Mopies ('68-70 Road Runners, '70-72 Cudas, Challengers, '68-70 Chargers, etc). Lots of Mustangs (incl. 2 red '69 Boss 429s) and various Shelbys..

There were quite a few '50s-60s big cars as well..the usual '57 Bel Airs, Corvettes and Thunderbirds, along with a massive '57 Roadmaster conv..a couple '59 Buicks, '59 and '60 Olds, a couple '59 Pontiacs and 4 '61 Catalinas and Bonnevilles....

Some '70s and '80s cars as well--a very clean '74 Impala sport coupe Bicentennial edition (all-white), a all-original, low-mileage '76 Caddy deVille (4dr ht, silver blue), a '75 Olds 88 convertible (lt green w/ white interior), and an '83 Olds Cutlass Supreme w/ 23k original miles (lt brown w/ brown interior).

There were a bunch of the Monster Garage crap there up for auction also (a Panoz w/ an airplane engine, a Mustang lawn mower, a cut-and-shut shortened Lincoln dragster, a '90s Impala SS w/ odd mods, etc all very poorly done).

Inside, amongst the automobilia vendors were hawking, Ford, GM and Honda had sizeable displays...in the GM display, there was the 50 Cent G8, a blue ZR1 (looked like the car from all the magazines), a black CTS, gray Malibu, Escalade hybrid, Tahoe hybrid, and a massive 1911 Oldsmobile touring car (with those massive wheels it was like an early Donk).

At the Ford stand, they had the '08 Bullitt Mustang that I liked a lot, along with various other Mustangs and a couple of Flexes (incl. the Funkmaster Flex Flex).

Outside, they had a drift exhibit w/ Mustangs.

A lot of fun in sunny, warmish (65) Scottsdale... got to head back to frigid Denver this afternoon..

[FUTURE_OF_GM]

Awesome!

I've always wanted to go and my goal is to one day buy a car there. A guy I used to know had a huge museum of classic cars and would go every year to buy/sell. He moved a few years ago though, so I've kinda lost touch.

[vonVeezelsnider]

Good that GM is actively showing an Oldsmobile at its display as if they actually existed.

[ocnblu]

Cool, moltar. Any pics to share?

[Robert Hall]

Cool, moltar. Any pics to share?

Nah..I need to get a new digital camera..we only had a couple disposable cameras, pics probably won't come out that good...

[knightfan26917]

Sounds like a great time, moltar.

One of these days, I want to get there as well.... So much automotive history, even if I may not be able to afford it .

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[Screaming Trees]

Did you happen to see the Corvette "Rondine" concept go across the block. It was a '63 Corvette chassis with a body by Pinanfarina, it sold for $1.6M. I believe that was the top seller of the whole auction

[K.C.]

No pics?

[cletus8269]

Did you happen to see the Corvette "Rondine" concept go across the block. It was a '63 Corvette chassis with a body by Pinanfarina, it sold for $1.6M. I believe that was the top seller of the whole auction

yeah that thing was sweet, there was a thunderbird fastback concept that was there too, anyone catch how much it went for?

[Robert Hall]

Did you happen to see the Corvette "Rondine" concept go across the block. It was a '63 Corvette chassis with a body by Pinanfarina, it sold for $1.6M. I believe that was the top seller of the whole auction

I saw the Rondine in the post-sale room after it was on the block..it was pushed past me, about 1 foot away...beautiful car..I saw the Thunderbird Italien up close also. Not sure what it went for...will have to go the B-J website and look up the results when I have some free time.

[Screaming Trees]

yeah that thing was sweet, there was a thunderbird fastback concept that was there too, anyone catch how much it went for?

The Thunderbird "Fastback Italien" concept sold for $600,000