Mecum thoughts....

[69Tom]

Anyone have any thoughts after watching or being at the Indy auction?

While I'm aware it's super rare, I'm not sure passing up $1.1 mil for the '69 Trans AM 'vert was a good idea. (??)

Was pretty surprised to see an LS6 only bid up to $70K and and a GT500 Shelby sold for $68K.

Prices seemed down on Camaros.

[Charley Lillard]

Best Musclecar auction there has been. 1.1 mil should have bought the TA vert but there probably wasn't real money on it.

[njsteve]

I recorded the 69 T/A ragtop auction portion and I could not believe that they focused on Dana Mecum as he said "I was protecting it for you so we bid it to 1 million. No real bidder" or something to that effect. I can rerun the tape in case anyone wants to know the exact wording. Shocking to say the least.

[69Tom]

Steve, you know, now that I think of it, I do remember hearing that. I also think I heard something similar at a few other points in the auction as well. While I knew this happened, I too was surprised actually hearing it out loud on the air.

[m22mike]

I saw and heard Dana say it too. Even my wife picked up on it..
I will have to go back and watch it again to see what his exact words were.
Lots of nice cars, that my TV take anyway.

[njsteve]

I still want to know who bought that bank repossesed Florentine Red 73 SD455 Formula. That seems to have been the bargain of the event at $61,000. The Formula SD's don't seem to have as high a value with collectors as the more famous and flashy T/A's, even though the Formulas were much rarer and were available in any color, not just white, green or red.