1969 Yenkos up for auction...seized by US Marshals

[njsteve]

It was an amazing event to attend! 100 bidders on site and 40 on-line bidders. All the winning bidders were guys who were present (no on-line winners). It was quite exciting to see. On most of the cars, the bidding would go up to a certain high bid, then the auctioneer would give the third and final call and another "poker-faced" bidder would throw the next bid out starting the whole adrenaline-fest all over again. It was like watching an hour-long horse race. In the end, the auction pulled in 2.535 million dollars. And no buyers fees here, either which was one reason the bidders were going all-in.

There were a lot of TV news reporters there taping the entire event: Fox, MSNBC, CBS, etc.

I did see a few familiar faces in the seats. Was anyone else from here, there?

70 Boss 429: $265,000
67 Shelby GT500: $170,000
70 Malibu Convertible L89 Tribute: $70,000
69 Yenko Nova: $400,000
69 Yenko Camaro: $315,000
69 Yenko Chevelle: $237,500
Hemi Superbird: $575,000
70 Chevelle LS6: $155,000
71 Hemicuda project car: $347,500

Total: $2,535,000

Before the bidding was opened up on each car, they would read a brief description. They did announce the L89 Chevelle ragtop was a tribute car, which was nice to see that they clarified the description for everyone there in no uncertain terms. I wished all auctions worked that way. All in all it was a very professionally done auction. With some humor at times as the auctioneer was an old time Joysey native who threw in a couple Jersey inside jokes - all he needed was a guy on snare drum to back him up. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]