Gold Yenko at Mecum sets record

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Originally Posted by Krateness

I’m curious to see if these prices will hold for cars sold after this lot. Traditionally a Yenko Camaro was pretty common to the $250-$350k price tag, now it doubles. Just wonder if the days of seeing them in that range is now gone given what they brought today. Not saying that they will all be $450-$500k+ but maybe now will float in the $350-$450k. Who knows, but interesting to see if this is just a blip or the start of a trend.

A few years ago there was a muscle car museum in Florida that liquidated a bunch of cars including two 69 COPO Camaros. I saw both those cars in person and while both nice, they were older restorations with a few incorrect items. One brought $280K? and the other brought over $300K. This was at a time where COPOs were bringing $150-$200K. In that case it was a blip, as the market essentially stayed right there, and is still there today.
As long as there are people willing to pay $400K+ for Yenko's, the market will stay up there. That just hasn't been the case for COPO's. 69 Z28's, now that's a whole different story