Official Volkswagen Auctions Thread - Barrett-Jackson, etc.

[EverettB]

[WM971252]

[KKiley]

Wow, a 23 window reserve was 175,000 on Mecum today. Bidding hit like $110,000. That seller might be sitting on it a while to hit that reserve.
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[EverettB]

Any link?

Edit: This one I believe
https://www.mecum.com/lots/PJ0617-287925/1959-volkswagen-deluxe-23-window-microbus/

Nice looking Bus.
The gas pedal looks messed up to me - it has almost no travel.
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[WM971252]

The cheapest Sunroof Deluxe at Barrett-Jackson ever sold today. Only $125. It was one of the higher bids for any of the Franklin or Danbury Mint toys.

[EverettB]

Damn, all those fingerprints too, I wouldn't have paid that much!

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[WM971252]

At least the door stayed on when he struggled to open it

[scottyrocks]

Beautiful white over blue '68 Ghia coupe coming up shortly.
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[scottyrocks]

Two bug verts just went across the block - a '72 for $9K, and a '67 for $12k.

The announcers made all kinds of mistakes. One was regarding the irs rear, another about where the fuel filler went to in '68 - not the fender, as he said, and he called the '67 over-rider bumpers 'non-over-rider' bumpers.
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[scottyrocks]

Here comes a '70 Beetle.

He has the bumper over-rider terms confused again.

$7,500, including surfboards.
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[scottyrocks]

The Ghia went for $16k.
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[scottyrocks]

Lightly modified '63 Beetle - $9,500.

And '63 wasn't the last year of the smaller side glass.
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– D. Tartt, 'The Goldfinch'

[scottyrocks]

Last car of the televised portion of the auction, a '79 bug vert - and they ended coverage before the auction ended. Jerks.
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– D. Tartt, 'The Goldfinch'

[scottyrocks]

I missed the beginning of the televised portion off the auction so am catching the first rerun now.

Coming up soon is a red '56 type 1 sedan with black tail light housings and a roof rack. Beautiful car.
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[scottyrocks]

The '56 went for $11k.

Metal flake red paint. Not pristine, but very pretty.
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[skills@eurocarsplus]

the cars you have listed were nice in person...about on par with what people here call "restored"

at those prices, there is zero sense to fix one....you couldn't build any of those cars at the prices they sold for
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[67ctbug]

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[WM971252]

Which announcer, the one on the block or the TV guy (s).....


The TV guys are filling time and it is tough to be an expert on all the cars that go over the block. The announcer on the block.... He is just reading the text the seller provide. Then there is the auctioneer that remembers one piece he heard.

I do agree the TV guys should shut up but again if you just listened to the action without them it would make bad TV. The TV block guy I never saw off the block so he never saw the cars before and of course the other "issue" is in the preview area unless the owner is there everything is closed up.

It is interesting to see the difference in "marketing" of the sellers. There was one car that had a crew handing out flyers with info and talking to potential buyers and of course the normal show sign with info. Then there is the others that won't even detail their car cause "they are supposed to do it". They are detailing the cars but if your car is going up on Saturday they aren't getting to it till they get the ones in front of you done.