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AUTOS: Arizona Insider Auction Forum
Phoenix Automotive Press Association opens its popular collector-car auction-week event to the public with a limited number of tickets available.
Media Release  |  Posted January 06, 2012   Phoenix, AZ
This rare 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow will be offered by Barrett-Jackson at its Scottsdale Auction. (Photo: Barrett-Jackson)
When Arizona becomes the center of the collector-car world every January, with more than half a dozen auctions and several thousand vehicles being sold, it can be difficult to sort out everything that’s going on.

To help with this effort, the Phoenix Automotive Press Association invites a panel of classic-car experts to present personal observations and expectations. Now for the first time, and by popular demand, PAPA is opening this insider forum to the general public with 100 tickets available to non-members.

The Preview will be held during Arizona Auction Week on Wednesday, Jan. 18, starting at 7 p.m. at the Phoenix Art Museum. Each ticket is priced at $20 and includes presentations from each of the auction houses, the panel discussion, an opportunity to ask questions of the panelists, a dessert buffet at the conclusion of the event and a gift bag.

Part of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the classic-car-restoration education program at McPherson College, the only college in the country that grants a four-year degree in classic-vehicle restoration. Tickets can be purchased at Arizona Auction Week Preview.

The panelists for PAPA’s Auction Week Preview are:

Jim Pickering, managing editor of Sports Car Market and editor of American Car Collector magazines.

Ken Gross, , former director of the Petersen Museum, selection-committee member and judge at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and a veteran automotive journalist and car collector.

McKeel Hagerty, chief executive officer of Hagerty Insurance – world’s largest insurer of classic vehicles – publisher of Hagerty Magazine, and founder of the Historic Vehicle Association.

In addition to the panel discussion, each of the auction houses staging events in Arizona –Barrett-Jackson, Bonhams, Gooding & Company, RM, Russo and Steele and Silver – has been invited to offer a brief preview of its event and its noteworthy vehicles.
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