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VINTAGE: Barrett-Jackson Live Blog - Wednesday
The second day of collector-car bidding heats up in Scottsdale ...
The custom two-seat NASCAR Ford Mustang created by Rusty Wallace became Wednesday's high-seller, raising $200,000 for the NASCAR Foundation. (Photo: SPEED)
Editor’s note: Each day, we will bring you live reports from the 42nd-annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale, Ariz. Check back for frequent updates.
Click here for the full story list, which will be updated as the auction goes on.
Click HERE for more photos »
Barrett-Jackson Quick Links! A quick guide to SPEED and SPEED.com's exclusive coverage of this week's Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Collector-Car Event...
Play! Hagerty Fantasy Bid CLICK HERE
Docket CLICK HERE
Live! Streaming CLICK HERE
Photos CLICK HERE
Social Garage is Open! CLICK HERE
Video CLICK HERE
Barrett-Jackson on SPEED CLICK HERE
Trivia CLICK HERE
More Barrett-Jackson News CLICK HERE
[Wednesday 11:08 pm ET]
SHELBY SALE: In the last hour, a beautiful 1968 Shelby GT500 KR special ordered in Meadowlark Yellow moved as close as possible to six-figure territory, without reaching it. It sells for a hammer price of $99,000, a mere $1,000 short of the magic $100,000 mark. The fact that it had an automatic transmission instead of a manual and was an unusual color may have held the price back just a little bit. This was a minor bargain for the new buyer.
[Wednesday 9:45 pm ET]
BITCHIN’ CAMARO: The first non-charity car to hit six figures is a brilliant Guards Red 1968 custom Chevrolet Camaro, which hammered for $100,000 even. It has the full Pro-Touring treatment, with an LS3 525-horsepower crate engine and Tremec Magnum 6-speed transmission. Many, many chassis, brake and electronics mods, with a full custom interior. Cars like this are becoming increasingly popular, because they can actually be driven without concern for originality.
[Wednesday 9:16 pm ET]
BIRD’S THE WORD: There are a ton of nice Ford Thunderbirds going across the auction block tonight, but it was this 1957 Ford T-bird that hammered at $90,000, the second-highest price of the entire auction so far. This is an E-code ‘Bird with two four-barrel carburetors and it is indeed bright red. Somewhere I hear the Beach Boys singing, “And we’ll have fun, fun, fun ‘till her daddy takes the T-Bird away.”
[Wednesday 8 pm ET]
RUSTY’S RIDE: The custom two-seat NASCAR Ford Mustang built by Rusty Wallace and sold to benefit the NASCAR Foundation, as expected, fetches big money, becoming the high seller of the event at $200,000. Rusty himself drove it onstage with Don Prudhomme in the passenger seat. Also on hand were NHRA legends Raymond Beadle and Ed Pink, plus Miss Hurst, Linda Vaughn, and Rusty’s sons, Steve and Greg. “The car is bullet fast,” said Rusty. “It’s no toy. It’s a mean machine.”
Every penny of the $200,000 raised by the sale will go directly to the NASCAR Foundation – no commission or buyer’s fees on this baby.
[Wednesday 7:16 pm ET]
TRUCK DRIVIN’ MAN: I can’t remember ever seeing one of these, a very cool 1963 Ford F-100 XL pickup truck modified to be a tribute of a drag racer back in the day. In 1963, if you gave Detroit Steel Tubing $3,400 and your truck, they’d turn it into a drag racer to compete in the NHRA’s B/FX factory experimental class. This one had a late-model big-block Ford engine. It hammered for $55,000, the second highest price of the day so far.
[Wednesday 7 pm ET]
DAY 2 ROLLING: We’re live at the 42nd Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event, with the second day of coverage on SPEED and SPEED.com, where we will have live television coverage and live online streaming until midnight ET. Rusty Wallace’s charity car, benefitting the NASCAR Foundation, ought to bring big money when it goes across the block at 8 p.m. ET.
Lots of cool vintage trucks and muscle cars on the docket tonight, with another strong evening of sales expected. Stay tuned to SPEED and SPEED.com for all the action.
[Wednesday 5:25 pm ET]
FOR A GOOD CAUSE: As always at any Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event, charities play a major role. And this year’s 42nd annual Scottsdale bash is no exception. There are 22 “official” charity cars between now and the end of the auction late Sunday afternoon.
There are good causes away from the auction block, too. For $50, you can buy a raffle ticket to win a 1993 Chevrolet Corvette 40th Anniversary coupe. The primo Corvette is being raffled to benefit cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). All raffle proceeds go to the Barrett-Jackson Cancer Research Fund at TGen, in Memory of Russ and Brian Jackson. The fund, established in 2010, is a salute to auction Chairman and CEO Craig Jackson's father, Russ, and brother, Brian, whose lives were cut short by colon cancer.
“The Barrett-Jackson/TGen fund supports colon and prostate cancer research with the hope that new laboratory discoveries will pave the way for better treatments and improved quality of life for cancer patients,” Craig Jackson said. “I am very honored by the work TGen scientists are pursuing in memory of my dad and brother.”
Tickets are $50 each, or 3 for $100. Raffle tickets are being sold at the TGen booth at Barrett-Jackson or online through Jan. 18 at www.bjcancerfund.org. The raffle winner will be notified Jan. 20.
[Wednesday 2:30 pm ET]
NASCAR CONNECTION: There is a strong NASCAR connection at the 42nd Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale. Tonight, Rusty Wallace will auction off this custom NASCAR road race Ford Mustang 2012 FORD MUSTANG GT NASCAR RACE CAR to benefit the NASCAR Foundation. This is basically a two-seat, 800-horsepower NASCAR race car, powered by a Roush Yates Ford engine.
But that’s just the start. Also expected to attend Barrett-Jackson at various times this week are former NASCAR team owner Robert Yates, who owns a home in Scottsdale; current team owner Rick Hendrick; four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon; former team owner Ray Evernham; and NASCAR President Mike Helton. There likely will be more surprise guests as well.
Going across the auction block this week are one of the late Dale Earnhardt’s Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets, one of Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevys, an old Cale Yarborough Oldsmobile Sprint Cup car; Evernham's amazing 1964 custom Plymouth known as For-Ply and Wallace’s Mustang, among others. We’ll have lots more on the NASCAR connection as the week goes on.
[Wednesday 10:46 am ET]
LET THE SUN SHINE: It’s Day 2 of the 42nd Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in sunny Scottsdale, Ariz., where the weather is mercifully warming up after an unusual cold spell. But the action was plenty hot on opening day, where the docket of cars was strong and prices seemed for the most part to be market correct.
SPEED will have five more hours of live television coverage from 7 p.m.-midnight ET, during which time we’ll also be streaming the event live on SPEED.com. And we’ll have lots of news, photos and videos here throughout the evening, so be sure to check back later for updates.
Relive Tuesday's Barrett-Jackson LIve Blog at: The Tuesday Blog.
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.
Click here for the full story list, which will be updated as the auction goes on.
Click HERE for more photos »
Barrett-Jackson Quick Links! A quick guide to SPEED and SPEED.com's exclusive coverage of this week's Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Collector-Car Event...
Play! Hagerty Fantasy Bid CLICK HERE
Docket CLICK HERE
Live! Streaming CLICK HERE
Photos CLICK HERE
Social Garage is Open! CLICK HERE
Video CLICK HERE
Barrett-Jackson on SPEED CLICK HERE
Trivia CLICK HERE
More Barrett-Jackson News CLICK HERE
[Wednesday 11:08 pm ET]
SHELBY SALE: In the last hour, a beautiful 1968 Shelby GT500 KR special ordered in Meadowlark Yellow moved as close as possible to six-figure territory, without reaching it. It sells for a hammer price of $99,000, a mere $1,000 short of the magic $100,000 mark. The fact that it had an automatic transmission instead of a manual and was an unusual color may have held the price back just a little bit. This was a minor bargain for the new buyer.
[Wednesday 9:45 pm ET]
BITCHIN’ CAMARO: The first non-charity car to hit six figures is a brilliant Guards Red 1968 custom Chevrolet Camaro, which hammered for $100,000 even. It has the full Pro-Touring treatment, with an LS3 525-horsepower crate engine and Tremec Magnum 6-speed transmission. Many, many chassis, brake and electronics mods, with a full custom interior. Cars like this are becoming increasingly popular, because they can actually be driven without concern for originality.
[Wednesday 9:16 pm ET]
BIRD’S THE WORD: There are a ton of nice Ford Thunderbirds going across the auction block tonight, but it was this 1957 Ford T-bird that hammered at $90,000, the second-highest price of the entire auction so far. This is an E-code ‘Bird with two four-barrel carburetors and it is indeed bright red. Somewhere I hear the Beach Boys singing, “And we’ll have fun, fun, fun ‘till her daddy takes the T-Bird away.”
[Wednesday 8 pm ET]
RUSTY’S RIDE: The custom two-seat NASCAR Ford Mustang built by Rusty Wallace and sold to benefit the NASCAR Foundation, as expected, fetches big money, becoming the high seller of the event at $200,000. Rusty himself drove it onstage with Don Prudhomme in the passenger seat. Also on hand were NHRA legends Raymond Beadle and Ed Pink, plus Miss Hurst, Linda Vaughn, and Rusty’s sons, Steve and Greg. “The car is bullet fast,” said Rusty. “It’s no toy. It’s a mean machine.”
Every penny of the $200,000 raised by the sale will go directly to the NASCAR Foundation – no commission or buyer’s fees on this baby.
[Wednesday 7:16 pm ET]
TRUCK DRIVIN’ MAN: I can’t remember ever seeing one of these, a very cool 1963 Ford F-100 XL pickup truck modified to be a tribute of a drag racer back in the day. In 1963, if you gave Detroit Steel Tubing $3,400 and your truck, they’d turn it into a drag racer to compete in the NHRA’s B/FX factory experimental class. This one had a late-model big-block Ford engine. It hammered for $55,000, the second highest price of the day so far.
[Wednesday 7 pm ET]
DAY 2 ROLLING: We’re live at the 42nd Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event, with the second day of coverage on SPEED and SPEED.com, where we will have live television coverage and live online streaming until midnight ET. Rusty Wallace’s charity car, benefitting the NASCAR Foundation, ought to bring big money when it goes across the block at 8 p.m. ET.
Lots of cool vintage trucks and muscle cars on the docket tonight, with another strong evening of sales expected. Stay tuned to SPEED and SPEED.com for all the action.
[Wednesday 5:25 pm ET]
FOR A GOOD CAUSE: As always at any Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event, charities play a major role. And this year’s 42nd annual Scottsdale bash is no exception. There are 22 “official” charity cars between now and the end of the auction late Sunday afternoon.
There are good causes away from the auction block, too. For $50, you can buy a raffle ticket to win a 1993 Chevrolet Corvette 40th Anniversary coupe. The primo Corvette is being raffled to benefit cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). All raffle proceeds go to the Barrett-Jackson Cancer Research Fund at TGen, in Memory of Russ and Brian Jackson. The fund, established in 2010, is a salute to auction Chairman and CEO Craig Jackson's father, Russ, and brother, Brian, whose lives were cut short by colon cancer.
“The Barrett-Jackson/TGen fund supports colon and prostate cancer research with the hope that new laboratory discoveries will pave the way for better treatments and improved quality of life for cancer patients,” Craig Jackson said. “I am very honored by the work TGen scientists are pursuing in memory of my dad and brother.”
Tickets are $50 each, or 3 for $100. Raffle tickets are being sold at the TGen booth at Barrett-Jackson or online through Jan. 18 at www.bjcancerfund.org. The raffle winner will be notified Jan. 20.
[Wednesday 2:30 pm ET]
NASCAR CONNECTION: There is a strong NASCAR connection at the 42nd Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale. Tonight, Rusty Wallace will auction off this custom NASCAR road race Ford Mustang 2012 FORD MUSTANG GT NASCAR RACE CAR to benefit the NASCAR Foundation. This is basically a two-seat, 800-horsepower NASCAR race car, powered by a Roush Yates Ford engine.
But that’s just the start. Also expected to attend Barrett-Jackson at various times this week are former NASCAR team owner Robert Yates, who owns a home in Scottsdale; current team owner Rick Hendrick; four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon; former team owner Ray Evernham; and NASCAR President Mike Helton. There likely will be more surprise guests as well.
Going across the auction block this week are one of the late Dale Earnhardt’s Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets, one of Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevys, an old Cale Yarborough Oldsmobile Sprint Cup car; Evernham's amazing 1964 custom Plymouth known as For-Ply and Wallace’s Mustang, among others. We’ll have lots more on the NASCAR connection as the week goes on.
[Wednesday 10:46 am ET]
LET THE SUN SHINE: It’s Day 2 of the 42nd Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in sunny Scottsdale, Ariz., where the weather is mercifully warming up after an unusual cold spell. But the action was plenty hot on opening day, where the docket of cars was strong and prices seemed for the most part to be market correct.
SPEED will have five more hours of live television coverage from 7 p.m.-midnight ET, during which time we’ll also be streaming the event live on SPEED.com. And we’ll have lots of news, photos and videos here throughout the evening, so be sure to check back later for updates.
Relive Tuesday's Barrett-Jackson LIve Blog at: The Tuesday Blog.
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.
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