One of the dirty little secrets about Barrett-Jackson car auctions is vehicle sales are not always what they appear to be.
Simply put, the deal doesn’t close once the paperwork is done.
That unfortunate reality befell the second annual Vancouver Collector Car & Show Auction at the PNE last weekend, though that shouldn’t diminish what was by all accounts a very successful event.
This ’66 Plymouth Satellite sold for $25,000 for charity.
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More than $1.4 million in vehicles sold over the course of the two-day event, and if the most anticipated auction car sale had gone through, that number would be $375,000 richer.
But alas, the bid for the 1967 Mustang Fast Back created by 360 Fabrication of Abbotsford, which would have stood as a Canadian auction record, fell through.
“There was a bunch of confusion, on the stage and behind the stage,” show co-promoter Jason Heard said of that prospective sale. “The paperwork was wrong; just one of those things.”
“We did over a million dollars on Saturday and we were feeling pretty good going into Sunday, but that’s how auction are sometimes,” Heard said, noting that last year the majority of the sales came on the Sunday.
Of the 128 cars, trucks, vans and motorcycles that rolled across the Agrodome auction block, 70 sold for an event record of $1,427,100. The average selling price was $20,000.
The ‘almost sold’ 1967 Mustang from 360 Fabrication.
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Highlights include:
• The top seller was a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, with a successful bid price of $77,000.
• A vintage 1932 Ford Roadster sold for $25,000.
• A 1946 Chrysler Town Car Limo once owned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. went for $50,000.
• A 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback commanded $68,000.
• And a 1966 Plymouth Satellite, painted bright orange and provided to A&W’s Cruisin’ for a Cause as a charity auction car, sold for $25,000 with all money going directly to the MS Society of Canada.
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