Some various photos from my week in Arizona
Jan 22, 2009 | 07:32 PM
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i think 2, 3 days. there was ONE tent with the best at barret. 200 cars or so...all the nicest hemis, and shelbys and top level corvettes. if you could imagine one of those big tent structurew where college football teams might practice indoors...about that size. the primary tent with the nice stuff was next to the huge tent (2 of the football tents) where the auction took place, the stage you see on tv. (huge). and then another tent next door with automobilia, everything you could imagine.
that alone could take a day or so. i got bored with that in an hour and, you can cruise the primary car tent in a day.
sitting and watching the auction is fun, but like watching someone play blackjack. better not to be there other than for the best stuff.
with a bidder pass you can go up on stage, and mingle right up there in the thick of it, or sit in the crowd.
i went on stage a few times to see stuff up close. there was a nonmatching hemi i bid on, very cheaply and it flew thru my bids way too high.
the red cuda i bought was the one at gooding. i think there is a photo ro so of it.
im a speed reader, so i like to look and see but i like to keep moving. there are dudes who could scour a shelby for 2 hours. yeah, they need a week. you can get thru the big tent in 2, 3 hours, walk the rest.
the russo auction is smaller, just basically 2 smaller tents. you can walk that in a few hours. russo is far more intimate. far easier to touch, see, sit in the cars. guys will turn them on an run them for you. etc.
gooding is just a limited few hours. an hour to see the80cars, most of which you'd never buy unless you havea 4.9mil for a ferrari cali spider. and the auction is bing bang boom quick and polite.
that was what was also really cool. the various flavors of the 3 auctoins. there was RM auction. i didnt see anything i found interesting, so i didnt go.
i could have had just as good a time in 4 days. but...the most fun was early in the week when noone was there, no crowd, and thats where i got the best pricing on the cars. saturday was like date night at the casino. dudes literally feel like if they dont buy a car, it might be a wasted trip, like slapping those last few bucks down on the black jack table your last night on a casino vacation. but man, the energy was wild. my wife, not a car person, was really happy as well.
imagine having the best weather imaginable, and, oh, 3000 of the nicest cars of every flavor, every price point all within like 5 miles. its your fantasy; im booking my trip for next year shortly.
that alone could take a day or so. i got bored with that in an hour and, you can cruise the primary car tent in a day.
sitting and watching the auction is fun, but like watching someone play blackjack. better not to be there other than for the best stuff.
with a bidder pass you can go up on stage, and mingle right up there in the thick of it, or sit in the crowd.
i went on stage a few times to see stuff up close. there was a nonmatching hemi i bid on, very cheaply and it flew thru my bids way too high.
the red cuda i bought was the one at gooding. i think there is a photo ro so of it.
im a speed reader, so i like to look and see but i like to keep moving. there are dudes who could scour a shelby for 2 hours. yeah, they need a week. you can get thru the big tent in 2, 3 hours, walk the rest.
the russo auction is smaller, just basically 2 smaller tents. you can walk that in a few hours. russo is far more intimate. far easier to touch, see, sit in the cars. guys will turn them on an run them for you. etc.
gooding is just a limited few hours. an hour to see the80cars, most of which you'd never buy unless you havea 4.9mil for a ferrari cali spider. and the auction is bing bang boom quick and polite.
that was what was also really cool. the various flavors of the 3 auctoins. there was RM auction. i didnt see anything i found interesting, so i didnt go.
i could have had just as good a time in 4 days. but...the most fun was early in the week when noone was there, no crowd, and thats where i got the best pricing on the cars. saturday was like date night at the casino. dudes literally feel like if they dont buy a car, it might be a wasted trip, like slapping those last few bucks down on the black jack table your last night on a casino vacation. but man, the energy was wild. my wife, not a car person, was really happy as well.
imagine having the best weather imaginable, and, oh, 3000 of the nicest cars of every flavor, every price point all within like 5 miles. its your fantasy; im booking my trip for next year shortly.