Coming Auctions

Sep 20–21 — Billings, MT; The Mon­tana Classic
Down­town, 1600 1st Ave. North, Billings, MT 59102; 5:00am — 9:00pm, 9:00am — 4:00pm; No Adm. Fee; Reg. Fee — $35; Billings Pub­lic Auto Auc­tion; 406 698 7930; craig@bpautoauction.com; www.bpautoauction.com

 

Recent Auctions:

 

Aug 31 — Eugene, OR;   Eugene Cel­e­bra­tion Show-N-Shine
Down­town, 8th & Olive, Eugene, OR 97401; 9:00am — 6:00pm; No Adm. Fee; Reg. Fee — $20; Petersen Auc­tion Group of Ore­gon; 541 689 6824; davis@petersencollectorcars.com; www.petersencollectorcars.com

Aug 31 ‑Sep 1; Taco­ma, WA;   Lucky Clas­sic Col­lec­tor Car Auction
LeMay Mary­mount Event Cen­ter, 325 152nd Street East, Taco­ma, WA 98445; 206 467 6531; info@luckyoldcar.com; www.luckyoldcar.com

 

For more infor­ma­tion, Lucky Col­lec­tor Car Auc­tion.

 

Send AUCTION EVENTS infor­ma­tion to: BobJ@upfrontimages.com or list at www.upfrontimages.com under Reg­is­ter your show .

 

 

Post Wrap-up:

 

“Lucky Trucky” Auc­tion at LeMay Mary­mount Breaks Records, Deliv­ers His­toric “Seat­tle First” Fire Vehi­cle in PNW Col­lec­tor’s Hands.

 

Sunday’s June 2 Lucky Old Car Auc­tion “Lucky Trucky” sell-off of 140 lots—approximately 100+ of them no-reserve—set a new auc­tion record of near­ly a half mil­lion dol­lars in gross rev­enues as it unleashed a vari­ety of new and old clas­sic and his­toric vehi­cles. A record num­ber of more than 200 com­pet­ing bid­ders includ­ed online, phone, and proxy par­tic­i­pants from as many as eleven coun­tries around the world.

 

With pre­lim­i­nary auc­tion gross­es esti­mat­ed at more than $450,000, Sunday’s his­toric “fire sale” at the LeMay Mary­mount Event Cen­ter ham­mered high sales for a cov­et­ed and hot­ly con­test­ed 1988 Ken­worth T800 Tow Truck—$58,300, includ­ing buyer’s premium—at the same time it sent Seattle’s first motor­ized pumper, a doc­u­ment­ed 1914 Amer­i­can La France offi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed as Seat­tle Fire Department’s “Appa­ra­tus No. 1”, into the hands of a PNW col­lec­tor and fire depart­ment vet­er­an to thun­der­ous applause for his win­ning $12,650 bid.

 

Bid­ders con­verged on the mul­ti-acre Mary­mount cam­pus, bid­ding reg­is­tra­tion offices staged arrays of trucks, trac­tors, busses, fire trucks, clas­sics and mil­i­tary vehicles.

 

By 10:30 a.m., a stand­ing-room-only crowd of bid­ders, behold­ers and car buffs were scrib­bling, sig­nal­ing and bid­ding at onscreen and on-the-block his­torics as they passed prompt­ly one-by-one in a non-stop, six hour flood of eclec­tic mar­ques and makes span­ning more than a century.

 

Many of the vehi­cles were per­son­al­ly col­lect­ed by the late Harold LeMay, who amassed the world’s largest pri­vate col­lec­tion over thir­ty-plus years. Many are cur­rent­ly housed for dis­play at both the LeMay Muse­um in Taco­ma and at the LeMay Fam­i­ly Col­lec­tion at Mary­mount Event Cen­ter. Both facil­i­ties — inde­pen­dent of each oth­er but relat­ed by LeMay’s pas­sion and preser­va­tion, are opened year around.

 

At-a-Glance Auc­tion Highlights

 

• More than $450K in gross rev­enues  |  More than 200 bid­ders from 11 countries
• Top Price:  $58,300 for a 1988 Ken­worth T800
• Oth­er Notable His­torics and Clas­sics:   1934 Inter­na­tion­al 1.5 Ton Flatbed Truck ($29,700); 1955 Bris­tol Dou­ble Deck­er Bus ($18,700); 1932 Ken­worth ($18,700).  (All prices include buyer’s premiums.)

 

Full auc­tion results are avail­able online at the Lucky Old Car web­site – www.luckyoldcar.com

 

The next Lucky Col­lec­tor Car Auc­tion will be held on August 31, 2013 — Sep­tem­ber 1, 2013 again at Mary­mount Event Cen­ter in Tacoma.

 

Held in con­junc­tion with the 36th LeMay Car Show, this 2‑day auc­tion will fea­ture dozens of vin­tage vehi­cles at Mary­mount. This auc­tion is now offi­cial­ly open to con­sign­ment! Reg­is­ter as a bid­der or learn more about con­sign­ing a vehi­cle on the auc­tion web­site . Auc­tion pre­views start at 9am on sale day, and the auc­tion is admin­is­tered by Lucky Col­lec­tor Car Auc­tions. A pre­lim­i­nary lot list­ing of vehi­cles will be list­ed online, and any spe­cif­ic auc­tion-relat­ed inquiries or inter­est in con­sign­ments may be direct­ed to the auc­tion admin­is­tra­tors at 206.467.6531.  For more infor­ma­tion con­tact Evan McMullen at 206 467 6537 or info@luckyoldcar.com