Category Archive: Monday Shopper
Top 11: Our Favorites From Mecum’s 2016 Kansas City Auction – How Would You Treat Yourself?
Now that Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction is over, with any luck prices for cars at auction will drop back into the realm of reality. It’s a hope, anyways…after cruising the...
Sleeper Supreme! This 1985 Chevrolet El Camino Looks Like A Clean Driver, But Is Packing 427 Power Under The Hood!
Here’s how this one panned out: as Lohnes and I sit in Maine cranking out stories, I decided to paw through the Mecum Kissimmee auction that is coming up later this month to find some iron to...
Last Minute Christmas Stocking Stuffer! Moroso Pro Series Tire Pressure Gauges
Are you still frantically searching for that perfect holiday gift for yourself or that performance fiend in your neighborhood? Moroso Performance Products has an answer! When you’re drag racing,...
Top 11: Our Christmas Wish List From The Mecum Kissimmee 2016 Auction
Dear Santa, It has been a long year filled with hard work. We have travelled across the land, putting in the hours, staying up late to finish our chores. We even managed to exercise restraint when we...
Top 11: Our Picks From The 750-Plus Vehicles Up For Grabs At Mecum Anaheim!
Another month, another Mecum auction coming up for us to paw through. Clicking through the auction lots online reminds us of digging through the JCPenny’s catalog as kids as we wrote our...
Top 11: Picks From The Mecum Chicago Auction – Can We Predict A Decent Deal In The Catalog?
11. 1968 Oldsmobile 98 Convertible It’s the size of Rhode Island, comfortable as a barcalounger, drinks like an angry Scotsman, and looks like New England old money. This...
Some Deals From The 2015 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction – At Least A Few Cars Weren’t Priced Through The Stratosphere!
Barrett-Jackson equals stupid money. We’ve known this combination for years, yet somehow we still pay attention to the train wreck of “more money than brains” in the desert as cars...
Monday Shopper: This 460hp Impala SS Crossed The Block At Mecum Chicago For $5,000
Mecum Auctions’ Chicago auction just wrapped up this Saturday, and prices reflect a crowd that was ready to buy. A 1986 Monte Carlo SS went for $10,500. A stock 1984 Trans Am went for $14,000....
Tuesday Shopper: 1973 Chevrolet C20 Camper Special
Eff it, I’m calling this Tuesday Shopper now, because I can never get the research done to do it on Monday. There’s kind of a lull in big auctions this time of year, so we looked all the...
Monday Shopper: 1971 Ford Ranger XLT
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s Tuesday. Pipe down. And yes, we know that Mecum sold a Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible at this very auction for an absurd $3.5 million. The whole point of this feature,...
Monday Shopper: 1997 Chevrolet Camaro SS – $7,500
I like Hagerty Insurance a lot, but I’ll never understand their impulse to talk about how collector car prices are on the rise year after year. First off, suggesting to regular Joes that...
Monday Shopper: 1968 Chevy Impala Wagon
For the price of a used Corolla with 100,000 miles, you can buy a super-cool car from one of the country’s most well-attended vintage car auctions. You don’t have to be rich or famous....
Monday Shopper: 1922 Model T Pickup
As we mentioned with the last Monday Shopper, the point here is not to focus on the big dollar lots that make news everywhere else, but to suggest that if you show up for the early lots of any given...
Monday Shopper: 1977 Chevrolet El Camino – Mecum Kansas City, 2014
Auctions have changed over the years. They used to be places where you’d go to get a good deal. Now, thanks to the hot TV lights of Barrett-Jackson on a Saturday night, auctions seem to be a...