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Mecum Auctions, Inc. is an American auction company specializing in collector cars and motorcycles. It was founded by Dana Mecum in 1988, and was originally based in Marengo, Illinois. Since 2011, it has been headquartered in Walworth, Wisconsin. The company hosts various auction events across the United States.
The sale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. [1]
The auction was originally meant as a one-time event, [9] but was more successful than expected, garnering 3,000 attendees. It became an annual event, [6] and eventually prompted the creation of other collector car auctions in the Scottsdale area. [10] Jackson's wife Nellie was a car enthusiast and also took part in the business. [11]
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1956 Aston Martin DBR1. Sold for: $22.55 million (Sotheby’s, Monterey, Calif., 2017). Sotheby’s deemed this car, “the most important model in Aston Martin history.” It is also the first of ...
June 22, 2009: Deadline for making competing bids in the auction of General Motors' assets. June 25, 2009: Final hearing on the bankruptcy loan. July 10, 2009: Deadline for completion of the sale, requested by the U.S. Treasury and General Motors. [9] [10]
By 1966, Manheim Auto Auction established itself as the world's volume leader, selling off 45 vehicles per hour or 700 cars/trucks on a given Friday night at the 16-laned auction. Adding closed-circuit television, the dealers and wholesalers watched the auction from the new cafeteria in its expanded building.
After the live auction world's hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Gooding & Company made headlines by selling the top two cars at auction in 2021 at its Pebble Beach Auctions: the 1995 McLaren F1, sold for over 20 million dollars, and the 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione, sold for over 10 million USD.