Barrett-Jackson 2012

[ACademic]

The collector car market is a different animal all together.

That being said, and given the previous comments on the overall quality and number of cars currently available at BJ (and other places) are some of the best in recent memory, does anyone have an opinion as to why? The economy really hasn't changed at all. Are some collectors cashing out for cash's sake, or are the buy/sell economic curves still in equilibrium? Prices have been down in recent years.

[csx4910]

I know they have expanded from 900-1100 cars up to 1300-1500 to make the same money. I think they have added a lot of lower end "driver" cars but also brought in some higher quality cars from these collections since there will always be people in the high end of the market willing to pay well for "perfect cars".

IMHO what you don't see if the stupid money like a restomod Hemi Cuda clone going for $100K plus or an emealnor going for $150k. those cars are properly going for what they are worth (more in the $75-100k range)

Still a higher quality car but it takes more of them for B-J to book the same revenue they did 4-5 years ago with 300 fewer cars.