Event Coverage What would your perfect "Lambrecht Auction" consist of?

There is a old dealership like that in a small town in South Carolina(minus the convert)..or is it in Kentucky?
Doors havent been opened in many years.
Were I not sworn to secrecy and part of a group negotiating to buy the contents I would tell you more.

 

MoPar dealership closed in about '62. Plenty of '59 and older Plymouths, DeSotos, Dodges, etc. with a few Fords and Chevies thrown into the mix and a Nash or Packard here and there just to spice things up.

 

I watched every minute of that show. Saw Delmo on there,hoping to get one of those Pick-up's or just something to take home. Wonder if he got anything?

I have to agree with Ryan....Ford dealership which closed the doors about 40-41 would be great! Second might be an old speed shop,full of original speed parts.

 

Dig up the Buick parts department in Lockport, NY, it is full of 30's to 60's parts that were left after the dealer closed. It was in the basement....bulldozed over...it is now a bank parking lot.....the son of the owner took pictures of it happening..

 

Perfect auction= lots of cars and no bidders!

 

1st choice would be a '55 Chevy 210... black exterior with the black and white Del Ray interior and a 265 power pack v8 and a 3 speed manual trans...

2nd choice is a 1964 light weight Plymouth Belvedere with the new 426 Hemi and a four speed. Black with red interior, please.

Last one... (we get three, right?) Would have to be a black on black '65 Chevelle SS 396

Sam

 

Working junkyard with a little of everything up to the early 60's.
Butch

 

Gremlins. LOT'S of 'em!

 

Luxury/hot rods from 30s and fins/customs/performance cars of 50s and 60s.

If I had to go more specific I'd go with Buick 50-71 with some concepts(Y Job, Lesabre, Wildcat), modified Opel GTs, '38 Century convertible coupe stocker and a '37 Special Business Coupe hot rod with a Super Wildcat.

 

In the late 80s,my company took over a small town Chrysler dealership that had a bunch of 50s through 70s speed parts and also some Buick(60s) speed stuff.Ownership ordered me to scrap it,I opted for the garage storage instead.Flea markets were highly profitable for a while.

 

I went to "dream auction" of sorts about 30yrs ago. In Wyandotte, MI there was a company called D. Mellon Moran (my name/spelling could be way off), and they were a parts/machine shop/service place. Filled with old machines, obsolete parts and accessories, and in the rafters a WWII belly tank. During the preview I was nearly foaming at the mouth over the tank, and there was also a NOS set of Van Auken bumper guards. On auction day they had pulled the tank from the sale as one of the sons decided to keep it. We got the bumper guards, but what happened later couldn't be made up if you tried. Toward the day's end bidding had slowed down and there was lots of 'heavy iron' on pallets and in kegs, and frankly in piles. They got to a literal pile of cranks, and having bought some other stuff the guy points to me and says "I have 1 dollar, anyone else?" I said to his floor man that I wasn't in and he said that's ok I put you in. So I got like 15 unidentified crankshafts for $1.00, but then it happened again on 2 pallets of GM early A-arms. They were all rebuilt and there were a few of the top adjusters and other misc pieces. Turned out to be like 100 parts total. The same guy "put us in" for $2.00. I frankly don't recall much past that what we ended up with, but it turned out that 1 of the cranks was a Cobra Jet piece which I sold for $150. There was also the cutest little 4cyl crank in there. All turned and ready to go I simply wanted it for a desktop decoration. Someone pinched it before I got loaded up, and I can only hope the lousy fuck dropped it on his foot. I got good money for the rest of the cranks in scrap. And no, not a single forged BBC, SBC or Mopar in the lot and most had no way of identifying what they were short of being an expert crank man. But the A-arms, that was a score. Sold them to a national vintage auto supplier for $800 freight collect. We built 2 huge crates to ship them in set em up in the truck, then loaded each crate with the arms. The crates were 4X4X4, total shipping wt was just over 800lbs. I actually still have some sundry items from that sale here n there within the bowels of my stuff, but in the 80s that kind of profit didn't come along very often, and that was also pretty good money too. Hell my shop rent was only $350/mo. Oh yeah, not only did we near double our bid for the guards, but got paid to install them for the guy. They were a birthday present from his wife and we all became good friends after that. The experience, the people, all the existential values are priceless when these things happen. The profits were just an extra slice of pie after a holiday dinner, and I guess in the end that really was living a dream auction.

 

My fantasy would be owning that one particular hot rod dealership near Long Island that catered to the high performance set, that had to shut down in the '70's. I'd love to have the entire contents of this place, and their little, outside contractors shop, just one minute before Uncle Sam shut them down, after sniffing around their skirts, because they couldn't (or wouldn't) pass "Sam's sniffer test. Screw that old fogie car auction out West. I know there will enough Big Block Chevies and the parts to make them happy!!!!

 

The perfect storm in my opinion would be REASONABLE PRICES.

 

I caught the first Bob McDorman auction in the mid 90's. I don't think he even knew how many cars he had. I believe he has had two more since where he has sold off hundreds of cars. If something cool was traded in he would just keep it. Prices were pretty reasonable at the first auction. It wasn't the best stuff but there was some really cool things.

I would have loved to have bought the Corvair truck that was converted to be able to run in water.

 

My dream auction would be decent desirable cars and parts at a price I could afford!
And the likelihood of that is somewhere between slim and never.
Ah, but I can dream!
KK