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I was really at the auction to see what my old Crown Vic, which I sold about a year and a half ago and then learned it had been abandoned by the new owners, was going to sell for at the auction. (That whole saga is going to be chronicled in a future article.)
This was the second auction I had ever been to, and the first where I wasn’t peaking over a fence to watch it, but I would imagine that my experience there was probably pretty typical of what you should expect to see at any auto auction you go to.
Should you decide to go to a car auction and are wondering what to expect, here is a list of my random thoughts from that morning, followed by some pictures I took. I hope you find it educational, or something.
- 7AM
- Hot
- Free water bottles,we think, there’s a cooler of water bottles and they don’t say anything to you if you walk up to it and start taking them
- $750 GTP (running, seriously, meanwhile 80’s imports are going for like $1,500+)
- A Grand Marquis and a Deville that nobody even bothered to bid on and never sold
- Weird canopy truck
- Interesting headlight repair
- $150 for a complete motorcycle
- What’s in the case?
- An SNES
- Clapped-out Accords and Corollas getting all the big bucks while American stuff is totally ignored
- XJS!
- Bullet holes
- 2000’s era Crown Vics for $1,300 all day long
- Those portable jump starting things seem to last forever
- CD Players
- CD Players
- CD Players
- Mostly just a bunch of boring bullshit
- Very much looking forward to a shower afterwards
- Faux ostrich skin sub box with double lighted flames
- That poor Impala SS
- The exhaust from that canopy truck blowing right into my mouth no matter where I stood
- Nobody here knows what the fuck an MG is
- Balls Deep
