Has anyone here bought a car at a Mecum auction?

[Stereolab42]

I bought a '70 GTO at Mecum in 2020, remotely, using their financing. Everything worked out smooth. Always a risk buying a car you have not seen but it turned out to be a great car that needed much less work to sort out than some others I've bought with PPIs. You just need to understand that this is going to be a high-risk play.

 

[Imperial One]

What do you think the price should be looking at pictures in USA dollars and location. Cars and parts sell for more in Canada typically.

The $39K was if color changed, column auto originally, or other combination of issues... like repop fender tag. or missing tag.

You said $80-$85K is your upper budget. And you've bid on a Hemi RR. A 68 Hemi RR is a ton more car than a 67 GTX 440-4spd

So here are some 1967 GTX Comps:

This one on BAT - $59,500 + buyers premium

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-plymouth-gtx-13/

This one on Hemmings. I was runner up. Probably should have bought it. $35,000 + buyers premium. I hated the interior (hideous velour interior and was a factory white interior (I do not like white interiors).

https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1967-plymouth-gtx-949057

This one on FBBO. I reached out to the seller and it is sold. Asking price was $45,000

https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/1967-plymouth-gtx.228321/#post-912028332

None of the cars had a manual transmission and (I think) only one had air conditioning.

The Hemi Roadrunner on BAT was a very nice car BUT it was going to need rust repair, the paint was fairly crappy and the engine had 83,000 miles on it and had never been rebuilt. I think $87,000 + the BAT fee was all the money and then some for that car.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1968-plymouth-road-runner-14/

If anyone has a car that NEEDS NOTHING has a manual transmission, Air Conditioning, a good colour interior (for me that means black or red), a good exterior colour (black, red, maybe green) and a documented restoration or original paint then I am all ears. Up to $85k but I am happy to spend less. I'd even buy a driver with bondo (a good 10 footer) if all the other criteria were met and the price adjusted accordingly.

 

[autoxcuda]

So here are some 1967 GTX Comps:

This one on BAT - $59,500 + buyers premium

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-plymouth-gtx-13/

This one on Hemmings. I was runner up. Probably should have bought it. $35,000 + buyers premium. I hated the interior (hideous velour interior and was a factory white interior (I do not like white interiors).

https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1967-plymouth-gtx-949057

This one on FBBO. I reached out to the seller and it is sold. Asking price was $45,000

https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/1967-plymouth-gtx.228321/#post-912028332

None of the cars had a manual transmission and (I think) only one had air conditioning.

The Hemi Roadrunner on BAT was a very nice car BUT it was going to need rust repair, the paint was fairly crappy and the engine had 83,000 miles on it and had never been rebuilt. I think $87,000 + the BAT fee was all the money and then some for that car.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1968-plymouth-road-runner-14/

If anyone has a car that NEEDS NOTHING has a manual transmission, Air Conditioning, a good colour interior (for me that means black or red), a good exterior colour (black, red, maybe green) and a documented restoration or original paint then I am all ears. Up to $85k but I am happy to spend less. I'd even buy a driver with bondo (a good 10 footer) if all the other criteria were met and the price adjusted accordingly.

440 and Hemi 4spd cars never had A/C originally. So you are looking for something original but with light mods (A/C). Then your have particular color wants.

You have a narrow buying opportunity window. So you will pay more to fit those narrow wants.

I like the FABO car at $40K then add 4spd and new A/C for $10K-$12K?

 

[Dean Prevolos]

I am looking hard for a B Body. Many interest me and I have been bidding/inquiring about quite a few. I'd be happy with almost any B body from '63 to '70. I've bid on a nice '68 Hemi Roadrunner and a nice Hemi Belvedere II. But a car on Mecum has really caught my eye:

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The appeal to me is:

1. Colour combo of red and black is exactly what I would prefer
2. 5 speed manual transmission
3. Air conditioning
4. Front disc brakes
5. Magnum 500s and red lines
6. It "says" it has a documented rotisserie restoration
7. A smaller issue, but it says an original engine car (a bonus but I personally don't really care)

Here is a link to the auction:

1967 Plymouth GTX | F82 | Indy 2022 | Mecum Auctions

I am just starting my due diligence on the car. But in the mean time I am wondering about the practicality of buying at Mecum. I have read the info on line and watched their videos. But I am finding the information fairly thin.

Has anyone here bought from Mecum that wouldn't mind answering a few questions for me?

Thanks.

I have bought and sold cars at Mecum. Of all the auction houses I prefer Mecum, good staff on the grounds(if you are there in person), you can request them to start the car, as many times as you like, has been my experience. Have a budget and stick to it, you will get caught up in the frenzy and you need to remember the commission juice you are adding for a RESERVE car verse a NON-RESERVE car. Buta s everyone says you need to do your homework before you go by reseraching a car months ahead of the auction. If you are bidding remotely, on the phone/internet, that could be challenging. The only time I bid on the phone and won a car at Mecum Kissimmee, I had been there on a weekend to look the car over and start it BUT it was a WEDNESDAY car and I was at work. So you register as a phone bidder, tell them the car your interested in and they assign a handler for you to call. Again, I have bought and sold and I am not a dealer. But sometimes you see a car at the auction that just has all the right stuff and you have to take the plunge. PM if you have any specific questions.

 

[FU64RY]

Mecum Is back to Harrisburg the end of July. I may run my 69 Belvedere Hemi car through. If not sold at Carlisle before the auction. I am 10 miles from Harrisburg and 25 from Carlisle so very convenient.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Mecum Is back to Harrisburg the end of July. I may run my 69 Belvedere Hemi car through. If not sold at Carlisle before the auction. I am 10 miles from Harrisburg and 25 from Carlisle so very convenient.

Didn't you recently buy that car?

 

[FU64RY]

Didn't you recently buy that car?

Yah I did back in February. I Have a opportunity to buy a local shop, he is moving south in the fall. Getting funds together.

 

[Cranky]

Mecum Is back to Harrisburg the end of July. I may run my 69 Belvedere Hemi car through. If not sold at Carlisle before the auction. I am 10 miles from Harrisburg and 25 from Carlisle so very convenient.

Sure would be nice to live close to where the big Mopar shows are. The Houston Mopar Connection Club used to sponsor the show here but they let that right go to some other entity and after a few years it died off. It wasn't all that big of a show but was decent for this area not being Mopar country.....