{"id":19276,"date":"2022-04-05T15:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=19276"},"modified":"2022-04-05T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:20:36","slug":"mecums-houston-auction-sells-34-5-million-continuing-a-record-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=19276","title":{"rendered":"Mecum’s Houston Auction Sells $34.5 Million, Continuing A Record 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

With $300 million sold in the first three live auction events this year, Mecum is on a roll.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the momentum of that record-setting total continued with Mecum\u2019s Houston auction, which sold a record total of $34.5 million in 3 days, with 86% of the 1047 vehicles that crossed the block going home to new owners. With cars in the auction ranging from Hollywood replicas to pieces from incredible collections like the Triple J Ranch Auto Collection and Dr. Sonny Rush\u2019s collection, the Mecum Houston auction was quite the show.<\/p>\n

MUST READ: Only Artist-Signed BMW M850xi x Jeff Koons Sells Big At Auction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The top seller was an officially licensed Tribute Edition of the \u201cEleanor\u201d Mustang that starred in \u201cGone In 60 Seconds,\u201d which eventually sold for $253,000. Following that was a replica of the 1967 Pontiac Monkeemobile, which as the name suggests, was made famous by the Monkees. It sold for $242,000. Completing the top 3 with Hollywood-inspired cars was a 1959 Cadillac Ghostbusters Ecto 1 Replica, which sold for $220,000. The Monkeemobile, Ecto 1, and the 10th highest selling Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster all came from the Triple J Ranch Auto collection, which in total contributed nearly $7.4 million to the total sale amount.<\/p>\n

The fourth highest seller was a 1966 Corvette<\/a> Convertible, and it tied with a 1991 Ferrari Testarossa<\/a>, which both sold for $203,500. Sixth place belonged to a 1986 Porsche 911 Turbo<\/a>, which sold for $189,750, and the seventh and eighth spots belonged to more modern cars: a 2018 Dodge Demon and a heavily modified and lifted 2017 Ford F250 Super Duty<\/a>, which both sold for $187,000. The ninth highest seller was an iconic 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air<\/a>, which sold for $178,750, and the tenth highest seller came from the Triple J Ranch Auto collection, a 2005 Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster<\/a> that sold for $162,250. Mecum\u2019s next auction will be Dana Mecum\u2019s 35th original Spring Classic in Indianapolis, Mecum\u2019s flagship event, which will be held May 13-21.<\/p>\n

Source: Mecum Auctions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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With $300 million sold in the first three live auction events this year, Mecum is on a roll. And the momentum of that record-setting total continued with Mecum\u2019s Houston auction, which sold a record total of $34.5 million in 3 days, with 86% of the 1047 vehicles that crossed the block going home to new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}