Ron Pratt / Barett Jackson

hey 6pack to go..

i think you're right on about the car auctions now being the greatest car shows on earth. i'm actually thinking about planning a trip to one of these events just to look at the cars. i've begun to watch more closely when the camera pans to the parking areas or staging areas for the cars and wow... these auctions now have a collection of cars in one spot at one time that i haven't seen for 40 years. AND every one of the cars looks like it could be sitting in a dealer showroom in 1969! some of these cars i remember in high school as being pretty rare even then. some of them were too weird back when they were new so no one cared about them (i.e. a mercury cougar "eliminator"). now, because of all the millionaire "car nut wannabees" out there, people are paying crazy money to restore every muscle car that was ever built. i have seen cars on barret-jackson and mecum that i remember only ever seeing in the lastest edition of "Super Stock" magazine that i had just purchased for $1.50 - after school in 1970!

so let all the "big money" nuts out there continue to buy these cars. as long as there are these looney people spending big bucks on these cars, "flippers" will continue to plow through the weeds in southern and western junk yards looking for that "A-12" roadrunner with the tree growing up through the engine compartment. someday, there is going to be hundreds and hundreds of restored muscle cars for sale at prices anyone can afford.