The Mecum Auctions St. Charles 2012 sale was held on October 25-27 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles,...
Mecum Auctions
Mecum calls themselves “The World’s Largest Collector Car Auctions” and if you have ever been to any of their events you can see why. Mecum Auctions is a known leader in live auctions of collector and classic cars, antique motorcycles, vintage tractors and Road Art memorabilia with events across the US. Catch previews of their upcoming auctions and highlights from those past in our coverage.
Fully documented and well known in the Shelby collector community, this 1967 Shelby 427 “Semi Competition” Cobra, CSX3045, has been chronicled...
The Mecum Auctions Verde Classics Museum Collection sale was held Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 in Boynton Beach, Florida, resulting in $3,784,520 in total sales. More than 75 collector cars and 470 lots of automobilia from Fran and Ron Green’s personal collection sold during the one-day, no reserve auction. Vehicles began...
Mecum’s Houston auction took place last weekend, enjoying a 70-percent sell-through rate and more than $25 million in total sales....
Mecum Auctions has hosted sales in Kansas City, Missouri, for more than 20 years, and will do so again next...
Mecum Auctions’ record-setting 10-day auction, held January 18-27, broke the record for the largest collector car auction, based on the number of cars being sold. A total of 3,337 lots filled every building and 15 acres of tents, with a total of 2,610 cars crossing the auction block along with...
Mecum Kissimmee 2016, the world’s largest collector-car and Road Art auction, scheduled for January 15-24 at Osceola Heritage Park in...
Mecum Auctions’ inaugural Los Angeles classic and collector-car auction realized more than $9.3 million in sales in late February. Despite...
An opportunity to own the 27th Corvette ever produced in 1953 will present itself at this weekend’s Mecum Daytime Auction in Monterey, California. Even better, the car in question has less than 4,000 original miles on its odometer. It is part of the 26-car Ed Foss Low-Mileage Corvette Collection that...
Richard A. Stephens, former Academy of Art University president, always had a penchant for cars, a sentiment that has been...
A pair of million-dollar Shelby Cobras took top honors at Dana Mecum’s 29th Original Spring Classic, at the Indiana State...
The Modern Speed Collection will be featured at the 2016 Mecum Monterey auction, scheduled for August 18-20 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel in California during Monterey Classic Car Week. The Collection includes 12 low-mileage examples of modern sports and supercars from names such as Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Ferrari, McLaren...
Mecum Auction will hold its inaugural Monterey Auction on Saturday, August 15, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Resort in...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
Hemi-powered Mopar machinery will highlight Mecum’s 2016 Kissimmee Auction, set for January 15-24 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida. Two Plymouth Hemi Cuda Convertibles and one Dodge Hemi Challenger R/T Convertible are the featured cars in a field of 31 Hemi-powered vehicles set to cross the auction’s block. Leading...
A new record was set for a Mustang selling at auction during Mecum’s 26th Original Spring Classic, May 14-19, 2013,...
This unique 1938 Mercedes-Benz Gelandesport 170VS is the only remaining example of 10 specially built by the factory to compete...
The only Dragonsnake Cobra equipped at the factory with the Stage III quadruple-Weber carburetion system, this 1965 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2427, was ordered new by Don Reimer of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who—with his younger brother Mike—took delivery of the car from Adams County Motors Corporation. Invoiced to that Gettysburg Ford dealer...
Ford added the latest chapter to its marvelous racing history in 2016, when the second-generation GT scored a victory in...
Mecum Auction will hold its 2009 Original Spring Classic Auction on May 13-17th in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mecum’s 22nd annual Original...
Mecum Auction held its 2009 Original Spring Classic Auction on May 13-17th in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mecum’s 22nd annual Original Spring Classic Auction featured more than 1,000 cars, headlined by the 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe, 1964 Cooper Monaco King Cobra, 1938 Indy Blue Crown Special Racecar,...
Affectionately known as “Big Oly,”—the world’s most renowned Ford Bronco is set to cross the Mecum auction block at Mecum’s...
Mecum’s recent auction in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, held July 31-Aug. 3 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, saw overall sales totals...
Mecum’s recent auction in Dallas, held Sept. 4-7, saw 743 cars change hands in just four action-packed days. Overall sales totals for the event reached $23.5 million as a nearly 70% sell-through rate was achieved with just over 1,000 classic and collector cars crossing the auction block. Top lot of...
Last year, at the close of the most successful World’s Largest Collector Car Auction® in history, Dana Mecum declared that Mecum...
Dubbed “Challenger 2,” this twin-Hemi-powered streamliner holds the certified record run as the fastest naturally aspirated, piston-powered vehicle in history—an...
Automotive history abounds with stories of visionary thinkers whose creations, seemingly destined for greatness, instead became case studies in unrealized potential. One of the most notable of these stories is that of the formidable Cheetah sports racer, the brainchild of legendary California Corvette tuner and self-taught engineer Bill Thomas. One...
British racing star Stirling Moss rocked the Grand Prix establishment in 1958 with his victory in the season-opening Argentinian Grand...
Offered for sale at Mecum Auctions’ Phoenix sale (March 14–17) this 1932 Duesenberg Model J, chassis 2574 and engine J546,...
The Porsche 550A Spyder ranks among the all-time royalty of Porsche history. One of these rare models—one of only 39 built and a three-time race winner during the 1958 season—will head to the auction block at Mecum’s Daytime Auction in Monterey, California, on Aug. 23-25. The 1958 Porsche 550A-0141 Spyder...
