Mecum Auction held its 2009 Original Spring Classic Auction on May 13-17th in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mecum’s 22nd annual Original Spring...
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.
Mecum Auctions made quite a statement at their inaugural Seattle auction, the weekend of June 14-15, with the record-setting sale...
Just three and a half years after the first Shelby Cobra emerged from a rented shop in Venice, California, Carroll Shelby and his brilliant team of grassroots, high-performance technocrats won the FIA World Manufacturers Championship of Makes for GT cars, the first ever for an American manufacturer. This unprecedented feat,...
Mecum Auction held the St. Charles Auction on October 1-4, 2009 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Ilinois,...
Mecum Auction held its Kansas City Auction, Spring 2010 on April 9-10 at Kansas City Convention Center/Bartle Hall, with total...
The Mecum Harrisburg 2016 auction was held July 21-23 at the Farm Show Complex and ExpoCenter in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resulting in $16.7 million in total sales and a 70 percent sell-through rate. The top result at the Mecum Harrisburg 2016 sale went to a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429 Fastback...
Mecum Auctions’ inaugural Los Angeles classic and collector-car auction realized more than $9.3 million in sales in late February. Despite...
Mecum Auctions has announced that more than 50 cars from the Academy of Art University museum will cross the Las...
The Mecum Dallas 2015 auction was held September 16-19 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, resulting in $24,809,893 in total sales. “This year’s lineup was very diverse with great examples from nearly every category of collectability,” said Mecum Consignment Director Frank Mecum. “Whether you were after...
The Mecum Auctions Chicago 2014 sale was held October 9-11 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Illinois, resulting in $15,267,644...
Mecum’s Chicago 2018 classic and collector car auction (Oct. 25–27) enjoyed an overall sales total of $17.5 million, which constituted...
The Mecum Kansas City Spring 2016 auction was held March 11-12 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, resulting in $10,212,687 in total sales and a 72 percent sell-through rate. A total of 409 automobiles were purchased during the three-day auction, which saw a 15 percent increase...
The Mecum Chicago 2016 auction was held October 6-8 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Illinois, resulting in $10.5...
One of the crown jewels of Carroll Shelby’s personal collection, this 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra, CSX3178, was owned by Carroll...
The Mecum Kansas City 2014 Auction was held December 4-6 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, resulting in $8,253,041 in total sales and a sell-through rate of nearly 70 percent. A total of 382 automobiles were purchased during the three-day auction. A 2005 Ford GT took...
Automotive history abounds with stories of visionary thinkers whose creations, seemingly destined for greatness, instead became case studies in unrealized...
The Porsche 356A Convertible D (“D” standing for Drauz, the coachbuilder) is arguably the rarest “production” Porsche 356 model ever...
The Mecum Kissimmee 2020 auction was held January 2-12 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, resulting in $105 million in total sales. A total of 2,140 vehicles were sold over the 11-day event. The top result at Mecum’s 2020 Kissimmee sale went to the headline 1968 Ford Mustang GT...
The Mecum Anaheim 2016 sale was held November 17-19 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, resulting in more than...
A motorcycle once owned and ridden by Steve McQueen will be among the headline offerings at the 2013 Mecum Anaheim...
Mecum Auctions, Austin, Texas December 12-13, 2014 Mecum Auctions’ approach is unusual, even unique. They troll around the country, trying locations, developing them – and along the way the collector car market in places where it’s been overlooked – bringing their high-energy Velocity TV production. Mecum has produced blockbuster results...
The 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake will be among the headline entries at the 2013 Mecum Original Spring Classic Auction,...
Last year, at the close of the most successful World’s Largest Collector Car Auction® in history, Dana Mecum declared that Mecum...
Mecum Auctions held their third annual Monterey Auction on August 18-20, 2011 at the Del Monte Golf Course in Monterey California, resulting in nearly $25 million in gross sales and a 65% sell-through rate. More than 700 vehicles crossed the auction block at 2011 Mecum Monterey, headlined by the top...
Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to...
More than 1,200 of the finest collectible Road Art items ever offered at public auction will come together this October...
The Mecum Dallas 2014 Auction was held September 3-6 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, resulting in $31,428,039 in total sales and a 66.3% sell-through rate. In only its fourth year, Mecum’s Dallas auction has become one of the largest sales on the Mecum Auctions’ calendar...
Mecum’s Los Angeles 2018 collector-car auction, held this past weekend at the L.A. County Fairplex in Pomona, California, achieved $9...
Mecum Auctions registered $20 million in overall sales when it returned to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, last week with 858 vehicles on...
Muscle cars dominated the top sellers at Mecum Auctions’ inaugural Portland auction, held Father’s Day weekend at the Portland Expo Center. Some 300 vehicles were hammered sold for a total of more than $9.3 million, with a 1965 Shelby Mustang GT350 Fastback pulling in the highest bid of $305,000. “The...
