Mecum auction

LOL! thank you barbee6043 for that vote of confidence... years ago (late 1980's) when i began practicing law, i toyed with the idea of buying various old "muscle cars" that i grew up with from 1965-1975. i knew the 1973 gas crisis had forever changed the American car industry and that the "muscle car era" would never be repeated. at that time, almost EVERYTHING was just "an old car" - even Shelby Mustangs and Cobra's and LS-6 Chevelle's. Hemi Cuda's could be found in "auto trader" magazines for $2-$3k dollars and pretty much any other model or drive train combination were lying around used car lots. every "old guy" has a story about buying a driveable split-window 63 corvette for $2500. those stories are true, i know, i bought three split window's in the mid-1970's each around that price. i couldn't buy a used Hundai today for what i sold all three split-window's for. but life has a way of taking people in all sorts of directions they never imagine and i never pursued my "old muscle car storage garage." some of the most hated and "worthless" cars in the mid-70's are "gold-plated" today. for ten years after the Plymouth Superbird's were introduced (1970-1980), dealers and owners couldn't GIVE those cars away! and the "Boss 429 Mustang?" THAT car was a complete flop and sales disaster when it was introduced. the motor was so complicated and difficult to keep running you couldn't drive the car at all on the street like a "regular" car. and it wasn't even a great street racer. any well-tuned mopar 440 6 pack or hemi or even a 375 hp 396 Camaro would blow "the Boss" into the weeds on any given Friday night. the only place that car shinned was on the drag strip, but us kids needed to drive our "race cars" to high school every day so if the Boss 429 was a real "bad ***" on the strip, that didn't mean much to us. there were all kinds of things in the late 50's, 60's and 70's that a person could have gotten rich with. a little hamburger joint called McDonald's or a bunch of gas-guzzling old Detroit muscle cars. as they say, "who knew?"