I’m forwarding this message from Keith Boonstra, who’s at Hershey this week - specifically at the RMSothebys auction yesterday and today.
Noel
There is a beautiful red G convertible going over the block here at Hershey tonight. RM is estimating it to hammer at 125 to 150K. I do not know who is offering it.
If anyone is interested in watching any of the auction live online, you can go to
rmsothebys.com and open the Hershey auction page. You will find a button to click on that page that says “Watch Live”. The auction is scheduled to start at 5:30 today with miscellania taking up perhaps the first hour before the cars come on.
The G is Lot 381, so that might bring it over the block at something like 7:30pm.
I sold a couple of cars there last evening. Interesting to sense that there is some considerable softening of values on the grand old classics. Not surprising as the biggest fans of those are aging out, and they are selling instead of adding now. That happens.
Interesting on the upside, however, was a 29K mile restored gold ‘59 Plymouth convertible. It hammered at 190K to the sound of wows throughout the audience. That’s 209K the buyer paid with the premium. Mopars of that era don’t lack for collector interest..
Keith Boonstra
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