Barrett-Jackson sets new record for an auctioned car
 

Today Barrett-Jackson set the new world record for price for a car auctioned off. It was the Oldsmobile F-88 Concept car that set this record. What was the price? A cool $3,240,000. It was pretty cool seeing history being made here. It was an awesome time http://www.barrett-jackson.com/event....asp?id=178112

i was talking to my friend while he was watching it. they buyer is opening a museum in colorado and he was getting it for that reason. apparently it was a pretty heated bidding war.

I hope you mean a record for an Auctioned car at Barret Jackon...because 250 GTOs sold for 3 times more on quite a few occasions.

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i was just watching it

out of the whole day of show.. only saw like a couple of euro cars.. and they are not that worthy of mentions

They said in the world there, but obviously for Barrett-Jackson too.

Yeah, it's in Durango. There were 3 or 4 other bidders for most of the auction, and then it went down to 2 men going back and forth. IIRC it went to a million in about 30 seconds. But the surprise of the day was the next car, a one off '58 hardtop vette was expected to go for more than the $310k it went for. Don't know why, but it went for far far far less than expected.

I see I wasn't the only one watching that auction. I watch it every year. It is definately more for the american car lover though.

High price ok, but far from the world record :roll:

It was only last year that the Le Mans winning Ferrari 330 TRI sold at auction to Jim Spiro for $6.5 million. And, like Alex already mentioned, GTO's have been selling for even more. I also remember Bugatti's (Atlantic, Royale) fetching higher prices.

Still, it must be the record for an auctioned Oldsmobile and it's an incredible amount of money for a car, period.

The last owner must be laughing all the way to the bank!!!

Id rather an Enzo, Murcielago, Zonda F and wats left go on holidays :D

The guy that bought it does have an Enzo! LOL

There are Canadian Teams as well. :P

I think it's a great car, I love the styling, I've always been a fan of tail fins. The Rocket V8 powering it was a great engine as well.