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What Are The Highlights Of Mecum Kissimmee Auction? | Mecum Kissimmee 2024 | CORVETTE TODAY #242
May 9, 2025
To learn more about what are the highlights of Mecum Kissimmee 2024 and Mecum Kissimmee Auction, please feel free to visit our YouTube channel.
This video covers what are the highlights of Mecum Kissimmee Auction, along with the following topics:
- Mecum Kissimmee Auction 2024
- Where is the Mecum Auction Kissimmee 2024?
- Mecum Collector Car Auction
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Every year, the Mecum Kissimmee show is the largest show that the Mecum Auction puts on. And this year's show will be bigger and better than ever!
John Kraman, Mecum's TV host is back on CORVETTE TODAY with your host, Steve Garrett, to overview this upcoming show.
John talks about this history of the Mecum Kissimmee show along with significant Corvettes and other collector cars that will cross the auction block.
Kraman also previews some of the significant collections (including a collection of '63 Split Window Corvettes) that will be sold at Mecum Kissimmee.
Friday, January 10th is Corvette Day at Mecum Kissimmee. Join us for a Meet & Greet with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger that day!
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around the world a personal friend of mine and a great friend of the show John kraman TV host of the meum auctions is
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back on Corvette today to give us a preview of the largest meum show of the new year meum CMI John it's great to
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have you back on Corvette today buddy man it is my pleasure you know I just have to give you so much credit Steve
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for just the significance of Corvette today as a lifelong Corvette fan as you know you and I are friends as well owner
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of three Corvettes myself your show really is the gold standard really for
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getting upto-date information the relationships that you have made over the years with virtually everybody in
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the Corvette Community really pays off for all of us that are Corvette nuts for
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me to be included on your show from time time to time it is my pleasure and something I really look forward to my
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friend thanks for having me buddy always buddy it's an honor and a pleasure you're always welcome on Corvette today
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you just let me know when you can be there and you're on well buddy let's talk about meikum CMI give me some dates the venue the
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location the times the weekdays and where you can buy tickets yeah you know what's really crazy Steve over the years
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since 1988 M auctions has grown to be the world's largest collect car auction by far but it's Flagship now going into
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our 26th year in cimi Florida which is actually Orlando location over the years
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has changed it's now our permanent home is Oola Heritage Park they've done a lot of work there to accommodate what we do
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where we host in fact the world's single largest elctric car auction this year Steve it's going to run 13 days straight
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almost two weeks straight wow it goes January 7th through the 19th our Target
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as far as total number of Consignments are you're sitting down about 40 500 cars as of this morning I checked in
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with the consignment department for an up-to-date number on where we're at about 3500 cars already confined wow
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yeah it's crazy and just to put the icing on the cake and everybody know just how big and important auction was
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we go back to mikum cmbi 2024 that would be January of this year where we celebrated 25 years of auctions in cm by
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meum we did $270 million in the sale of collector
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Vehicles no Auction Company in the world before or since that has even come close
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to that kind of a number and hold your breath cross your fingers we're looking at exceeding that number as we typically
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like to do we keep resetting our targets as we move into the new year crazy man that's awesome buddy now if somebody
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can't make it down to Orlando CMI where can they watch it on TV they can watch it on TV we'll be on Motor Trend with
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our normal crew myself as the lead TV commentator analyst can you believe it man starting my 18th year mlof in the
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hot sea yeah thanks buddy and then with of course Scott hul is my host and then three great floor reporters Bill Stevens
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Danielle trada and Chris Jacobs everybody knows Chris from over Halland he's a great guy really proud of this
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team and the way we bring the action accurately and with relevance to our viewers and again man 18 years of doing
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it as a lifelong car guy what an honor and a thrill it is for me I mean I'm a Corvette guy and a muscle car guy and a
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50s car primarily but we see everything literally from A to Z there so we kick off 30 hours of television on Motor
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Trend TV we also stream on Max HBO Max that kicks off on January 9th auction
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does start January 7th so we'll have plenty of action plenty of ways for folks to watch if they can't make it and
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then there's always go to mom.com and watch the streaming service now it's not the TV show there's no commentary any
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that but you see the auction you hear the auctioner you see the cars you see descriptions of the cars you see mult
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multiple camera views and most importantly you hear the bidding up to the point whether what the high bid is
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or whether the vehicle sells Steve that's 100% free it's got gavel to gavel
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action all you got to do is go to mom.com log into your my meum account which is totally 100% free you just need
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to put in your email address and boom you are in our system and are able to watch the streaming service gav to gavel
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in addition obviously to what we do on the television side buddy I'd love watching that if you're out on Motor Trend I'm watching on me.com right me
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too the only thing we're missing is you and Scott and everybody else but it's always fun to watch it if you're not on
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Motor Trend TV or on Max right on brother let's talk about the history of CMI how many cars you've got consigned
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right now I know you said you're 3500 what's your target for KMI well we
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always put an aggressive Target we always raise the bar and just because we put a Target or a number out there
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doesn't mean that either we're going to hit it or it's possible we could go over it we just set a Target so for mikum CMI
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2025 the published Target of number of Consignments is a record whopping
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4,500 cars wow we've never set a Target like that before but as of today and
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we're still quite a ways out as of today we are just a few cars over 3500 entries
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and we know from history that the last 30 days of our massive Consignment apartment they're literally in a process
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of working overtime to get everybody into that auction that wants to part participate so certainly we're going to
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be well north of 4,000 and we may even be very close to our aggressive Target at
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4,500 amazing how many years have you guys been doing mikum CMI well you know keep in mind mikum has been in business
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since 1988 this our 26 year in CMI and it's funny Steve how it's grown to be
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our single largest auction and we do a lot of internal reflection on why that is why is CMI so big and we've got
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venues as you know all over the country we do about 16 auctions a year and we make it convenient for everybody who
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wants to buy or sell or spectate at a meum auction from a location standpoint but there's something very special about
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Central Florida in January after the holidays where we're getting multiple demographics now we know there's a lot
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of folks in Florida that are car folks meum fans so we've got a you know pretty strong built-in carnut population there
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but what's astonishing is so many people come from two of our biggest areas they come down from the Northeast and they
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come down from the Midwest in droves and I'm not kidding they bring their families they bring motor homes they
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come down for a couple weeks they come here as part of a vacation plan with obviously all the things there is to do
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with kids and grandkids and everything else so it's evolved as time goes on it's evolved into a major Automotive
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happening the crowds the layout the volume of the cars the quality of the cars just the overall General excitement
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of mum CMI honestly Steve must be experienced to be believed it is a
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celebration of the automobile extraordinaire and once somebody goes
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and they experience the magic of it the excitement of it it's something that they want to go to every year absolutely
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I know I came last year had such a blast we're coming back down again this year for Corvette day on Friday January 10th
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we're going to have Corvette today and a meet and greet with me and Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com so that'll be fun oh man so glad to have
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you brother so glad I'm looking forward to it just like you said Florida in January sounds pretty Prett darn good
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John indeed tell me about consigning a car for mikum CMI and how you can either
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consign or become a buyer right it is very straightforward you know over time we've streamlined and made our
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Consignment and our bidder process very easy and seamless and I think you know Steve part of that comes from the fact
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that going back to the originator back to 1988 Dana mikum had a vision to have
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a collector car auction company still our president heavily involved in our company today is for are involved and
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all have very prominent roles in the management of our company as well but my point is it's a family organization and
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it's a Midwest based organization our corporate offices in Walworth Wisconsin I say that to sort of make the beginning
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to answer your question of we're very trusting we believe in honor and doing business on a handshake so we make it
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very simple for folks to either sign up as a bidder or sign up as a consigner we'll start with the consigner process
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first because that's really what we are Steve we're a consignment machine nothing at all happens within our meum
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organization without getting the inventory the Consignments you know having you know the food on the shelves at the grocery store so to speak right
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so very simple you've got basically one of two choices it's very easy to go online look at all the data and the
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entry information that's online there's a form you can fill out online that's very straightforward about your car and
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the information of it and you send that in and get an immediate response back or even better my personal individual
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preference is to call and talk to somebody within our consignment Department which are springloaded at all
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time to take folks calls and you know the conversation typically revolves around one of two things number one no
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shocker what's my car worth yeah and number two what auction do I bring it to
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and so the good news is the consignment Department being full-time and heavily experienced and knowledgeable on how to
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talk to folks about their cars how to help them look at what the value of the car might be realistically what we think
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would be a realistic Target a reserve price which we are a reserve auction where folks are able to put a protected
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or reserve price or they can sell no Reserve they have options and I'll talk about that in the commission structure here in just a few moments big decisions
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I just have to tell you it's low pressure nobody is pressured into it at all and I'll tell you why selling a
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collector vehicle or a collection more about collections in a moment selling a vehicle is an emotional decision we get
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that and not everybody when they first Contact us are ready to sell their car or cars that they've had for a long
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period of time we understand that and we get that and we never try to talk somebody out of selling their car they
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have to make that personal decision on their own but once they've made that decision Steve once they've crossed over
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and they've decided yes I either want or need to sell the car that's when we go into high gear and that's when we kind
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of shift people over into our what we call our hot list where we need to make sure that we're providing as much
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information as we can to that potential consigner so that he feels comfortable understanding all the nuances of I guess
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we call it all the pluses and minuses of consigning the car and actually bringing it to the auction so here's how it works
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very simple you cons sign a car to make them auctions you pay an entry Fey you pay a set fee and the set fee depends on
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the auction the day actually the time of the day and the value of the car and we
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do that because we call it Inventory management we want to make sure that we've got positions available that are
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affordable for folks of a collector car of all values you know we talk a lot about the high-end car and you and I are
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going to talk a bit about that here in just a few moments sure some of the moments where we really rang the bell on cars some of the upcoming cars coming to
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cassim that're really expensive but the reality is you know the average price of a car that we sell to mum auction is
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about 50 $52,000 that's kind of in the affordable Sweet Spot which meaning there's plenty
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of cars under that number entry fees start at $350 to get your car into the auction and they go all the way up to
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$1,500 with some steps in between that and you get different things you get different things for those different
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steps all that of course is explained on the website and from a consignment agent so you pick your day and your time based
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on the value the car you pay the entry fee and boom you are in the auction the second level of fees that get incurred
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are if the vehicle sells and it's Steve it's simple if it sells the gabble drops we sell your car we collect 10% of the
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hammer price if it does not sell on the Block we sell about 70% of the cars on
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the block by the way then you just take your home or it still may sell we have
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What's called the bid goes on process which is six guys full-time that are there that continue to work that roughly
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30% of vehicles that don't sell on the Block and that represents about another 10% of our sales that could be the same
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day the next day three four days later but bottom line is if it doesn't sell you just take your vehicle home you've
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not signed over the title you've done nothing at all to Mar the ownership of your vehicle kind of like bringing it to
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a car show you showed off you're given it a shot no harm no foul you take it home and everybody lives to see another
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day so it's a very straightforward easy to understand process I mentioned no Reserve all of those variables are the
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same with no Reserve with one big exception instead of that 10% fee that you pay we only collect a 6% fee on a
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vehicle or a collection that goes no Reserve absolute sale it takes a lot of soul searching it's a lot of money
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especially if you've got an expensive car or a big collection a lot of money to be saved by going no reserve and
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again that's best that's a strategy best discussed with the consignment agent you and I could do a whole show on just that
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topic alone absolutely and but you know for me watching so many meum shows on
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television I noticed that a lot of cars are sold over the phone or over the Internet talk about that because that's
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very prominent now with your auctions right ever since the pandemic our online bidding has exploded and we've got a
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very good program set up to allow somebody to either we call it absentee bidding it's either via telephone or by
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the internet pre pandemic it only used to represent somewhere between 3 and 5% of our total bidding activity was on
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either the telephone or the internet but what's happened is with the pandemic and with us actually fine-tuning and
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improving our hardware and our software to make it a more seamless experience the participation is in the 20 to 25%
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range wow so a lot of our biders are really anxious to take advantage of that we're accommodating that and I think
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it's important Steve you I'm glad you that question because we know that there's auction companies out there that are operating online only the reality is
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is we think that the excitement of a live auction but also being able to offer the online opportunity as well as
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telephone opportunities gives us a greater depth we're still obviously playing on our Passion of the excitement
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of a live auction a televised live auction even better but yet for those folks that either don't want to come or
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can't come we make it good for them as well we feel like it's the best of all worlds and with the kind of growth
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frankly mom auctions has seen consistently over the years I think that our strategy is really really working
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well not bragging but it is what it is brother yeah it's really working well because I watch and you see so many
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people buying over the phone or on the Internet it's really become an integral part of every meum auction yes indeed
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buddy let's take our first break when we come back we're going to talk about highlights from the meum auction for 2024 that's coming up next on Corvette
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is my pal John kraman from the meum auctions we're talking about everything
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meum CMI John 2024 has been a record year for the meikum auctions talk about
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the shows that you've done this year how many cars have been sold and what's mum's Revenue number again well the good
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news is Steve yeah I mentioned earlier $270 million a new record at our meikum
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CM auction which kicks off our new calendar year our fiscal year ends the
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end of February so if we go back to last year so this would be our Target that
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we're looking forward to in the New Year this would be post semi 2025 by the way
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was $785 million in the sale of collector Vehicles now let me just say that that
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includes collector vehicles and includes everything that we do at a mum auction which also includes what we call Road
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art that's our memory memorabilia department but that's a massive part of what we do because so many car
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collectors love memorabilia they love to dress their man caves and garages up and have a much more affordable piece to
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take home with them at a mom auction so we load mom auctions up with a ton of that stuff it's a great service but $785
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million is going to be our sales rate from last year we're going to know the new number obviously sometime probably
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within the first week or 10 days or so in March but based on the success that we've had so far of virtually all of our
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auctions either being record auctions or second best auctions of all time as we
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kind of go back in history of all the auctions that we've had so far knock on wood and I'm doing it here man we are
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poised to once again have a record year as we're approaching we're not there yet
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at 785 million as we're approaching the1 billion Mark that's what we're hoping
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for that's an aggressive goal but man it's there it's in our sites it's going
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to be major party time it's not if but when we hit that magic Milestone brother
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pretty amazing buddy indeed are there shows from this year that really stand out in your mind that were record
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Setters or Revenue Setters or things like that from 2024 you know I got to mention one auction Steve and I got to
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mention two particular vehicles from that on behalf of meum auctions I do a lot of speaking to various groups car
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clubs business meetings where I talk about the history and meum auctions and kind of fine tun to obviously to the
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group I just have to say that this year it was all about our smallest auction in
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Total Car count but our largest individual auction as far as per dollar car amount that's our maika Monteray
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auction held during Monterey historics out in Monterey California the world celebration of cars it's not even a week
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anymore goes on for like 11 days now mum's one of the big players out there and we absolutely killed it there this
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year Steve you know we go back to 2010 long time ago at montere we set a record
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for the single highest pric car ever sold in mik MO I'll tell you what it was 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra o driven to
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Lem man's victory in its class by none other than racing Legend and a-lister
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Bob bandr Bob bandr was there at the auction and drove that car that he drove
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to victory in ' 65 this is 2010 he drove that car up onto the auction block and
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was greeted by Miss H golden shifter to Linda vaugh we brought her in there with longtime friends she greeted him as he
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brought the car up and it brought 725 million wow a lot of money right
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yeah okay so that was mum's alltime single Vehicle Record all the way from 2010 up until montere 2024 where we
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absolutely crushed obliterated that record dollar amount we sold one car
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I'll tell you what it is sold one car for 17,8 $75,000 it was a 1963 Ferrari 250 GT
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California only 55 were built between 1960 and 1963 it's a Holy Grail yeah of
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vintage Ferraris it absolutely sent shock waves through the collect car
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world that meum could hit a classic Ferrari out of the ballpark like that
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but then not to show that it's not a fluke Steve in the muscle car world not a Corvette we sold a 1969 Dodge Daytona
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Hemi for speed f8 green very well-known car in the Mopar Community regarded as
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the highest option Hemi Daytona in existance and after a crazy wild bitter
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battle that we covered on TV it was unbelievable the action it hammered for
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$3 million amazing muscle cars are alive
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and well is all I can say to anybody that might think that muscle cars from
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50 60 years ago have passed their Prime nothing could be further from the truth
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those are a couple of cars that are just going to always stand out in my mind at that auction that had us all shaking our
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heads just so proud to be a part of calling the action on those cars while it was happening you still hear the
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excitement obviously and the pride in my voice right now yeah definitely talk about some of the significant Corvettes
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that have crossed the meum auction block this year cuz I know just recently one of the Corvettes I think it was an L88
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sold for $419,000 yeah you know as is typical you know keep in mind Steve Corvettes number
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one most plentiful vehicle on the meikum auction block number one nice approximately 10% of the total inventory
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to mikum auction are Corvettes we've got entry-level C4 Corvettes for under $10,000 all the way on to the world's
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best you mentioned the L88 at over $400,000 Not Unusual to see cars like
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that at a meum auction I want to brag and I want to talk about one sale the big part of Corvette history and how
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it's come full circle and where we're at today recognizing the significance
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specifically of the Corvette brand after now what 71 years yeah let's go to meum
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Dallas this year where we had what I'm going to go ahead and call I'll kind of tip my hat a little bit the most
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significant C7 Corvette ever of all time we all know 2014 to 2019 you as a former
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owner of a C7 know what a wonderful car that was but it reached its Pinnacle
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with one year 2019 the final year the ZR1 incredible supercharged 755
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horsepower engine available with manuals and automatics scoups and convertibles and we know that forever that car is
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going to go down in Corvette history as the most potent conventional which would be front engine Corvette of all time
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that car is never going to be repeated and we know that and we know that the prices of the zr1's have been just
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steadily climbing oh yeah but there's one in particular Steve don't know if you caught it or not one in particular
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that paid off big time for the Visionary owner that ordered this car brand new he knew it would be the very last C7
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Corvette built which means that it would be the last front engine Corvette ever built he selected the seven-speed manual
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transmission meaning that it was the last manual transmission Corvette ever built right okay and he ordered it in
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arctic white with a red interior to pay homage to the original Corvette from
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1953 all 300 of the original Corvettes 53 71 years ago were all Polo white with
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the red and ior he knew that obviously it paid off in a huge way a lot of
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speculation on exactly what that car was going to sell for but bringing well over
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double the MSRP about 10 miles on the odometer by the way for a car that virtually will never be driven Steve
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yeah that car is going to be in and out of collections as a Showcase of the end of the line of a incredible Run America
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sports car and that was just another thrill to see that car have some interaction with the owner how happy he
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was both before and after the sale another example of meum just kind of leading away on significant Corvettes
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and with over 400 Corvettes coming up for CMI we're setting the stage knock on wood again for another potential not
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only a big CMI but another big Corvette CMI buddy I tell you what that leads me right into the next set of questions
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let's take our final break John when we come back we'll talk about the Corvettes and other significant cars coming up in
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is my pal John kraman the meum auction TV post we are talking about mikum CMI
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2025 coming up John first off let's talk about some of the significant Corvettes
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they're going to be Crossing The Auction Block at mikum CMI 2025 yeah no shortage
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of really cool high-end Corvettes one of our main attractions is the very last
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l72 a legendary 427 425 horsepower engine it was the first year of the 427
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with its availability in the Corvette big block was 65 with the 396 but it grew up even to this day that l72 425
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horsepower 427 has a Mystique in the Corvette World and we've got the very last 66 convertible that was built it's
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been through ncrs judging and all that stuff it's a great color in red it's obviously fully restored that's one that
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gets my attention but even more so Steve even more so than that are the incredible Corvette collections that
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we've got coming now we've got over 30 distinct Collections and we're talking everything literally from A to Z pre-war
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Classics 50 Customs contemporary performance cars European Exotics from
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virtually all generations but man we've got some Corvette collections that are almost too good to be true you know one
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of the real hot markets today in not only just the Corvette World but in the
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overall collector car world is the split window Corvette one year only 1963 the
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debut of the coupe we've got a collection coming to CMI called the split window colorama 2 collection
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that's got about a dozen split window Corvettes that represent some of the best of the world I mean we're talking
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about fuel injected versions we're talking about a variety of colors air conditioning which made its debut in the
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Corvette in 1963 under 300 were built I mean it's a rare option there's actually two of
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those cars with air conditioning even one with the down Market base engine that's rarely seen can you believe it a
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modest 250 horsepower 350 that was the standard base engine in the corbetta 1963 rarely seen out of a variety of
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higher horsepower engines usually got those option boxes checked off yeah I can tell you that collection is going to
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get a massive amount of attention in addition to other collections that have
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a wide variety of Corvettes from virtually all generations generation one
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all the way through the current day and I just want to say that a lot of people Steve we talk about Corvettes and the
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Corvette Market how well it's doing a lot of these conversations go to the C8 you've got one I've got one we pay a
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little bit more attention to the market as a result of that but I know mine's not for sale I don't think yours is either no sir but the reality is this
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right now Chevrolet is approaching near record volume sales levels annually you
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know in the 50,000 car range right they are pumping these cars out and there's a
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lot of availability right now which I consider to be a very good thing the good news for a potential C8 buyer is
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this is a really super good time to buy a C8 oh yeah the prices have settled they're right in line and I just wanted
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to as a C8 Enthusiast and I love mine like you do yours just let folks know that if you're thinking about a C8
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Corvette new or pre-owned man this is the time to buy because the prices
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definitely are down to a level that not only makes it more affordable but overall makes it easier to get into and
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easier to justify yeah than obviously the over MSRP and the huge premiums that
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we saw in the early years of the C8 Corvette which of course began in 2020 now is the time to buy a C8 there's some
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great pricing out there buddy indeed how about some of the significant non Corvettes coming up obviously Steve no
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shortage of those as well but you know man I talked about at Monterey 24 the record of that 63 Ferrari 250 GT at just
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under $18 million man we've got the potential to break that at meikum CMI
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and to smash it by a wide margin perhaps the most significant collector car of
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all time don't even necessarily have to be a Corvette Enthusiast to understand what the significance of this particular
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car is and of course that is the 1969 Porsche 917k Steve McQueen's hero car
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from the movie lemons the number 20 car it is a real deal it is totally
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documented no questions about the history or the pedigree of this car the movie was a sensation when it came out
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today it's a cult favorite the 917 dominated the world sports car racing
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beginning in 69 and running through really the mid 1970s including Can-Am racing here in the US it's a landmark
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car this specific car puts it at the very highest level because it's part of American pop culture totally expecting
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that car to hammer at a number that would be a new alltime meum record we're
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actually doing a television special don't know the air date yet on that car and the history of it that we'll be airing on Motor Trend TV in addition to
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that something a little bit more affordable and more Whimsical but it's also a pop culture celebrity connection
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how about the 1967 Jaguar e type the shaguar Roadster it was featured in all
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three of the Austin Power movies the Union Jack painted up Jaguar Roadster that Austin poers cruised around and did
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his escapades in again the car Ironclad documented not going to be put on the
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same kind of pedestal obviously as the 917k but certainly it's going to be a few levels more affordable and then
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everything from Shelby Cobras to Ferraris to again high-end Corvettes of
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all generations the list and the quality of the cars that we put under what we
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call Steve our main attraction Banner which can be looked up at mom.com we'll give folks a chance to see and put their
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finger on the pulse of literally some of the world's best collector cars coming to the world's largest collector car
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auction everything is in place my friend to have another record event and I'm so glad that you and Keith are going to be
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there with some folks from Corvette today I'll obviously be there on the TV side of things and thousands of
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thousands of folks there soaking up the Florida Sun in the middle of winter and living the good life brother can't wait
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buddy I can't wait hey John you know you talked about some of the collections coming across the block there's some
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really good ones the Michael J collection bill and Patty Sperling have a collection that are coming to the auction block are there any other
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significant ones that stand out in your mind yeah lots of them Steve it's just incredible what's happening with these
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Collections and let me tell you why collections are so important generally speaking these are all high-end
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collectors the ones that you mentioned in addition to many more which Linley and my pal who's passed away Cliff erns
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I mean more like I say 30 collections but these cars from these aess collectors represent really the finest
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carefully selected most important individual cars of their category coming
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to mikum CMI in mass and what happens is once we do a good job with a high-end
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collection it draws others that want to get on board with the same thing right and it's typically collector waiting for
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a high point in the colle Car World to maybe sell their collection maybe they kind of aged out to the point where they
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want to be a part of the promotion and the sale of that collection or in some cases and we work with consigners for
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years to get to this point that are coming out of Estates and this is all part of the meum strategy as we move
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forward to continue to grow and to offer phenomenal cars to our bidder base As
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Time Marches On every meum auction has collections but none have the sheer volume of high-end collections that we
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do at meikum cini that includes everything I mentioned earlier Corvettes and pre-war Classics and duesenbergs
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over 100 Years of Automotive History are represented in all of these collections even if somebody's not a buyer you watch
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it on TV I recommend going to the auction I call it a car show with a pulse it's unlike any car show anybody's
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everever attended the cars that are moving the action that occurs both on the auction block and just with the cars
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moving around the venue talking with the owners talking with other enthusiasts it's more than just a collector car
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auction it's it's a true happening and you and I are going to be there to take it all in brother buddy I can't wait I
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honestly can't wait all right John Let's wrap it up where can people preview everything coming up for the KMI show
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easy peasy Steve me.com for so much information it is so easy to navigate the website look at things and I just
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appraisers and guide books and people's opinions but the bottom line is if you go to mom.com log into your my meum
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descriptions what they sold for or what the high bid was in addition Steve to everything else that's coming to the
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meum auctions in the future it's awesome buddy that is awesome and it is easy peasy for sure me.com buddy thank you so
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much for taking the time to be on Corvette today I am super excited about coming down to CMI to hang out with you
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and everybody else at the show well we appreciate Steve your interest and your enthusiasm man we'll see you down there
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