Monday, October 7, 2019

Friday - Barrett/Jackson

After breakfast from the cooler, we took a LYFT ride over to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and found our way to the Barrett-Jackson Auction. This whole place is enormous! We paid $30 for admission and another $20 for the catalogue (which is like coffee table book!).

The hall is unbelievable! There are more than 800 cars in here! They are all organized in numbered rows which coincides with the docket sheet for the day. So if you want to look at a car that's coming up, you can find it. There are cars of all kinds - daily drivers, restorations, exotic, luxury, you name it.

This is no reserve auction which means that every single car here will be sold! The auctioneers are amazing! They don't waste any time, maybe just a couple of minutes on each car. We wonder how they will get all these cars through by the end of the day. My favorite car was a 2007 Mustang that has 150 miles on it......sold for $30,800. Sam's was a 2007 wine colored Masarati Quattroporte.

(A fews days after the auction you can log into the BJ website and find out what they sold for).

In addition to the car auction, on Thursday they have a Automobilia Auction. There's also have a trade show with companies peddling tools, lifts, workbenches...all kids of cool stuff!

THIS IS AN AWESOME EVENT AND WE'RE SO GLAD WE CAME!!

You can only look at so many cars, so mid afternoon we went back into the Mandalay Hotel and went through the Shark Reef Aquarium which was very cool indeed.

We took LYFT back to our hotel, put our feet up for few minutes, then went out to Freemont Street and had dinner at the Heart Attack Grill....quite a theme!
























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