Laddies and gentlewomen: Here is your line-up for the cars to watch. Remember. This is an exhibition, not a competition. No betting allowed (unless someone wants to start a contest or sumthin…).
69 Eliminator Tribute w/ 4 spd
Lot 51.1
69 XR7 Convt. M-code
Lot 55.2
69 Convt.
Lot 623.1
69 XR7 Convt. M-code
Lot 642
70 XR7 Convt. Q-code 428CJ 4 spd 3.50 Trac-loc
Lot 953.2
Good luck to the sellers, and buyers.
Wow, lots of 69’s. Didn’t we see the gold 70 vert not long ago?
No 67’s or 68’s?!?! Wow that’s a bit of a bummer.
Well if i had money
Tell you what I’d do
I’d go to Scottsdale and buy a Cat-Vert with Q 
Crazy bout a Mercury
Lord I’m crazy bout a Mercury
I’m gonna buy me a Mercury
And cruise it up and down the road 
Good one!! 
I like lot 642, looks like the best 1969 in the line up.
I’m liking that one too. Says the Ariz Club president looked it over. Anyone know the car? Is it blue (as stated in auction) or Aqua? Looks Aqua to me. Nice options (assuming Pwr Windows work). Unmolested… this could be the sleeper that gets some high bids.
I’d have to go with the 70 Q 953.2 since that is the color of the vert that I am building currently, except I have a black interior, 3 speed and the 351C 2V. Funny thing is that I could probably have afford to bid this one at least in the beginning stages,if I would have just saved my $$$, but then I would have missed out on all those fond memories of mismatched repro quarters and water sanding. LOL loving every minute of it. Sal
Thought I’d update this thread with results discussed elsewhere…
Lot 51.1 the 69 Eliminator Tribute w/ 4 spd sold for $33k including buyer’s commission. Assuming buyer was present, that’s a hammer price of 30k.
Lot 55.2 - the black 69 XR7 Convt. M-code sold for $36.3k (hammer 33k).
Congrats to buyer* and sellers!
The next ones - if I’m reading things right, should come up early on Thursday.
The CJ 4spd convt looks like early/mid Friday. Can anyone better estimate that one?
*xr7g428 reports same person won both and is "one of us… one of us… one of us…
Well… apparently it was too cold for my plane to leave Duluth. Rebooking thru Chicago… losing half-a-day…
At least I got to see 642 cross the block via webstream.
Lot 623.1 went for 14,850 (13500 hammer)
Lot 642 sold for 36.3k (33K Hammer price)
Lot 51 and 55 both bought by Darren (Mr. Vacuum man) for a client of his. The red convertible looked like a good deal to me! The aqua convertible was too much aqua to comprehend IMO. Seller claimed it was inspected by the AZ cougar club, but it wasn’t by me…$33K was good money for that car for both the buy and seller. The real gem of the auction is the 428CJ 4 speed cougar, one of just 17 made, and 9 known to still exist. Amazing restoration on that one. Hopefully it will crack 6 figures. Also, at the local Pavillions car show on Saturday (before the auction started) Jim Wicks from Oklahoma was here with his 1971 429CJ XR7 convertible, 4 speed Cougar, C code, 1 of just 5 made! Dark Green, ginger interior, and an amazing restoration on it. It isn’t officially going thru any auctions, but it is for sale.
The '71 CJ convert was a regular at the Tulsa dragstrip back in the eighties and early nineties. Quite the sleeper, the car was much faster than it looked. Had some serious aftermarket speed parts underhood, but relatively stock exterior/interior. Then it was parked for several years before Jim acquired it and undertook the restoration.
I haven’t seen it since the resto. I hope someone gets some pics.
I’m sure I have some pictures, somewhere, of the car at the drags. I’ll try to dig them out and get them scanned.
I’d say 632.1 was well bought.
Lot 953.2 the 1970 CJ Vert has sold for ??? Speed decided to show a Chevy commercial and some stupid skit about glasses. Really pisses me off, waited all afternoon for nothing. 
Sold 104,500…
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/mobilelotdetails.aspx?aid=443&ln=953.2&it=1 here’s details
The CJ was a very nice car. I think the color and the non-ram air held it back by $20k in my humble opinion!
I agree Scott. It makes me mad the way BJ lines up the commercials. They did the same type of thing with Brian’s “Gunner” GT-E last year. That was more returning from commercial though. They always find TV air time for Corvettes, tri-five Chevys. I guess our beloved Cougars aren’t loved by all. So I’m throwing a flag 
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Steven
yeah, they give plenty of airtime to the restomod 'vettes with yet another LS3 underhood.
The Kaiser was pretty neat with the pocket doors.
Some really neat stuff is coming across the block this year. Lots of run of the mill stuff too, but all in all an interesting array.
I found a red convertible last year that looked like it was pretty decent. It’s hard to make comparisons without seeing both of them up close but the owner was asking $10,000.00 for the one that I was looking at. He said that he had to fix some things on it and told me to call back in about a month. When I called back he said about the same thing for me to call back again. This calling back went on for quite awhile so after about 8 months of calling and sending emails that weren’t replied to I just gave up because I knew that he didn’t want to sell the car. I had offered him his asking price and told him I would wire the money and even offered to buy it before it was 100% completed but that didn’t work either. I wish that he had just came out and told me that he didn’t want to sell the car. I was under the impression that he was a stand up guy.
Oh well, maybe I’ll find another one.