Barrett-Jackson sales, crowds set records
5 million, including fees, a record price for Barrett-Jackson. The top 100 cars sold for a combined $37.8 million, and all of the top 100 cars sold for no less than $180,000 each.
Attendance at the nine-day event topped 250,000, a nearly 10 percent increase over last year's 225,000. "The 'World's Greatest Collector Car Auction' continued to set world records in sales and attendance, and that only means great things for Arizona moving forward," Barrett-Jackson spokesman Jason Rose said. Approximately 1,100 cars were on the auction block.
Barrett-Jackson's inaugural rock memorabilia auction scored with a John Lennon piano that sold for $345,000, and a George Harrison 12-string guitar went for $51,750. Cold, wet weather cut into attendance at Barrett-Jackson but crowds still filled the tent at WestWorld, especially on Saturday night. A final attendance figure was not available Monday.
Rain on Sunday forced auctioneers to cancel an auction of Johnny Cash memorabilia because it was too wet to move the items into the Garage tent at WestWorld, Barrett-Jackson spokeswoman Jennifer Ziegler said.
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