Mecum’s annual flagship basic and collector automotive public sale occasion in Indianapolis achieved greater than $100 million in total gross sales for the second 12 months in a row, and with a $113 million complete realized at this 12 months’s public sale, it stands because the second-highest complete ever reached within the occasion’s 36-year historical past.
Gross sales had been led by primary attraction choices such because the 1970 Plymouth Cuda 440 Fast Transit Present Automotive and the 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger R/T SE ‘The Black Ghost’, which offered for $2.2 million and $1.07 million, respectively.
The entire record of high 10 sellers in Indianapolis proved to be a mirrored image of the public sale’s total variety of choices, together with an array of each classic and fashionable automobiles and encompassing each luxurious and efficiency autos as nicely. The singular consistency among the many group was their shared standing as American-built machines. Two Ford GT Heritage Editions made the record—a 2020 mannequin that offered for $1.38 million and a 2006 mannequin that offered for $660,000. A pair of Corvettes made the highest 10 record as nicely, with a 1971 Chevrolet Corvette Export ZR2 Coupe bringing $715,000 and a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible reaching $660,000.
Personal car collections supplied in Indianapolis offered for an combination of greater than $35.76 million, with top-selling assemblages together with the Hustle for the Muscle No Reserve Assortment that noticed 61 automobiles promote for a complete of $8.66 million, and The Apex Assortment, which noticed 24 of its vehicles promote for a complete of $4.23 million. The Clyde Horst Assortment of 14 vehicles offered in its entirety for greater than $2.04 million, and The Chris Bishop Assortment of 24 vehicles additionally noticed a 100% sell-through charge bringing $2.49 million in complete.
The entire high 10 collector automotive gross sales on the Indy 2023 public sale embrace:
1970 Plymouth Cuda 440 Fast Transit Present Automotive at $2,200,000
2020 Ford GT Heritage Version at $1,375,000
1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger R/T SE ‘The Black Ghost’ at $1,072,500
1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at $770,000
1971 Chevrolet Corvette Export ZR2 Coupe at $715,000
2006 Ford GT Heritage Version at $660,000
1967 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible at $660,000
1931 Cadillac Sequence 452 V-16 Convertible Coupe at $660,000
1967 Shelby GT350 Fastback at $632,500
1970 Plymouth Hemi Superbird at $605,000
Subsequent up for Mecum is a 600-vehicle providing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 9-10.
