TMCP #383: Auction Insights! Bret Voelkel from Ride Tech at Barrett Jackson, and NPD’s Ask Rick Segment on the Growth of Mecum
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Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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This episode marks a fun trip to the January auctions! Our intrepid show producer Bernie McPartland was our man on the scene at Barrett Jackson in Scottsdale Arizona and while there caught up with Bret Voelkel of RideTech. To follow up with that, we had Rick Schmidt on to get his opinion on the auction world as a whole, both from a marketing perspective for NPD and as a buyer and seller of cars. I also really wanted his opinion on the higher-than-normal sales prices of "Resto-mod" Corvettes at the Barrett Jackson auction (which he does watch annually) vs their fully restored counterparts.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 33. |
| 0:03.7 | This week, an entire show about the auction experience from a perspective you may never have heard before. |
| 0:11.0 | Rick Schmidt from NPD will walk us through the business and players in the collector car auction world and discuss their new relationship with Meekam. |
| 0:19.4 | But first, we'll go back to Barrett Jackson with our man, Bernie McPartland, on the scene with an interview with Brett vocal from Ride Tech. |
| 0:28.2 | Ride Tech kicks off their season at Barrett Jackson, and they showcase new products, talk to the crowd, |
| 0:33.8 | and in Brett's opinion, learn where the market is going. |
| 0:36.9 | Well, I think just in general, and this has been going on, you know, |
| 0:40.4 | ever since I've been in the industry, every year the popularity range, |
| 0:46.3 | the year range of cars that become popular goes up as well. |
| 0:49.8 | The most popular cars seem to be about 35 years old. |
| 0:56.3 | This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. |
| 1:00.7 | Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:03.3 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:09.2 | Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:15.6 | Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:19.4 | Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:23.4 | Well, you know what? |
| 1:24.0 | If you live in the Midwest right now, January 2019, you know one thing. |
| 1:29.4 | It's cold, like terribly frigid, school-canceling, businesses closing. If you hit your hand with a hammer, it would shatter cold. |
| 1:40.4 | And fittingly enough, in a few days, it will be Groundhogs Day. And I think Bill Murray said it best in the movie Groundhogs Day about how we all feel right now. |
| 1:49.2 | This is pitiful. |
| 1:51.0 | A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. |
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