That's unfortunate your friend has passed away.

There's a lot of nice stuff in that auction. I would go and pick some stuff up, but I'm curious what the competition will be like. We shall see.

 

Wow... seem like there's a ton of good stuff there. Sucks about the circumstances.

 

Yeah sorry for your loss, not sure if i can make it out during the week sadly, but i'd certainly like to.

 

Wow, didn't know of Kevin's passing...Darn

 

P.S. Need some stuff myself, so if you're there try not to jam me. Thanks

 

I can't see Gray's bothering sellng off all the parts independantly like that. I'd think they might do motors and stuff, but for an auctioneer, I'd see them entertaining someone buying EVERYTHING, but they aren't going to auction off every headlight, tailight, hood, etc......that would take days.

 

I can't see Gray's bothering sellng off all the parts independantly like that. I'd think they might do motors and stuff, but for an auctioneer, I'd see them entertaining someone buying EVERYTHING, but they aren't going to auction off every headlight, tailight, hood, etc......that would take days.

Having been to a few dealership auctions, usually the smaller stuff gets put into lots. You want a headlight in the pile? Well, you also get to take home such things as courtesy car vinyl stickers, bathroom paper towels and a box full of blank keys. (Yeah, they can be that random at times.)

There's another thing they do that DeLorean can probably explain better where individual items (I've seen them do this with those suitcases of specialty tools the manufacturers send out to dealerships) get grouped up as you go along to speed things up. So, instead of selling off the suitcases individually, the auctioneer will say, "OK, how much with you give me for the ones you want?" Or something along those lines.

Also, these are car dealership/repair shop auctions. It's not like what you see on TV with last-minute agonizing phone bids coming in from some billionaire on a yacht off of Hawaii buying up rare art.

The one thing I would check into if I could go to that auction is to make sure it is absolute. That means the last offered price means the item is officially sold. Sometimes auctions will run where the last offered price has to be approved by the folks who own the stuff, usually at the end of everything. That sounds like a lot of hassle.

 

Sorry to hear about your friend. unfortunately I don't have the space for anything like that stuff. I might be interested in some parts. But like someone else mentioned they aren't going to auction them off individually.

 

Anybody going, I could use Black SE 5 door side trim, 5 door leather insert door panels, and charcoal viggen seats for the rear.

 

I'll be there, and I know a few other people in the local Saab community are going as well, from what I've heard they're will be quite a few people there.

-Chip

 

I'll be there.

 

Id love to have that welder.

 

oh crap, im practically right next door and missed it!

 

Sorry to hear about the person that passed away. How did the auction turn out? I hope it went very well. Wish I was back that way.

 

Edit - nevermind, it already happened. Drat.