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Pratte Collection Selling at Barrett-Jackson

October 16, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

Ron Pratte’s extensive car collection, including cars and automobilia, is selling at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, AZ. We have previously offered an exclusive look at his collection on this website. Our friends at Barrett-Jackson have just announced that they are expanding their auction dates to accommodate all the vehicles.

Barrett-Jackson Auction, January 2015

The auction in Scottsdale, AZ will now start on Saturday January 10th, with portions of Pratte’s automobilia being sold from Saturday January 10th through Tuesday the 13th. Traditionally the auction house starts each morning with some automobilia but his extensive collection obviously requires more lots and time. Usually car sales don’t start until Tuesday.

Ron Pratte Collection

Pratte collected a massive amount of cars and they are auctioning off his cars on Tuesday January 13th and on the “prime time” Saturday January 17th. Saturday afternoon and evening is traditionally the ONE day for the most anticipated vehicles, (like the Batmobile) selling at the highest prices.

Pratte’s collection includes some historic vintage cars, many built by highly regarded fabricators like Boyd Coddington and numerous cars he bought whose proceeds went to charity. In fact he often bought a charity car and then re-donated it back so it could be auctioned off again. Several of his cars are selling, with the proceeds going to specific charities, that he always has supported.

Looks like Barrett-Jackson week just got longer. Will you be attending?

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Drew’s Garage Spotlighted with 68 Charger

July 25, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

Drew’s Garage in Tempe, AZ is featured in the August, 2014 issue of Performance and Hot Rod Business. Our friends at the publication did a nice feature on this local garage.

Here’s a link to the six page article.

We recently featured Drew’s Garage with this article on Larry Fitzgerald’s 1968 Dodge Charger. Here’s the link as well.

In the article. the owner Drew Tennant discussed the origins of his shop and how showcasing his cars at Barrett-Jackson and Goodguys Rod and Custom helped his business grow. It is interesting to read that most of his employees are auditioned and hired from out of state.

Nice compliments to a true class act.

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Boyd Coddington Cars from Ron Pratte Collection

July 24, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

Boyd Coddington built a great variety of award winning cars. This Southern California icon left us way too soon. But fortunately his cars remain to showcase his vision and talent.

Ron Pratte Collection

Ron Pratte collected plenty of cars over the years and will be selling them at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Arizona in January. While specifics haven’t been finalized, it is thought that all his cars will be sold. Here’s a link to our first article about Ron Pratte selling off his cars.

Pratte never has opened his car collection to the public but we got an exclusive peek a few years ago.

Boyd Coddington

Amongst his collection, Pratte owns the largest collection of Boyd Coddington built cars. Coddington earned fame after winning an AMBR award but many first heard of him on a reality TV show, American Hot Rod – that set the theme for car building TV series.

In Pratte’s collection are a stylistic version of the classic 57 Chevy – Chezoom, a homage to a 32 Delahaye called the Whatthehaye and the AlumaTub.

All three cars reflect Coddington’s iconic style, long sweeping lines and smooth bodysides.

Here’s a link to an article we contributed to eBay Motors on these Boyd Coddington cars.

Which is your favorite?

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Pratte Collection Selling Soon

July 17, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

As we previously posted here, Barrett-Jackson sources confirmed that they are selling Ron Pratte’s collection of classic cars and automobilia in January during their auction in Scottsdale, AZ.

Ron Pratte

Ron Pratte has amassed an impressive collection of classic cars over the past few years. He has been a fixture at the car auctions, but rarely opened his collection to the public for viewing. But we were able to get some exclusive photos of just some of his massive storage warehouse.

Barrett-Jackson officials haven’t yet confirmed the details of which cars will sell or how they plan to package these classics during the January, 2015 auction.

Here’s a link to the first of our 2 eBay articles on Ron Patte’s collection.

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Pratte Car Collection Selling Soon

July 11, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

Classic cars from the Ron Pratte Collection

Collector automobilia from Ron Pratte’s display

Classic cars from the Ron Pratte Collection

Ron Pratte has been a prolific classic car collector and is known for the size of his private collection and his generosity in buying “charity” cars, with the proceeds going to specific charities.

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Recently Barrett-Jackson confirmed the swirling rumors that Ron Pratte was selling his entire collection next January at their Scottsdale, AZ auction at Westworld.

Ron Pratte Collection

Ron Pratte stored his cars behind closed doors in Chandler, Arizona and only rarely allowed outsiders to see these cars. These pictures are rare glimpses of some expensive and profound historical cars.

Here is a link to an eBay Motors article we recently wrote highlighting three vehicles from Ron Pratte’s collection that presumably are selling. What do you think they’ll sell for? Subscribe to this blog for a future update on another part of his collection.

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McLaren MP4 12C Black Beauty

June 11, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

McLaren MP4 12C

Had a chance to see two McLaren’s side by side at a recent “Cars and Coffee” in Scottsdale, AZ. For my taste these cars are tons nicer than many exotics and technologically miles ahead of their competitors.

Here is a link to our article for eBay Motors.

MP4 12C

The nomenclature for the McLaren is an interesting story.

MP4 stand for McLaren Project 4, which is the chassis designation. The “12” is an index number that McLaren uses to designate the performance of all their cars. The C represents carbon for all the carbon fiber used throughout the chassis and body areas.

After 2012, McLaren dropped the MP4 designation for this car series and just referred to the car as a 12C

McLaren Performance

The car accelerates from 0-60 MPH in around three seconds and tops out officially at 207 MPH. It is powered by a V8 engine linked to twin turbos. Seeing the rear mounted engine through the transparent car cover is a treat.

McLaren Airfoil

The carbon fiber rear air foil is used in severe braking helping to slow down this powerhouse, plus it just looks darn neat.

McLaren Dihedral Door

Sometimes referred to as a vertical door or a lambo door, these are butterfly doors or dihedral doors. A neat piece of engineering and allows for easy access against curbs. Plus it looks neat when you leave a door open at a car show

McLaren Photos

The gallery shows some additional photos that didn’t make it in to the eBay article.

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Cruise on Central revisited

May 14, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

We had the chance to write an article for eBay Motors n the Cruise on Central. Here’s the link to the article.

We wrote about it earlier here and even submitted a quick video on YouTube as well. Some additional pictures have been shared on Google + as well.

Cruise on Central

The Cruise on Central has some legendary history especially among long time locals and natives. Find out how it started back in the 60’s, was policed out of existence and then revived first as an unsanctioned event and now a local promoter has taken it under her wing.

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Dan Sobieski’s 1962 Cadillac at Goodguys

March 23, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

At the Goodguys Fifth Spring Nationals Car Show held in Scottsdale, AZ Dan Sobieksi brought out his green 1962 Cadillac. This Cadillac was scrapping the asphalt.

The judges were right to award it their So Low pick.

Dan Sobieski

While you might not recognize the name, you’ll probably recall that he was a fabricator at Boyd Coddington’s shop when it was captured on TV’s American Hot Rod. Dan formed his own shop Poor Boys Hot Rods and in fact occupies part of Boyd’s old shop in La Habra, CA. We have spotted Dan swinging by with one of his rods at the Friday night cruise – Cruising Grand – in Escondido Ca

1962 Cadillac

The Cadillac was down low but also spotlighted a custom authenticate flake green paint job for the roofline. In fact it was painted just months before the Goodguys Rod and Custom show.

Everything about this rod screamed period authentic custom. Nice to see such a good eye for detail. Dan has a Facebook page for his 1962 Cadillac.

Purse

On Sunday in the awards area, Dan’s lady friend had a matching purse. Have to wonder which came first the car or the purse?

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Goodguys Spring Nationals in Scottsdale

March 10, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

Goodguys Rod and Customs kicked off their year of car shows at Scottsdale, Arizona on March 7-9, 2014. Goodguys was started in 1983 and keeps getting bigger and better every year.

Goodguys

Over 2,500 cars were registered for the event, with the highest amount showing up at Scottsdale’s Westworld show grounds on Saturday. Great Arizona weather helped contribute to the crowds that came in to see the cars and vendors.

This was the Fifth Annual Spring Nationals show and they end their season back in Scottsdale with their Southwest Nationals in November, which will be their 17th annual fall event.

The show issues out over 75 “picks” or awards at the show and rather than being judged, the show picks winners in several unique categories. It may be a fine point but by not judging cars, you don’t have to justify why one car was “judged” better; you just pick a winner! It is funny though to see the length some car winners(whiners) will go to win a simple $25 plaque.

Also at these shows the folks from Goodguys pick finalists in various categories for a final nationwide award. At this show they selected finalists for

Truck of the Year

Muscle Car of the Year

Muscle Machine of the Year

Custom Rod the Year

Westworld Scottsdale, Arizona

Westworld is a great venue for the Goodguys car show. It is close to a freeway and has a large shade structure for indoor vendors (the former site for Barrett-Jackson’s cat auction). Besides asphalt parking on top, there is a lower section, that is a combination of more asphalt and ever popular grass.

The Goodguys show includes a Car Corral area with more car parts vendors and cars in all stages of restoration and marquees for sale. Of course some cars on the show grounds are also sporting for sale signs too.

Camaro For Sale — Rough Camaro at Car Corral

Goodguys Entry Qualifications

Only cars made in 1972 or older are allowed for the first two days of the show but on Sunday the gates are wide open to any year and marquee.

Next site for the Goodguys will be next weekend at Fort Worth, Texas.

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Chad Kroeger’s 1969 Boss 429 Mustang

March 5, 2014 Route 66 Pub Co Leave a comment

1969 Boss 429 Mustang owned by Chad Kroeger

Nickelback’s guitarist Chad Kroeger sold his 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 in January, 2014 at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. This Candy Apple Red beauty with a black interior was given a concours restoration and was one of the earliest of the hand built Boss 429’s

Boss 429

Kroeger, a vocalist and guitarist for Nickelback, a Canadian rock band, has a ton of money in this Mustang and it sold for $291,500 (including the buyer’s commission).

Look closely and you’ll notice no car battery under the hood. That’s because these Mustangs had a vented battery mounted in the trunk. And while you’re looking at the radiator support you can see the white grease marker on the passenger side. That show’s you the attention to detail in this restoration

History of Kroeger’s Boss 429

Boss 429’s left the factory with a 427 drag pack but were shipped to Kar Kraft, an up fitter, who swapped in a 429 high output 2 bolt block. The Boss 429’s were only sold for two years 1969-1970 and were intended to fit under NASCAR rules so they could compete against the Hemi’s from Chrysler. Only 859 were made in 1969.

Chad Kroeger

While the crowd is a bit younger than at some classic car venues, it was still fun to see how many passers-by had no idea who Nickelback was or Chad Kroeger. Even the promise of a signed guitar to the new buyer didn’t help some. Some didn’t know he is married to Avril Lavigne, but at least recognized her name! Sort of reminds me of the Silver Auction where they sold an Impala owned by Greenday’s Billie Joe Armstrong’s Impala!

Barrett-Jackson Auction, January 2015

Ron Pratte Collection

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Boyd Coddington

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Ron Pratte Collection

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McLaren MP4 12C

MP4 12C

McLaren Performance

McLaren Airfoil

McLaren Dihedral Door

McLaren Photos

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Cruise on Central

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Dan Sobieski

1962 Cadillac

Purse

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Westworld Scottsdale, Arizona

Goodguys Entry Qualifications

1969 Boss 429 Mustang owned by Chad Kroeger

Boss 429

History of Kroeger’s Boss 429

Chad Kroeger

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