Upcoming Automobilia and Petroliana auction on July 23 – 24, 2016, but you can place bids online right now after looking though the collection

 these round gas cans are the coolest (Hey Santa!) but the price starts at $100

http://morphyauctions.hibid.com/catalog/79294/july-23rd-and-24th-2016-premier-gas-and-oil-sale/

One of 98 engines made for the Tucker Torpedo sold at auction this past weekend, thought to be the only Tucker engine in Europe not in a car. $35,000

The Tucker Type O-335 horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine was derived from a Franklin designed engine further modified to power air-cooled Bell 47 helicopters for use in World War II.

Preston Tucker acquired the engine manufacturer, Air-Cooled Motors of Chicago, and had them modify the engine for automotive use, including the industry's first fully sealed water-cooling system.

While only 51 original cars were completed, Tucker intended to build more cars and had a total of 98 engines produced. They cost more than he had been marketing the car for... 1500 for the engine, vs his early claims of a car for 1000 dollars.

The remaining new engines were sold at the factory bankruptcy auction and are generally displayed by collectors. The engine sold in Monaco is build number 335-78.

http://www.rmsothebys.com/mc16/monaco/lots/tucker-48-engine-no-33578/1079118
http://www.motortrend.com/news/brand-new-tucker-flat-six-engine-sells-nearly-35000-auction/

1974 VW Bug with only 56 miles is going to auction, still having the original oil and tires... wow. Time capsule. It was parked in 1978, and only used to drive to church

Armando Sgroi was an old man from Genoa, Italy, who bought a VW Beetle in 1974 to drive to services when the hills near his home got too tough for him to walk.

According to Silverstone Auctions, it was a very short trip that Sgroi finally gave up for good in 1978, when it was parked in a barn with less than 56 miles on the odometer.

It sat there in its original condition, still with the oil and tires supplied by the factory, until it was recently discovered. It’s since been cleaned up, but unmodified, and will soon be auctioned. The metallic blue coupe featuring a 1300 cc engine and the flat under the trunk floor spare tire of the Super Beetle, as it was known in the United States.

This one isn’t stateside. It’s in Denmark, where it will cross the auction block at the Classic Race Aarhus event on May 28th

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/05/16/barely-driven-174-vw-beetle-barn-find-up-for-auction/

Jim Click is selling off his stable of race cars... all of the cool stuff will be up for grabs in August

two legit Shelby Cobras, one is CSX 2473, the winningest Cobra of all time.
 That car’s got more than 30 SCCA-sanctioned National, Regional and Hillclimb victories under its belt.

3 Mustangs, a 1966 GT350 that counts an SCCA B-Production regional championship to its credit. Also, a pair of Boss 302 Trans Am racecars, a ‘69 and a ‘70, the latter driven by A.J. Foyt.

And the 1966 Ford GT40, chassis P/1061, one of just 31 Mk 1 cars built by Ford, and one of seven the company kept for promotional use

http://www.thedrive.com/vintage/3371/this-guy-has-every-vintage-ford-racecar-you-want
http://rmsothebys.com/mo16/monterey/lots/?sort=make&collection=Jim%20Click%20Collection

40 years in storage (since 1976), and presumed destroyed because it was missing so long and never in the registry, a low mileage original owner GT 350 Shelby Mustang is going to auction, Shelby serial number 6S163

This car began life as a dealer demonstrator and occasional dealer-backed competition car in Framingham, Massachusetts, before being sold to a local customer who drove it for a decade, putting on 55,000 miles. He never told anyone about it, and drove it into storage in 1976.

The car is in marvelous time-capsule condition and includes its five original Cragar Shelby mag wheels as well as every service receipt and document from new, including the bill of sale, original handbook and Shelby literature. Even more fascinating is that this car is not found on the Shelby America register since the owner never told anyone about it,

if you want to learn all the detail trivia about the 65-66 Stangs, read this article from Hemmings, but it doesn't say much about this particular car http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2016/05/04/unrestored-one-owner-carry-over-1966-shelby-g-t-350-heads-to-auction-in-connecticut

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23513/preview_lot/4968082/
http://www.thedrive.com/vintage/3329/this-beater-66-shelby-gt350-is-a-dusty-diamond-for-100000

2 dozen bugs in a barn, going to auction

the barn was owned by the people who had a VW dealership.

The auction is June 10th and 11th, Cedar Rapids Iowa

http://autoweek.com/article/auctions/barn-full-air-cooled-volkswagens-heads-auction
http://hogeauctioneering.com/auction-listing-4/

Someone finally gave up trying to collect every busted and broken old Corvette, and now they are going to auction

Some are bad, some are fine. It's a big ol bunch of Vettes and parts (Boxes of radios, valve covers, steering wheels, rims, etc) getting tossed on the auction block, see them at
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=109250&campaign=americanauctioneersapr16_release_pitchcatalog&utm_campaign=americanauctioneersapr16_release_pitchcatalog

there are boxes of NOS parts too, tires, batteries, oil filters, etc

Wayne Bullock bought his first Oldsmobile franchise when he was just 19. That was a long time ago, in 2014 his grandsons sold off a collection of cool old cars they've collected to restore after they sold the dealership

As a 19-year-old, Wayne acquired an Oldsmobile franchise in Omaha, and would add the Chevrolet franchise in 1936 and Pontiac and Buick in 1962. The company would eventually sell farm machinery, tractors and combines. To survive the 1930s, Wayne Bullock ran combine crews from Texas to Canada.

Wayne, who would help at the farm, funeral home and gas station, later helping his brother Noel build Bullock Airport in Boulder City, Nev., in 1933.

 Wayne would get his pilot’s license in 1933 and was involved with Bullock Airlines, which delivered mail and passengers from Nevada to California and Mexico. The company was the first to fly tours over the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam spending time in Nebraska and California flying a cherished Bonanza airplane, as Noel began to fulfill his role in the business.

Noel Bullock, Wayne’s son, took after his father and has had a hand in the operation of the farming business and car dealership from a young age. After graduating high school in 1957 and college in 1961, Noel returned to the dealership.

Sales was a natural for Noel, as he received many sales records, including the John DeLorean award, for selling the most 1965 Pontiac GTOs.





http://maintrends.biz/another-old-gm-dealership-unearthed-in-nebraska-200-classic-cars-for-auction/
http://barnfinds.com/the-bullock-gm-dealership-auction/
http://www.granttribune.com/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D10115:national-spotlight-cast-on-extraordinary-auction-family%26catid%3D57:featured-articles