The 2024 Barrett-Jackson car auction returns to the WestWorld of Scottsdale for the second time in 2024 and north of 800 cars will cross the block for bids ranging from the thousands to the millions of dollars.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!During this four-day event (Oct. 10-13), car enthusiasts will swarm around the many makes and models from the past all the way to today’s generation.
While the public is more than welcome to take in what a Barrett-Jackson event has to offer, athletes and celebrities will be in attendance to sell, buy or just be spectators in awe of the variety of different automobiles up for auction.
Even though there is no set list of famous figures known to be showing up, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar from the band “Van Halen” will be back once again in Scottsdale to sell his cream-colored 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari. The one-of-one custom-built LaFerrari runs on a 6.3-liter V12 engine with an electric motor and can go from zero to 60 mph in under three seconds, reaching 217-plus mph. It has 1,566 miles on it, making this a truly intriguing piece of art.
Hagar put this LaFerrari up for sale in January, but it ultimately didn’t sell because of a major malfunction.
“The highly-anticipated car from Sammy Hagar is back after doing all of the hype last year and having the hybrid battery die. We made the right decision, we got it running a couple of different times but it didn’t seem very reliable,” Chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson Craig Jackson said at a pre-auction media availability on Wednesday. “Working with Ferrari, putting a new battery in and a new low-voltage battery in it also, it has been through a ringer with the Ferrari techs. Sammy said he wanted it at 100% to sell it.”
Flipping over to the sports world, undisputed super middleweight boxing champion Canelo Álvarez is auctioning off his 2018 Bugatti Chiron. The monster of a machine with only 1,668 actual miles has a seven-gear twin-clutch gearbox (DSG) that allows it to accelerate from 0-60 mph in less than 2.5 seconds and a top speed of 261 mph. With many Bugatti’s worth millions of dollars, this car is guaranteed to be one of the most expensive cars sold at WestWorld this week.
At the massive January auction earlier this year, reality television personality Kris Jenner sold a 1956 Ford Thunderbird for $49,500 and movie star Nicholas Cage’s 1970 Plymouth HE-MI Cuda found a new owner for a whopping $605,000.
Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Fall 2024 officially begins Thursday with the gates opening at 8 a.m. PT. The automobilia auction starts at 9:30 a.m. before the collector car auction kicks off at 12 p.m.
The event runs through Sunday, QuikTrip Family Day. All kids 12 and under get in free and will be a day full of the latest makes and models bidders will splurge on.
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