Las Vegas is a great city for automobile enthusiasts, from the Auto Collections, showcasing vintage cars at The Linq Hotel, to the Dream Racing experience at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where you can fulfill your need for speed in works of art like Lamborghinis and Ferraris.
So Las Vegas is the ideal home for The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auction, a weekend-long event run by Barrett-Jackson, hundreds of thousands of collectible automobiles have been sold over the last four decades. Previous sales include a 1967 Chevy Corvette L88, which sold for $3.85 million in 2014.
This year marks the ninth edition of the Las Vegas event, which is far more than just an auction. Even if you can’t afford to drop the kind of money needed to buy cars like the first two Pontiac Firebirds ever built, the extremely rare 1954 Kaiser Darrin roadster or a restored 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton, you can still admire all of the amazing, one-of-a-kind vehicles for sale, and attend the supplementary activities throughout the weekend.
The Mandalay Bay Convention Center will be filled with vendors and exhibitors catering to all aspects of the automotive world, so car enthusiasts at any level can find something that fits their interests. There are also driving demonstrations available from Chevrolet (Ride ’N Drives) and Dodge (Thrill Rides), for attendees looking for a more firsthand experience. For a car town like Vegas, it’s the perfect weekend.
Did you know ...
1. The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions are also held annually in Palm Beach, Fla., The Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, and Scottsdale, Ariz.
2. The auctions can be viewed on Discovery Channel and Velocity. All told, the auctions get a viewership of 6 million
Mandalay Bay, doors open 8 a.m. Oct. 13-15, starting at $10 plus tax and fee. 800.745.3000 Ticketmaster
