When a person decides to sell a car at Barrett Jackson you need to fill out the entry form with a description of the car and pictures. Barrett then decides whether they will accept the car. Once they decide to accept the car then they tell you which day they slot you in and you decide whether you are OK with running it that day. Barrett told my Dad they wanted to run the car on Wednesday night January 15th between 7 and 8 PM and he decided to go for it.
After confirming with Barrett Jackson the next step was to get the car ready for auction. As you can see in the picture it is a very nicely restored car so all he had to do was get it professionally detailed. You also have to come up with a good description for the auction catalog and to put on a car at the auction itself.
The description should accurately describe the car but keep it brief. For example if the engine is not #’s matching you do not want to mention that. Let the buyer ask about that. Also a lot of times bidders won’t have even seen the car before it goes on the block and they bid on it anyways. You don’t want them to read “not numbers matching” when going over the block.
Our next post will be about transportation to the auction and prepping the car once there.
