Ohio collector to auction 700 antique, classic cars in mid-July

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.autonews.com/article/20170304/RETAIL04/170309890/-1

March 4, 2017 @ 12:01 am
Jackie Charniga

When Ron Hackenberger was 15, he borrowed money from his grandfather to buy his first car: a 1948 Studebaker. Then he kept buying.

In July, that Studebaker won’t be on sale, but about 700 other vehicles collected by Hackenberger, now 81, will be.

“I would guess there’s probably going to be a lot of bidding activity,” says Craig Jackson, CEO of Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. VanDerBrink Auctions is handling the sale for Hackenberger, a private collector from Norwalk, Ohio, which is roughly midway between Toledo and Cleveland.

Private auctions of this size can generate great enthusiasm among classic-car collectors. In 2013, thousands of buyers convened Woodstock-like in a Nebraska field for a weekend auction of nearly 500 vehicles owned by Ray Lambrecht, a former Chevrolet dealer. The auction yielded about $2.8 million in sales.

FULL story: http://www.autonews.com/article/20170304/RETAIL04/170309890/-1

Photo gallery runs a little slow: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=CA&Date=20170303&Category=PHOTOS01&ArtNo=228009996&Ref=PH&Profile=1698


This is what Marta was driving when we met. Push button transmission and the famous "make out seat!"

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I remember a teacher in the high school I went to

had a '50s era Studebaker and would occasionally (but proudly) drive it to work.