Page 9 - Experience Magazine Spring 2023

IT’S LIKE A KID GOING FISHING WITH HIS FATHER

restored a vintage refrigerator with stories. That’s what Barrett-Jackson
a custom Corvette theme and sold is. You don’t have to be a player and
it over the auction block during the buy a car – you can come and go
Scottsdale automobilia auction. fishing, if you will. You can walk
If you’d seen this thing before he the aisles and listen to your dad and
started, it looked like something your grandfather tell you stories
for the boneyard. He completely about those cars, talk about which
went through it and did just a ones you like and fantasize about
phenomenal job. Blake and his the one you want to strive for when
younger brother Connor - who you get older … as well as the ones
has also sold an item he restored that got away. It’s all those dynamic
at auction - literally grew up at components and virtues that are
Barrett-Jackson. When they were created because of that.
little kids, they conducted a magic Hey, I’ve seen it firsthand with my
act in the exhibitor space. They’ve grandsons. Watching their restored
driven little go-karts across the items sell really represented a full
auction block (lower right). circle for me – and them, as they
So, it’s not only a personal story got a sense of the fun involved
for me; it’s living out what we are being in the hobby. The next
preaching and hopefully creating generation may like different cars
an environment that appeals to than we did, but they’ll have the
the next generation, and gets folks same desire and bring their own
to come in with their children and spirit to the hobby. I’m looking
have those kids relate to it at a level forward to watching that unfold.
that impacts them.
— STEVE DAVIS
All the festivities geared for
children – like Family Day, the
Pinewood Derby, STEM Fest,
BMX bike exhibitions – are out
there to initially get the younger
generation involved. That
creates another generation of car
enthusiasts percolating along, and
we wouldn’t have that if we didn’t
have opportunities to interact with
them. I think Barrett-Jackson has
done an amazing job of creating an
environment for that to happen.
It’s like a kid going fishing with
his father. Whether you caught a
fish or not, the most important
thing about it is you went fishing
with your father, sitting in the boat
just enjoying the time and telling

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