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FOR ME, IT’S INCREDIBLE TO THINK ABOUT SURPASSING CHILDHOOD
DREAMS OF SIMPLY MEETING LEGENDS AND ACTUALLY BEING
BLESSED ENOUGH TO STAND SHOULD-TO-SHOULDER WITH THEM
AND BECOME FRIENDS
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about the cars, it’s about the culture, it’s about the
people, it’s about the Barrett-Jackson experience. We
have created an incredible platform and continue
to innovate. Back in the day, who could have ever
dreamed that there would be any auction company
that sells thousands of cars with No Reserve, setting
countless records and sponsored by some of the
top corporate brands in the world? A place where
classics, sports cars, muscle cars and Resto-Mods – a
term that didn’t even exist 25 years ago – as well as
the latest generation of collector cars, continually
share the same stage? As a result of our innovations,
we now have people in businesses unrelated to our
industry wanting to be involved as sponsors. I would
argue that we are one of the ultimate influencers in
the car world.
I can’t think of anything, in a business sense, that
remotely comes close to the emotion we experience
at every auction, the ups and the downs. The live
energy. The life experiences that are so unique and From top left: With Muhammad and Lonnie Ali; Carroll Shelby and my wife Janie; during a charity car sale in
so incredibly amazing – it makes you so proud to be 2011 to benefit the United Way; another charity sale to benefit the Darrell Gwynn Foundation; on the 2021
Las Vegas 2021 stage during the surprise tribute and award ceremony with Las Vegas first responders.
a part of it all.
We’re riding a rockstar roller coaster wave, and when Scan This Code To See The
we strap in at every auction, we don’t know where
we’re going to end up or what the journey’s going to Tribute And Award Ceremony
be like getting there. Just hang on, hold your breath On The Auction Block At Las Vegas 2021
– and when you’re done? Wow. We did it again.
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