Sellers at auctions have the ability to set a reserve on their lots – a minimum price that they’ll sell their car for. Sometimes, the bidding...

2 days ago  Events John Hammer

The Mecum auction in Indianapolis is always a good time, with a huge amount of cars. One thing I’ve always appreciated there is that not everything...

11 days ago  Events John Hammer

No doubt you’ve watched some of the Mecum auction action on NBC Sports Network, and it is a lot of fun, but checking it out in person totally chang...

1 month ago  Events John Hammer

The trucks are already in the great state of Texas, the team is loading in and the show is about to open. This week is the Mecum auction’s annual s...

1 month ago  Events John Hammer

I have a T-shirt with the diagram of a 6-speed manual shifter. I was wearing it at the mall when a 20ish-year-old called out to me from one of thos...

1 month ago  Showcase John Hammer

It was an up and down week at the Mecum Auction in Glendale, Arizona, outside Phoenix. The weather and the emotions were a bit of a rollercoaster. ...

2 months ago  Events John Hammer

It was a warm spring evening in 2007. Two aging men, grasping tightly to their fading youth, met on a baseball field in Phoenix, Arizona. Randy Joh...

2 months ago  Events John Hammer

It was the second Saturday of January; Lansing, Michigan. I think it was 1998. A 32-degree, sunny day and we had just finished our car club’s month...

3 months ago  Showcase John Hammer

So I’m reading Facebook the other day and this guy with a Dodge Challenger Scat Pack was really upset because he lost a stoplight drag race to a V6...

3 months ago  How-To John Hammer

For many of our servicemen and women, coming home is a challenge mentally, physically and socially. Heck, that’s the origination of the entire Amer...

3 months ago  Showcase John Hammer