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Bob Varsha and Rick Debruhl sum up the first day of the Barrett-Jackson Auction 2010 from Scottsdale.
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Here -- world in Scottsdale Arizona we kicked off farce beat coverage of the 30 -- Barrett Jackson collector car auction with five hours of live coverage. We often look forward to day one as being entry today with a more modestly priced cars. But it's also our first opportunity to get a feel for what might be hot in 30 and Barrett Jackson and we had a lot of things to think about. As day one unfolded early on Q this rain. Excluding cars like the BMW I set and Nash metropolitan. Then nicely restored pickup trucks which have been a favorite of Barrett Jackson recently also looked strong but in the end our top sellers were dominated by that'll Barrett Jackson stand by. Performance cars. We had a tie. For the fifth place -- at 50000 dollars. Four and 1989. Chevrolet Corvette and the same price was hammered down on in 1973. Pontiac Firebird in right rent. 57000. Dollars -- 1971. Dodge Charger RT. Beautiful muscle car and very original. In third place in 1969 Chevy Camaro Z 28 -- eye popping green. Hammered down -- 58500. Dollars. The second -- 2006. Chevy Corvette CO six Daytona 500 pace car. 66000. Dollars took it. And topping the ball on day one. Beautifully customized 1932. For three window at 75000. Dollars in all. More than two and a half million dollars worth of business done by the Barrett Jackson auction company on day one of six at this year's auction. Now let's get more on what is to come. My colleague strict of rules.
Indeed as we go through this week the -- only going to get better and better you -- see some of the best muscle cars literally on the planet go through this auctions. Also great rods and custom what does it very interesting collection of race cars particularly NASCAR check this out. A race car NASCAR car driven by Dale Earnhardt between 19931995. This car was built by Rusty Wallace to run it good wood over into a former race so that they can converted for good what. And then I guess if you look at this is the prize of all this is the car with Davey Allison drove between 1991 and 1992. Most importantly this is the car that he won the Daytona 500 with. Back in 1992 these cars are going to be sold this weekend. And it's just a small example of equality as far as you're gonna see here when you're gonna be tuning into speed TV's coverage as this auction continues to build up.
All right thanks -- here are air times for the balance of the auction Wednesday at 7 PM eastern time five hours of live HD coverage takes its up to midnight. Same hours on Thursday. Then Friday will have ten hours of coverage beginning at 2 PM eastern. Same times on Saturday Kumble wrapped things up with four hours of coverage on Sunday. Also beginning at 2 PM eastern so join us for every day of the 30. Barrett Jackson collector car auction from western world in Scottsdale Arizona so -- everyone.