Like you guys, I'm very dissapointed as was the owner. Russo & Steel is a second rate auction company for sure. There are some very expensive lessons to be learned here. He waited until all the good spots were filled before deciding to list the car so he lost his chance at a decent selling time. I stayed up to watch the car go across the block , I think an honest value for the car today is about 125K, maybe a little less but no good auctioneer would try to start a car like that at 200k and then have to work down and that's what they did.
I am convenced that it's the only '61SS in the world with paperwork to back it up and I also beleive it's the only one with that cowl tag whick makes it a really special car. When Super Chevy did the article on the car last year I allowed them photograph the paperwork and the cowl tag thinking that someone, somewhere would contact me or the magazine saying "that ain't the only one, I've got one too", I've heard from a lot of people concerning the car, ever have people contact me wanting to know where the car would be displayed at so they could come see it but I never heard one person say they had one with paperwork or that cowl tag.
When I heard the car was going across at 10 PM, I thought 10 PM EST time which would have been a decent time in Az. By going across so late there was zero change of any phone bidders back east and it looked like most of the crowd had left. Probably left and went back over to B-J
Oh, well....wonder what Larry's '61 brought.