Mecum (Chicago) classic car auction now live on t'tube

[DSdriver]

[Roobarb]

Ooh! Didn't know they did that.

Not far from me either (not that I could even afford a beer there at the moment!)

[johngarty]

Why do American auctioneers speak like that? 99% gibberish with the odd incoherent figure mixed in. 

Imagine Sotheby's doing that lol.

[andy18s]

1 of the Discovery channels ran a full weekend on one of their channels a few years ago

Made for interesting background viewing whilst busy in the house

[Bren]

Any vectras going through?

[DSdriver]

Everything I watched was shiney-shiney, Continentals seem bargainous.

[3VOM]

Why do American auctioneers speak like that? 99% gibberish with the odd incoherent figure mixed in. 

Imagine Sotheby's doing that lol.

I think you can get used to it. One thing with them, unlike say English auctions, is that they just call the next price up. In England you'd say "who'll give me x" they just say "x?" so a lot of the time when you hear "$16,000" the bidding is actually at "$15,500" at that point.