After our story last week about Barrett-Jackson introducing a reserve at their Palm Beach auction, we had a lively and – thank you – largely constructive debate on the merits of the reserve and no-reserve formats. Not surprisingly, Barrett-Jackson has been having a long internal discussion on this, too, and we talked with Craig Jackson […]

Barrett-Jackson has gone a long way as the No Reserve auction company, but that wasn’t the case in Palm Beach last weekend, where for the first time in seven years they accepted a reserve on certain consignments (those they valued at over $50,000). They’re not completely happy with the results, however, as the sale came […]

From the what 5,500 bucks will get you at Barrett-Jackson department comes this gas-sipping Honda Zoe. While it has been well-published that the machines were Price is Right giveaways, the microcar is apparently a rebadged Mitsuoka Motor Company BUBU 501, predecessor to subsequent BUBU 502 and BUBU 503 micro machines. This particular Zoe appears to […]