Things got really funky back in the last days of Kruse. Searching for a sale, cars crossed the block multiple times in the same auction, but with different lot numbers. When they didn’t sell, if the car belonged to Kruse – and they owned many – it was often transported to the next sale, and […]

While out of professional courtesy we’ve had an informal moratorium on reporting on the decline and fall of Kruse Auctions over the last two years, internally, we’ve had a Death Watch running. That clock hit zero hour on Wednesday, when Dean Kruse told the DeKalb Star the Kruse International name was for sale. “We have […]