Officially, Mecum Auctions‘ annual Kissimmee, Florida, sale is a wrap and the final numbers are interesting. During the five-day sale, a total of 1,500 automotive/truck/motorcycle/boat lots crossed the block, of which 73 percent sold for a total of $39.9 million; a week ago, it was estimated that the total sales figure could top $40 million […]
Correct, Mercury never built a droptop Fox-body Capri. One may consider the ASC/McLaren as the exception to that statement, but this 1980 Mercury Capri two-seater convertible is no ASC/McLaren. Some backyard engineering job, then? A product of some overzealous enthusiast with a Sawzall and a welder? Not quite, according to the seller: This one of […]
* I must be getting old if I don’t know who Neko Case is, but that’s her, and that’s the 1967 Mercury Cougar from the cover photo of her latest album, Middle Cyclone. Now, she’s put the Cougar up for auction, with the proceeds benefiting 826 National, a non-profit group that encourages creative writing by […]