{"id":33354,"date":"2020-01-21T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=33354"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:23:48","slug":"dodge-in-the-desert-2020-barrett-jackson-scottsdale-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/events\/2020\/01\/dodge-in-the-desert-2020-barrett-jackson-scottsdale-recap.html","title":{"rendered":"Dodge in the Desert: 2020 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

January in Scottsdale is car enthusiast\noverload: What started as the original Barrett-Jackson auction all those years\nago has turned into what\u2019s now referred to as \u201cAuction Week.\u201d Literally thousands upon thousands of\ncollector and special interest cars are for sale in the area … sometimes just\non the side of the road, as local owners know that the audience for their rides\nwill be in town.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the city embraces it, perhaps like nothing\nelse outside of Pebble Beach or Amelia Island\u2019s concours.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On site at Westworld, the Dodge Thrill Rides\nwere at the top of our game. Sliding our\nDodge Charger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcats and Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcats around always\ndraws a crowd and this was no exception … however, we continue to raise the\nlevel of the show, and this year, we\u2019re doing competitions with our Dodge\ndrivers. Several times a day, we had\nthem go up against each other to see who could get closest to the center of our\ndrift course, all while YOU rode along during the show! Our driver lineup boasts experience in\nNASCAR, Indycar, Sportscars and Open Wheel … and over the week, each driver\ntook a victory; literally any of our Dodge drivers can take the win at any\nmoment. We\u2019ll continue to do this all\nseason, so make sure you visit us all across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s focus on some of the cars that got\nus talking this week\u2026  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legendary Dodge Viper has always had a\nstrong following, but now that it\u2019s out of production, prices are rising\nquickly. But what sets one apart from\nanother? Fame certainly helps: Let\u2019s\ncompare two very similar cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993 Dodge Viper RT\/10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original owner paid a $20k dealer premium over sticker price (as listed on the original and perfectly preserved window sticker), but then hardly drove it. With just over 5,600 miles on it, this car sold for $42,900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1992 Dodge Viper RT\/10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On paper, this car is very similar to the one\nwe just mentioned: It\u2019s a Gen 1 RT\/10, it\u2019s Red, it has low miles … but this\none used to belong to famous football quarterback John Elway. So if all things are equal, but you throw in\na celebrity owner, what does that mean?\nMoney. A whole lot more\nmoney. This one sold for $88,000, more\nthan double what the non-celebrity car sold for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of celebrities, we\u2019ve become good friends with Chris Jacobs over the years: He\u2019s on TV\u2019s Overhaulin<\/i> with Chip Foose and is one of the commentators on Barrett-Jackson\u2019s television coverage. He\u2019s also the owner of a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye and stopped by our Dodge Thrill Rides to have a chat with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His personal 1968 Plymouth GTX restomod<\/a> was auctioned off with 100% of the money going to the Driving Hope For Others charity. He admitted that with a Chip Foose paint job and a modern 392 HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> engine under the hood, he had about $50k in the car … it sold for $300,000! Chris describes it this way: The new owner made a contribution to a fantastic organization … and the GTX is just a keepsake. That\u2019s a pretty slick memento!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, we were all shocked by what has to be the bargain of the entire Barrett-Jackson auction. There were two original, brand-new Dodge Challenger Drag Paks for sale; the cars have engines, but are designed to be finished by the owner with their choice of transmission, rear ends and such. The first car has a 6.1L HEMI engine<\/a> under the hood and only sold for $9,900, while its sister car features a 360 V8<\/a> and went for just $10,450.  We spent the rest of the auction saying how we would nearly have paid that for the engines, let alone the entire cars. It just goes to prove the auction adage: A car is worth what someone is willing to pay on that given day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Up next, the Dodge Enthusiast Tour is headed\nto Miami to be part of the Super Bowl! We\u2019ll be teaming up with the cast of the Fast and Furious movies who\nwill be taking over our Dodge Challenger SRT Demon drag racing simulators in a\nhead-to-head competition. Watch for coverage\nof that here on DodgeGarage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January in Scottsdale is car enthusiast overload: What started as the original Barrett-Jackson auction all those years ago has turned into what\u2019s now referred to as \u201cAuction Week.\u201d Literally thousands upon thousands of collector and special interest cars are for sale in the area … sometimes just on the side of the road, as local owners know that the audience for their rides will be in town.  And the city embraces it, perhaps like nothing else outside of Pebble Beach or Amelia Island\u2019s concours.  On site at Westworld, the Dodge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":33371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[497],"tags":[1939,893],"class_list":["post-33354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-auctions","tag-barrett-jackson"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":false,"icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33375,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354\/revisions\/33375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}