DALLAS — Classic car auctions these days are a lot more than just buyers and sellers making deals.
The live events have become eye-popping spectacles and the biggest auction house in the country has come to Dallas for a weekend of fast-talking wheeling and dealing involving some vehicles worth millions of dollars. The event runs Sept.4 – 7.
With air-brushed snow leopards under the hood and green accent lights everywhere, Richard Foley has invested a whole lot of money in turning his 2016 Corvette into a work of art.
“I spent six years doing different customizing on the car,” said Foley. “Everything from 61 pieces of carbon fiber.”
When we spoke to him, his custom Corvette was only seconds away from going on the block at the annual Mecum Auction in Dallas.
“I feel great,” Foley said. “I’m gonna let the car do what it can do.”
More than 1,500 vehicles, the most ever, will roll across the stage inside the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.