We had some passes for the Barrett Jackson car auction so we made the most of our Saturday evening and decided to check it out. Sarah had been out there on friday night as well, which is how we got our passes, but Saturday night was the not-to-be-missed night.

You certainly get caught up on the rush of the high-speed bidding that goes on with some of these cars. We missed the Shelby Cobra that sold for $5.5 million (the crowd went wild right as we were walking toward the auction area) but were able to see some high-profile and great looking cars.

We saw some of the cars auctioned by the OCC crew with Paul, Mikey and Sr. all on attendance. They sold their cars with matching choppers which was pretty unique. Alice Cooper also had a few cars on sale and we came pretty close to him while checking out this "Billion Dollar Babies" as it was getting ready to on the block. Reggie Jackson was also auctioning one of his cars and threw in a signed baseball bat to sweeten the deal.

Tony Stewart and Chip Foose were frequent visitors on the auction block during the evening, I was told that Tony Stweart had bought a couple of cars earlier in the day, including a home-depot-orange truck. We also saw the Shelby GT500 used on the commercial from Ford which introduces the new model.

Speaking of getting caught in the rush of the auction, I wanted to make a bid on one of the cars, as long as it was one of the first bids, but I could not convince Sarah and the fact we did not have a bidder card would not have helped my cause. Anyways, it was a lot of fun to be out there and thanks to the guy next to me telling us all that extra-info as the cars came on the block, such as the truck bought by Tony Stewart.