Classic Car Auction in LA

[Mike in Seattle]

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080628/D91J067G0.html and apparently classic radios went on Friday.

 

[StraightEight]

They sent me the catalog for that three weeks ago but I was out of town and missed the auction. The catalog is fabulous. Art Astor was in the radio business and had a huge collection of '20s-'40s console radios and microphones. Zenith black dials in almost every form., cathedrals, deco portables. The non-car catalog (radios, microphones, furniture, gas pumps, clocks) runs 168 pages with 4-5 items on each page. It even lists a 1937 Silvertone that is almost identical to our '36. The car catalog is impressive too. He had a really nice collection of pre-war "ordinary" cars (Plymouths, Chevys, Olds) in clean and un-hot rodded condition, very unusual for a SoCal collector. And unlike most of these auction catalogs, the estimates on those cars weren't completely overblown. There's was a two-tone cream-gray '47 Buick Roadmaster Sedanet that had my heart palpitating, as well as a '41 Buick Super convertible. I'm really sad I missed the auction (though it probably saved me money). I have to check around to see if the results are listed anywhere online.