TWO RIVERS, Wis. — Zell D. White had a passion for both cars and motorcycles. After he died, Wayne Yoder and his Yoder Auctions crew were called in to disperse 20 four-wheeled vehicles and approximately 117 bikes. The April 15 auction kicked off at 9 a.m. at the Lighthouse Inn, a lakeside motel in Two Rivers, Wis. The vehicles were less than a mile away in a storage building where they had been available for preview for two days before the sale.
The auction was on the second floor of the Lighthouse Inn, where pictures of each lot were projected on a screen and bids were taken in person, by phone and online. The vehicles were listed as collector cars and bikes, but they included some units that could be described as “pre-owned” or “used,” in addition to many that were older or officially “antiques” using Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) guidelines.
If you haven’t checked lately, the AACA guideline for antique car status is still 25 years or older, so that means that 1998 models are officially considered “antiques.” Zell D. White wasn’t too concerned about age and his collection included automobiles from a 1931 Oakland to a 2018 Ford. According to “the world’s only Oakland-only mechanic” Wayne Koffel, of Pennsylvania, the 1931 Series 301 V-8 Custom business coupe in the auction is the only one known to survive. The 2018 Ford was a bright blue front-wheel-drive Focus SE model described as “almost-like-new” by auctioneer Wayne Yoder.
Yoder moved the auction along handily, starting with motorcycles
