Mecum Auctions’ recent Kissimmee, Florida, sale lived up to its billing as “The World’s Largest Collector Car Auction” with a whopping 4,383 vehicles up for grabs and a record $275 million in sales.
The 25th annual event took place over 13 days at the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, January 2-14, and the 2024 vehicle count increased by 400 lots over last year.
Heavy rains earlier in the week left much of the grounds saturated but that hardly dampened the spectators’ spirits or bidders’ resolve. The top sale of the auction was a 1963 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider that sold for an astonishing $17.9 million.
In the second-place spot was a 1966 Ford GT40 Mk1 selling for $6.93 million. The list of top sellers included six exotic imports and five American muscle cars (which included the previously mentioned Ford GT40), a 1965 Shelby Cobra selling for $4.18 million, two L88 Corvettes (the first and last together in a lot) selling for $2.6 million, and a 1970 Lemon Twist Hemi ’Cuda convertible selling for $2.15 million.
This year Mecum included nearly 50 individual collections with a few notable standouts like a 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing that hammered at $2.04 million, a stunning 1948 Tucker 48 that changed hands at $1.87 million, and a classic 1937 Hacker-Huskins 54-foot Commuter Yacht selling for $1.75 million. Although a multitude of Corvettes crossed the block this year in Kissimmee, one worthy of mention was the one-off Kindig-It Designs 1953
