NCRS Winter Regional and Mecum Auction

Jan 30, 2006

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Living in Tampa has its benefits and one of them is being only an hour away from one of the best NCRS shows in the Country – the Winter Regional Meet in Kissimmee, Florida. This year’s show seemed to be larger than the last few I’ve been to. As the Mecum Auction was moved to a larger facility, the NCRS show had more room for its main attraction – judging Corvettes for Top Flight and Second Flight status. The swap meet area was also humming as people were searching for that last item to complete their restoration, buying new shirts and hats or walking though the Corvettes For Sale Corral. I had my video camera along for the trip so here are a few of the Corvettes we found interesting:

1958 Fuelie Project Car

Compilation Video

Mecum Winter Classic
I’ve always loved car auctions. The buzz from potential buyers, the smell of the exhaust, the sound of the gavel as the sale concludes is all very thrilling. The new location for the Mecum Winter Classic is awesome. While it’s too bad that it couldn’t be held at the same location as the NCRS Winter Regional, their new home at the Osceola Heritage Park gives them a lot more room and therefore more cars could be part of this. The only downside was getting from the NCRS show to Heritage Park. While roughly being only 10 miles away, it took us about 25 minutes to get there due to the road construction and heavy traffic on Hwy 192. I only had a couple of hours at the auction, but they were well spent. Here are three midyears that rolled though the block, and the good news is the Barrett-Jackson pricing was left in Scottsdale.