[VIDEO] Michael Brown’s ‘Hooked on Vettes’ Collection Ready for Mecum Glendale

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[VIDEO] Michael Brown's Hooked on Vette's Collection Ready for Mecum Glendale


Michael Brown tells us that he has been Corvette crazy since he was a kid and that passion has led to the filmmaker assembling a collection of thirteen landmark models of the Chevrolet Corvette. Michael named his collection “Hooked on Vettes” and from this new video shared by Mecum, we can understand how that name came to be.

Michael’s “Hooked on Vettes Collection” will be offered for sale at Mecum’s Glendale Arizona sale on March 16-19th at State Farm Stadium.

The collection starts chronologically with a rare Black 1954 Corvette which was just one of four created, a 1957 Corvette fuelie in black with a red interior, and a 1962 Roadster painted Sateen Silver. The first car in the collection is Michael’s Silver/Black 1963 Corvette Split Window Coupe. Rounding out the mid-years in his collection is a Black/Red 1964 Fuelie, a Black 1966 Corvette Coupe with a 427/425 and just 16.5K Miles, and finally, a 1967 Convertible in Silver/Black with an L71 427/435 V8.

[VIDEO] Michael Brown's Hooked on Vette's Collection Ready for Mecum Glendale

If you have already noticed, Michael preferred his cars to be Black or Silver and that theme continued with the only C3 Corvette currently in the collection, a 1978 Corvette Indy 500 Pace Car with an L82 and 4-speed manual transmission.

The final section of Corvettes in the collection are all examples of modern Corvette muscle starting with the 2006 Corvette Z06 Coupe, the 2009 Corvette ZR1 Coupe, the 2012 Corvette ZR1 Centennial Edition serial number 100, a 2015 Corvette Z06 Coupe, and the most recent addition to the collection, the 2020 Corvette Stingray Z51 Coupe.

[VIDEO] Michael Brown's Hooked on Vette's Collection Ready for Mecum Glendale

The other component to Michael’s collection are the neon signs and “road art” or automotive memorabilia, a portion of which you can see in the garage, but his collection of neon is so much more than just gas signs. Michael says he first started adding some mass-produced neon signs as a way to enhance the car collection, but as he grew up in the era of neon signs, he began adding restored signs that were 50-60 years old. A fun fact about the collection is that Michael has many vintage photos showing his signs as they were originally presented on the streets.

[VIDEO] Michael Brown's Hooked on Vette's Collection Ready for Mecum Glendale

“I’ve enjoyed not only the ownership and sharing it but the acquisition and the chase. It’s all been a process that’s taken many many years,” said Michael. “Who do I hope acquires these things? I hope it’s Corvette people who have the same emotion for Corvette that I do..who appreciate the history of a fine car a uniquely American car and that only enhances the experience and the fun to me of ownership.”

Later this week on CorvetteBlogger, I will be joined in Arlington, Texas with Steve Garrett of the CORVETTE TODAY Podcast to check out Michael Brown’s collection in person. We’ll be streaming a live walkthrough of the collection on Thursday at 6:00 PM CT on our CorvetteBlogger Facebook page, so make plans to join us! In the meantime, you can see more about Michael’s “Hooked on Vettes” collection in this new video from Mecum:


The Hooked on Vettes collection will be offered at No Reserve during Mecum’s Glendale sale March 16-19th. Check out all the automotive lots as well as the collection of road art and neon signs.


Source:
Mecum / YouTube

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Always have to wonder the real reason a high-roller parts with his car collection. I never did buy the usual ” It was time for it to go to a new home”.

  2. I have wondered the same as well. If you truly love the Vettes so much. How are you able to sell them?

  3. He’s not getting any younger. He has control over what happens to the collection, now…not after he dies. How simplistic can you commenters be? Do own anything of value? Are you immortal? Why burden his heirs with a collection like this?

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