The 2015 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals wasn’t just a display, it was a preview of Mecum’s next auction block, and the lineup proved it: a 640-mile Superbird, a genuine Yenko Camaro, and a 1-of-8 1969 Trans Am convertible all headed to the highest bidder. This is what happens when the country’s biggest collector car auction house shows up with real intent.
One of the cars – as they say.. Is The Best Plymouth Superbird on the Planet – Blue Paint .. White Interior .. Black Vinyl Top .. 100% Original down to the Tires .. with .. wait for it .. 600 ORIGINAL MILES!!!
A Show Built to Sell, Not Just to Look At
Some car shows exist just to look at metal. This one existed to sell it. When Mecum Auctions rolled into the 2015 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, they didn’t bring filler, they brought the kind of lineup collectors spend entire careers chasing, the sort that makes even jaded auction regulars stop and pull out their phones mid-stride. A 640-mile Superbird. A genuine Yenko. One of only eight surviving examples of a car most people have never even seen in person outside a photo. Every single one of them was headed straight to the auction block. Here’s what actually crossed under those lights.
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The Lineup That Stopped Traffic
The display Mecum brought to the 2015 Nationals read like a wish list rather than an inventory sheet: a genuine Yenko Camaro, a Plymouth Superbird showing just 640 original miles, a Ford Torino King Cobra, several Hemicuda convertibles, and a one-of-eight 1969 Pontiac Trans Am convertible that most enthusiasts will only ever see in a photograph. A 640-mile Superbird in particular is close to a time capsule, a wing car that essentially never got driven the way Plymouth intended, which makes it a completely different animal from the well-worn survivors most collectors are used to bidding on.
The Auction House Behind the Curtain
None of that lineup showed up by accident. Mecum Auctions was founded in 1988 by Dana Mecum and has been headquartered in Walworth, Wisconsin since 2011, and by 2016 the company was running roughly 15,000 vehicles a year across its auction calendar with around $300 million in annual sales. That kind of scale and reputation is exactly why sellers with genuinely rare cars, the one-of-eight convertibles and the barely-driven wing cars, trust Mecum with the keys instead of a smaller regional auction house. Reach brings the right buyers, and the right buyers are what make a 1-of-8 car sell for what it’s actually worth.
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