Barrett-Jackson collector car auction coming to Mohegan Sun Casino

A record crowd of 90,000 turned out when Barrett-Jackson brought its collector car auction to Mohegan Sun Casino for the first time. More than 500 vehicles sold for over $26 million, led by a 1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88. See what made this Northeast debut one for the record books — and why it’s still growing.

It is billed as anÂ “automotive lifestyle event,” fully loaded with activities for the whole family.

Barrett-Jackson is kicking off its 2nd annual Northeast Auction into overdrive at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., with a full week of collector car activities, June 21-24, all leading up to the big auction event.

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Ninety thousand people came through the doors that weekend, more than seventeen hundred of them raised paddles, and when the gavel fell for the last time, over five hundred cars had changed hands for more than twenty-six million dollars. Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut isn’t where car collectors traditionally gather, yet Barrett-Jackson organizers called the inaugural Northeast Auction the largest single event the casino had ever hosted. Beneath the chandeliers and slot machine noise, one particular car pushed the sale total into record territory and had bidders leaning forward in their seats. The event grew so quickly that what started as a long weekend soon needed extra days just to keep pace with demand. So what convinced a casino resort to bet on classic muscle, and which car actually stole the show?

A Casino Bets on Classic Iron

Branded as a full automotive lifestyle event rather than a simple auction, the week-long program packed Mohegan Sun with activities for the entire family alongside the docket of consignment vehicles. The mix on the block ran the gamut of American performance history, from Ford Mustangs and Chevrolet Camaros to Dodge Challengers and Plymouth Barracudas, giving Northeast buyers a shot at cars that typically only surfaced at Scottsdale or other West Coast sales. For a region without its own marquee collector auction, that alone was reason enough to fill the casino’s event floor to capacity.

The Corvette That Set the Pace

Topping the docket that weekend was a 1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88, which crossed the block for $624,800 and anchored the sale as the top seller of the event. In the years since, the Northeast auction has kept producing headline moments of its own, including the sale of the very last C7 Chevrolet Corvette ever built and a 1997 Toyota Supra Anniversary Edition that brought a record $176,000 — a clear sign that Japanese performance cars have fully arrived in a collector market long dominated by Detroit muscle.

From One Weekend to a Northeast Institution

The auction’s popularity didn’t plateau after that first record-setting weekend. A later Northeast sale became Barrett-Jackson’s first-ever double sellout in the company’s 45-year history, cementing Mohegan Sun as a fixture on the collector car calendar rather than a one-off experiment. What began as a single week of activities has grown into one of the most anticipated stops on the East Coast auction circuit.

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