Mecum, the only major American collector car auction company that doesn’t participate in the Arizona Auction Week, wasn’t there again in January of this year. Arizona Auction Week doesn’t work for Mecum because of its long-running January sale in Kissimmee, Florida, where it offers as many as 3,000 vehicles over the course of 11 days. They did reveal, during the televised coverage of its Las Vegas auction, that it was staging an auction in Arizona on March 15-16 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale. There had been such an overwhelming response to the announcement that instead of a two-day, 600-car auction, the company needed to expand to a three-day, Thursday-through-Saturday event, with a docket featuring as many as 1,100+ vehicles.
