Saw this on Youtube, Auction in Douglass, KS Feb. 12th.

[Pep C Strebeck]

I just saw these on Youtube and thought I would post them here. The camera work is absolutely horrible but it does show a huge lot of rusty and rotting piles of Model T and Model A stuff (and later 30's Fords). I have included a link to 2 different videos and a link to the upcoming auction.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2eb5p0f_F8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjmSxabXHUU

https://www.sundgren.com/antique-cars-a ... in-markel/

[ThreePedalTapDancer]

There’s lots of good stuff in there, most likely will go very cheap.

[StanHowe]

There are half a dozen T's at least, lots of parts, some pretty collectible other things. If anybody is going you'd better take a friend and a set of those little walkie talkies because there may not be cell service out there. There is a lot to sell and they will probably be running two or three rings.

To set that up right with only a month to do it they are going to be busy. They also need somebody who knows what the T stuff and A stuff and what a 35 Ford is, etc., etc.

I wonder how long it would take to get there???? Google is my friend. =)

[Mark Nunn]

Douglas appears to be less than a 1 1/2 hour drive from Iola KS. I expect that Marc will be there from Model T Haven.

[Rich Eagle]

That is amazing to see.
I found the last link less tedious. You can scan through their images rather than trying to focus on the interesting parts of the video. I found the photos quite nice.
A few pre '15s and many 26-27s. Some brass and black lamps. The car parts mixed in with saddles and guns is amusing to me.
Thanks for pointing us to that.
Rich

[Steve Jelf]

... most likely will go very cheap.

Now that a lot of T guys know about it, maybe not.

This is in pretty flat country, only a few miles northeast of Douglass, so I expect there is cell coverage.

In one of the pictures it looks like the nose of a 1915 peeking out from under the mess. Can't tell whether it's a runabout or a touring.

It's a weather gamble having this in the middle of February.
It could be 60º, or it could be 6º.

Nearly all the T's have no title. I hear having just a bill of sale can be a problem in some states.

[Pep C Strebeck]

I found the last link less tedious. You can scan through their images rather than trying to focus on the interesting parts of the video. I found the photos quite nice.

Tedious, excellent word choice. It seemed to me that most of the time through the videos the individual filming was more interested in the trees. It would definitely be nice to attend, but it is more than a bit too far for me, and as Steve had said, for that time of year that is a gamble on the weather.

[ThreePedalTapDancer]

I like the late 40s Cushman 50 turtle back scooter, I had one once.

[StanHowe]

If you want a check on how thin your skin is, just go in the auction business. Generally speaking, you do the photos and any video pretty early on in the process so you can start getting advertising out. The heirs don't care how cold it is or how much snow, they want it done and done now. If you go in and start dragging things out to set up for a good photo you have to either put them back in the place you got them or leave them out where they are easier for somebody who knows where it is to back in and load up some night. Or day. Generally speaking anyplace you could put it already has other stuff in it that you are trying to sort and set up for the photos and videos and instagram video requests.

You are supposed to know everything about everything. For example, on this auction, guns, Model T's, saddles, furniture, 30's, 40's, 50's cars, trucks, tractors, motor scooters, tools, antique tools, signs and petrolania; do absolutely perfect advertising descriptions, record every serial number for anything anybody might call or email wanting more information about, put up a good web page with every detail covered about every possible thing and a nice glossy print flyer that you mail to anybody who might be interested in anything.

Do it all while being low bidder, working on a couple other auctions with totally different merchandise, do all of them on the day there is not a conflicting auction anywhere and did I mention -- do it all while being low bidder.
Figure out how to set it up, figure out the parking, figure out your security so the small valuable items do not walk off before or during the auction, figure out how people can get in to load before the auction is over and how you are going to provide loading help and security all the while you are still selling, hire other auctioneers to run a second ring or possibly a third ring while you are selling the main ring, make sure you have somebody for backup if you come down with a cold and can't talk the day of the auction, arrange for concessions that will not run out of food and not leave before the auction is over and, God Forbid, make sure you don't make any mistakes or identify something wrong in the ten or twelve hours you are selling 3 to 7 items a minute going non stop.

I've done this 434 times in the last 39 years in seven states and over 20 counties in the 4th biggest state in America. I have one more big auction in May with everything from Model T's to a 59 Edsel convertible to wagons and trucks and a huge petrolania collection, tractors and related parts and I'm retiring.

It's like Gene Autry told Monte Hale about getting in the movies. If it was easy everybody would be doing it.

A guy that started out working for me now owns the auction school in Montana, Western Auctioneering College in Billings. They have openings for the next term. Easy way to make a ton of money with no work and no criticism.

[Humblej]

That would have been a gold mine...45 years ago. The TT in the shed is about the only one that looks like it might have been somewhat protected as it still has paint on it. Sad.

[Steve Jelf]

The TT in the shed is about the only one that looks like it might have been somewhat protected as it still has paint on it.

I think I see one other T that's in a building that hasn't collapsed, but it's so covered by junk that it's hard to tell.

[Pep C Strebeck]

Just a note, the videos that are shown in the links WERE NOT SHOT BY THE AUCTIONEER! The videos were shot by some guy with a Youtube channel, and they appear to be about the average quality for what they have posted before/since. They were not trying to show the items for the auction, just content for their channel.