For a second year, Mecum Auto Auctions is doing a Summer Special auction event in Kissimmee, just six months after their monster annual January record-breaking event in January 2024. Mecum held its first summer auction in Kissimmee in 2020 as a post-COVID recovery event.
This year, over 1,500 vehicles will be placed in auction at Osceola Heritage Park from July 10-13. Last year’s Summer Special top seller was a 2005 Ford GT that sold for over $450,000. Among this event’s 1,500 vehicles is a low-slung, mint green 1954 Kaiser Darrin Convertible, one of only 500 made. In addition, four early motorcycles from the Jerard Collection are up for sale.
Two of the cycles on offer are from the venerable department store retailer Sears, a 1910 Single and a 1962 Allstate moped. The traditional bicycle manufacturer Schwinn is represented by a 1948 Whizzer motorcycle and there is also a 1925 Harley Davidson, with a sidecar, painted olive drab and appearing ready for military duty. Both the 1910 Sears Single and the 1948 Schwinn Whizzer look more bicycle than motorcycle, and the 1962 Sears moped actually looks “muscular” by comparison.
At the end of Mecum’s January 2024 event, its 25th anniversary in Kissimmee, sales exceed an industry record $275 million, eclipsing 2023’s thenrecord $234 million in sales. The 2022 Mecum Kissimmee event total of $217 million took the title of the first collector car auction to surpass the $200 million mark in sales for a single event, giving Mecum Kissimmee three consecutive years of sales over $200 million, unprecedented in the auto auction industry.
For more information on the Summer Special, see https://bit.ly/3RDMiU4
