Mecum Kissimmee closed again with over $200 million in sales

  • The 1967 Jaguar E-Type driven by Mike Myers in the three Austin Powers movies went for $880,000, and open-wheel Indy Car PHOTO/TERRY LLOYD
    The 1967 Jaguar E-Type driven by Mike Myers in the three Austin Powers movies went for $880,000, and open-wheel Indy Car PHOTO/TERRY LLOYD
  • The 1967 Jaguar E-Type driven by Mike Myers in the three Austin Powers movies went for $880,000, and open-wheel Indy Cars sold for more than anticipated to the delight of bidders. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE
    The 1967 Jaguar E-Type driven by Mike Myers in the three Austin Powers movies went for $880,000, and open-wheel Indy Cars sold for more than anticipated to the delight of bidders. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE
  • Some open-wheel 1990s Indy Cars sold for more than anticipated to the delight of bidders. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE
    Some open-wheel 1990s Indy Cars sold for more than anticipated to the delight of bidders. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE

    Despite a record 4.400 vehicles up for auction this year, Mecum reported $224 million in total sales at this year’s Mecum Kissimmee auto auction, down slightly from 2024’s record. However, for the first time, online bids are still being accepted, so the final figure will probably rise.

    The top seller was a green 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I Road Car which went for over $7 million. In all, nine autos were sold at $1 million or more. A high bid of $25 million for the featured 1969 Porsche 917K, owned and driven by screen legend Steve McQueen in the racing movie “Le Mans,” was rejected. Approximately two dozen other cars at this year’s event received unsuccessful bids of over a million dollars.

    The 1967 Jaguar E-Type “Shaguar” driven by Mike Myers in the three Austin Powers movies, with its distinctive British Union Jack flag paint scheme, went for $880,000. A 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Presidential Limousine, used during the Clinton Administration, sold for $264,000. Open-wheel Indy 500 cars and some rare Corvettes were reported being sold at much higher than anticipated prices.

    One of the highlights of the annual Kissimmee event is the charitable fundraising that takes place. Curing Kids Cancer, Mecum’s official charity received over $323,600 at this year’s auto auction to support pediatric cancer research and treatments. In the auto art auction space, a pedal car was repeatedly bought and sold incredible seven times to raise over $160,000. Mecum Kissimmee 2025 also saw the return of the 2012 SCSE Trike, custom-built for CKC, and bearing painted handprints of several children fighting cancer at the time. It was one of the first items ever auctioned at Mecum for CKC and sold for $7,000 at this year’s event.

    Since CKC’s partnership with Mecum began in 2012, activity at the auctions has raised more than $15 million, which represents half of the $30 million raised by CKC since 2004. Numerous other private charity sales also occur each year at the auto auction.

    For more information about Curing Kids Cancer see https://bit.ly/3WM4z47, and for more results from the Mecum Kissimmee 2025 events see https://bit.ly/3TeDogJ.