Barrett-Jackson Auction Company is revving up for the 36th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale, Arizona being held January 15-21, 2007. The Barrett-Jackson team has moved into WestWorld and soon a quarter of a million car enthusiasts will join us. Barrett-Jackson is proud to announce we have already registered over 2,850 bidders and have received 2.8 million visitors to our website daily! On New Years Day alone, www.barrett-jackson.com received 14.2 million, in just one day!

 

Stay tune for 40 hours of live, nonstop action on SPEED (check your local listings). Barrett-Jackson is also busy filming Barrett-Jackson: Life on the Block, a behind the scenes reality television show on SPEED.

"We continued to center our charitable efforts around children and partnered once again with Childhelp and various other organizations that make a difference in the lives of those who deserve it the most," said Craig Jackson, president of Barrett-Jackson.

The primary charitable beneficiary, Childhelp, received $1 million generated by a celebrity-studded gala. The sale of a 2006 Chevrolet Regency RST Jon A. Moss Signature Series "Limited Production" generated $25,000 for charity, as did the $200,000 sale of a Coddington built 1942 Ford Custom Woody Station Wagon donated by Ron Pratte.

Ford Motor Company auctioned the right to purchase the first 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 coupe available to the public. As mentioned above the Shelby sold for bid dollars with the proceeds benefiting the Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation. The Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation (www.cscf.org) had a tremendously successful showing at this year's event, raising more than $1 million for the charity devoted to children's organ transplants and research. Gary Goudie of Knoxville, Illinois was the winner of Carroll Shelby's personal, aluminum-bodied Shelby Cobra CSX 1000 through a raffle which raised more than $400,000 for the foundation. More donations came to the foundation when a 1966 Shelby Cobra CSX3000 Roadster (Lot 1291) sold for $594,000 and the seller, Melvin Jones, graciously agreed to donate 20-percent of the final auction price above $350,000.