11 Cars That Caught Our Eye at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2025 – Hagerty Media
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news and videos—in short, everything for people who love carsBarrett-Jackson’s signature sale of the year ended its nine-day auction frenzy with $194.3M in total sales, $6M down from Scottsdale 2024. Just over 2000 vehicles crossed the block in WestWorld and, since Barrett-Jackson is almost entirely a “no reserve” operation, all of them sold, and the average price was just over $97,000.Bargain hunters found some deals early in the week, but attendance Thursday-Saturday was high, and high-dollar restomods and modern exotics brought big prices that eclipsed many of the sale’s traditional American muscle cars. We were on the ground for the three major auctions in Scottsdale this year (Barrett-Jackson, RM Sotheby’s, Bonhams), and below are some of the cars that grabbed our attention.Sold for $110,000Chassis no. 124377L100016. Ermine White over red vinyl. Older restoration, #2 condition. Equipment: 327cid/375hp V-8, PowerGlide automatic, hub caps, BF Goodrich Silvertown tires, bucket seats, console, AM radio.Condition: Inspected by Jerry MacNeish. Serial number 00016, and body number 1 on the Los Angeles production line. Restored in 2006. Very good body, although the driver’s side fender has a couple of scratches. The bumpers and trim show well. Under the hood is excellent and the underbody is like new. The interior has been completely redone, but the steering wheel appears original and has some gouges in it. Not over-restored and a very good restoration of one of the earliest Camaros ever produced.Bottom line: When it comes to cars, the “first of” something tends to have cachet among collectors, and therefore be worth more money. “One of the first” of something is less straightforward. It might impress some, but not others, and that is exemplified by this car’s auction history. It sold here back in 2007 for $75,900, then was a $45,000 no-sale at Mecum Indy in 2009, then sold for $110,000 at Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas later that year. It was a $35,000 no-sale in one of Barrett-Jackson’s mid-COVID online sales in July 2020, and brought $110K in 2025. This is a nice Camaro but its equipment and options are nothing special. Much of this price is down to that early build date, and it’s not guaranteed to do so well the next time it crosses the block.Sold for $47,300Chassis no. 1G1YY12SX15123558. Millennium Yellow over black leather. Original, #2 condition.Equipment: 346cid/385hp V-8, six-speed, red calipers, Goodyear Eagle F1 tires, original window sticker.Condition: Represented with 29 miles and showing no age to speak of. Window sticker reads $49,470.Bottom line: The 2001 model year was the first for the C5 Corvette’s game-changing Z06 model, and it had a lower-output 385-hp version of the LS6 engine (2002 bumped it up to 405hp). Nevertheless, this is a delivery-mile car finished in the C5 Z06’s best color, one that both looks good and evokes the Corvette C5-Rs race cars that were winning Le Mans at the time. This result represents a healthy premium over most ’01 Z06 sales, but given the crazy prices that some low-mile “wrapper” cars bring these days, it also shows some surprising restraint from the Scottsdale bidders. Several other delivery-mile Corvettes from the same collection brought similarly strong-but-not-crazy prices.Sold for $11,000Chassis no. PS110013627. Metallic blue over blue cloth. Unrestored original, #2- condition.Equipment: 2.0-liter fuel-injected four, floor-shift automatic, Uniroyal narrow whitewall tires, T-roof, factory cassette, air conditioning.Condition: Showing 55,504 miles. Extensive recent servicing. Beautiful paint and trim. Clean wheels. Very good interior. Cracked weatherstripping. An exceptional example of an unexceptional car.Bottom line: Remember these? Not many people do. An export version of the Nissan Silvia, the Datsun 200SX was a handsome but humble car available as either a coupe or three-door liftback in North America. It was a throwaway car in the vast majority of instances, so this one’s level of preservation would have been impressive 30 years ago, let alone in 2025. Even so, most of the bidders at WestWorld found this car shrug-worthy, and 11 grand was all it took to buy what may very well be the world’s nicest 1980 Datsun that doesn’t have a “Z” in its name. It’s not all that much more than the $9555 this same car brought on Bring a Trailer back in 2019.Sold for $139,700Chassis no. BNR34002464. Cloud White over gray cloth. Modified, #3 condition.Equipment: 2.6-liter I-6, six-speed manual, V-Spec, added NISMO turbos, exhaust and suspension, BBS LM wheels.Condition: Good paint overall, although the trunk paint color does not match the shade of the rest of the car. The underbody is aged and crusty, showing some oxidation and grime. Inside, the car doesn’t show excessive use or wear. This is a driver-quality R34 with some light modifications.Bottom line: The R34-generation (1999-2002) Skyline GT-R, once forbidden fruit in the U.S., finally became eligible to import here at the beginning of last year. It’s rarer, quicker, and more visually aggressive than the R32 and R33 that came before it, and it’s hard to overstate the hype around this car’s (legal) arrival, especially among the PlayStation generation. Lots of examples, both good and mediocre, have made the trip across the ocean (or over the border from Canada) since, and perhaps some of that hype has died down. Recent prices, including this one, have been soft.The GT-R in Scottsdale is a pretty good car, and a quarter-million dollars for a V-Spec (which got an upgraded all-wheel drive system, better suspension, upgraded aero, and active limited-slip rear diff) in this condition would not have a big deal a year ago.Sold for $104,500Chassis no. 1G1YY22G2W5117410. Ferrari Yellow over black and gray leather. Original, #2- condition.Equipment: 5.7L/440hp LS1 V-8, six-speed, adjustable suspension, carbon fiber dash trim.Condition: Represented as one of 20 built, the only one in this color, and with 5408 miles. The paint and weatherstripping are starting to show their age a tiny bit, but it’s mostly a gorgeous presentation and of course much more than a re-bodied Corvette.Bottom line: Based on the contemporary C5 Corvette but restyled with only the Vette’s glass, roof, and door handles remaining in place, the C12 raced at Le Mans and took the class pole there in 2001. Callaway offered it from 1997 to 2001, at an average price of approximately $200K. Today, it’s a bit obscure, and its performance advantages over a base C5 are less impressive in a world with C6s, C7s, and C8s. The cool factor and racing connection are enough to keep these cars desirable, but not extremely so. A handful have sold at auction over the years, and this price in 2025 is roughly in the middle of the range.Sold for $370,700Chassis no. E53F001103. Polo White over red vinyl. Older restoration, #3+ condition.Equipment: 235cid/150hp I-6, Powerglide two-speed automatic, wheel covers, Firestone whitewalls, WonderBar radio.Condition: Number 103 of 300 Corvettes built for the inaugural 1953 model year. Pulled out of long-term storage in 2003 and restored. Paint is crazed on most surfaces, and there are large chips near the right headlight. Headlight bezels don’t fit flush. Tires look old. Underbody and interior both look very good.Bottom line: On June 30, 1953, GM built the very first Corvette and would go on to build just 299 more for the model year, all finished in Polo White over red. The two-seat roadster with its gaping chrome grille, upbeat-looking single headlights, and curved windshield certainly looked the part of a sports car, but its performance on the road left a lot to be desired. Even so, it’s the first Corvette and it’s rare, so ’53s are quite valuable since any large Corvette collection would seek one out as a bookend. Prices have been fairly steady over the years, and this one sold at the Worldwide Hilton Head auction in 2007 for $440,000. Then, it sold here two years ago for a surprisingly high $550,000. Given the age of its restoration, the result here in 2025 is more realistic.Sold for $990,000Chassis no. F14HNY60978. Black and gray with sponsor graphics. Custom, #2- condition.Equipment: 3.5-liter/914hp EcoBoost V-6 3D-printed intake manifold designed by Ford Performance, custom all-wheel-drive system, custom wheels made by Fuel Off-Road, Toyo tires.Condition: Built by Ken Block/Hoonigan team, in collaboration with Detroit Speed, for the viral Gymkhana drift video series over the course of two years. Driven by Ken Block in the Gymkhana videos, its debut being in 2018 in the 10th installment of Block’s Gymkhana series and also used in his Climbkhana 2 film.Bottom line: The late Ken Block’s videos are still wildly popular, especially among younger car people. This is the most significant of his serious custom vehicles to come to auction, and it’s the most expensive. Although the final price for it is a bit less than the $1.1M a dealership listed it for a few years ago, bidding for it in Scottsdale was fast and feverish. To enthusiasts of a certain age, a cool vehicle from a viral YouTube video has as much star power as one from a famous movie.Sold for $1,925,000Chassis no. ZA9H11UA3ESF76050. Black Carbon over black leather. Original, #2 condition.Equipment: 5980cc/730hp twin-turbo V-12, semi-automatic gearbox.Condition: One of 100 cars built for the 2014 model year and was ordered with the $180,000 “Tempesta Package,” which reportedly included exposed carbon fiber, a front diffuser, larger wheels, and a burnt titanium exhaust system. The seats show very mild signs of use, but overall the car looks barely driven.Bottom line: Built in tiny numbers to unique specs at exorbitant prices, Paganis are almost as much design studies as they are exotic automobiles, with sci-fi interiors and poster-worthy engine bays. Even the mirrors are gorgeous. Most of the select few Huayras that have come to auction in recent years sold in the high-$1M to mid-$2M range, which puts this one on the higher end of things. It was the third-most expensive car sold at Barrett-Jackson this year, and the ninth-most expensive car sold in all the January auctions.Sold for $456,500Chassis no. 1FAFP90S95Y400925. Mark II Black over black. Modified original, #3+ condition.Equipment: 5.4-liter V-8, Heffner Performance twin-turbocharger system in place of the original supercharger, six-speed, red calipers, aftermarket slotted rotors, BBS wheels, McIntosh stereo, Bridgestone Potenza tires.Condition: Represented with 8000 miles, which is remarkably high for a GT. Not that this is cause for concern, it’s just that nobody seems to drive these cars very far. This one shows little more age than other, lower-mile ones out there. Black with no stripes might be the sharpest look of all for the 2005-06 GT.Bottom line: This car sold for $287,500 on Bring a Trailer in 2021, which was about right for the market at the time. Given its modifications and its mileage the result in 2025 is surprisingly high, especially since other, lower-mile GTs at the same sale brought little more than half a million dollars.Sold for $31,900Chassis no. WDBCA45D3JA393306. Arctic White over dark gray leather. Original, #3+ condition.Equipment: 5549cc/238hp V-8, automatic, Michelin tires, sunroof, car phone, Becker Grand Prix radio.Condition: Bought new by Johnny Carson, who kept it until 2003. Extensive refurbishing in 2017. Good paint. Clean wheels and tires. Some of the exterior trim is a little dull. Showing 86,832 miles. Some of the interior trim is cracked, which is common on these cars, but the interior is mostly good. A nice but unremarkable SEC with celebrity history.Bottom line: Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. He was no Jay Leno when it comes to automotive enthusiasm, but Carson nevertheless owned some cool cars. The result for this one is spot-on for the condition with no notable premium for the celebrity seat time. The story doesn’t end here, though. Immediately after Barrett-Jackson, the car popped up on Bring a Trailer with the same seller from Arizona. Presumably he wasn’t happy with the bidding on the block in Scottsdale earlier in the week before the bigger crowds got there, and bid it up to keep ownership of the car. Bring a Trailer is generally a vanue that’s better-suited to ’80s Benzes than the muscle and restomod heaven that is Barrett-Jackson, but the car nevertheless sold for $34,179 (including fees) online. Looks like the seller lost money here, and it’s another example that although celebrity ownership can be a boost to value, it’s never a guarantee.Sold for $1,210,000Chassis no. 2FAGP9CW9KH200233. Grabber Orange over Dark Energy leather. Original, #2 condition.Equipment: 3.5-liter/647hp V-6, automatic, Extended Carbon-Fiber Package, 20-inch gloss carbon-fiber wheels, Akrapovic titanium exhaust, Sparco seats with six-point harnesses.Condition: Represented with just 1613 miles and $95,450 in options. This is also supposedly the only GT ever finished in Grabber Orange. No surprise, it’s in like-new condition.Bottom line: The Grabber Orange on a new GT is a bit unusual, a bit McLaren-y, maybe. But it does look good. GT values have dipped a bit over the last couple of years as their novelty has worn off and as more examples hit the auction market, so anything over a million lately is a bit of a surprise and I’m not the only one who thinks this orange looks good.The Z06 was reported to have factory cloth seats that were never production. All the Corvettes were under value. The million dollar cars mostly broke even.A 1980 Datsun 200SX Coupe is a weird one to see at an auction. The surprise to see one that has not rusted to death is remarkable for an otherwise boring car from 1980.Someone still lost $40k+ storing an unused corvette since 2001.I question the reference to the 67 Camaro. 327/375 hp. Don’t think so unless modified. 350 yes.Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment * Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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