Scottsdale Muscle Still Buffed

I fully expected Scottsdale to result in a dismal showing for muscle car prices. I couldn’t have been more wrong

by Colin Comer

Last year’s Arizona auctions proved that we were indeed due for a well deserved and most predictable “adjustment” in many segments of the muscle car market. As such, 2007 brought us more headlines about the muscle car market “crash” than those of Britney Spears’s need for psychiatric care.

The last twelve months have been filled with intense scrutiny of the muscle market. Now that a full year has passed and we have another stack of results from this year’s Arizona auctions, it’s time to see how the sales match up to the headlines.

Before we get to Scottsdale, it bears mentioning that there are a few key auctions during the year for muscle cars leading up to the January extravaganza. While suspect and less desirable cars continued to return to the swamp from which they came, a good number of cars actually sold for very strong prices. However, the...