By Darryl

The Barrett-Jackson car auction in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona is off to a start with many highlighted vehicles selling for millions including the very first production 2014 Corvette Stingray, the same one that was on display at the Detroit Auto Show, nabbing $1.1 million in its auction. All of the proceeds will go benefit College for Creative Studies.

Other highlights so far include an original 1966 Batmobile selling for an astonishing $4,620,000 at the drop of the hammer along with Clark Gable’s 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing for $1.85 million.

There were some slight disappointments in the hammer price of vehicles such as President George W. Bush’s 2009 Ford F-150 only nabbing $300,000 even after Jay Leno’s voicestress persuasions helming the bidding. Though, the full $300K will happily go to the Fisher House Foundation – a truly good cause.

There were many other notable vehicles to roll off of the action block including a 1986 Porsche 959 Prototype selling for $440,000, an extremely rare 1947 Talbot-Lago T-26 Grand Sport selling for just over $2 million and a 1956 Chrysler Diablo Concept for $1,375,000 at the hammer.

The Barrett-Jackson auction still has many other vehicles to cross the block expected to bring in unimaginable numbers. Nearly 1,400 vehicles in total are expected to cross the auction block setting new world records while putting an eternal smile on the faces of newfound owners and sellers of some of the rarest vehicles around.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Automotive Addicts