Luck Old Car's Evan McMullen

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, welcome back to the show. It's Lee Callahan. This is the
public affair show of your favorite iHeartRadiostation in Seattle. Coming next weekend,
the third and the fourth, Saturdayand Sunday. Get ready for it.
It's the Lucky Old Car Auction happeningat the Lamay Family Collection Foundation in Merrymount,

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outside of Tacoma. On the phoneto tell me all about it.
From Lucky Old Car, I've gotEvan McMullen. Hey, Evan, Hi,
how are you doing? Lee?Good? Now? This happens every
year. It's at the Lamay FamilyCollection in this big plot of land outside
of Tacoma in Merrymount. Not onlyis there already a bunch of cars out

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there, but every year you dothis great auction. How many cars are
coming up on the auction block thisyear? Well, we're gonna have a
two hundred year in our spring classicsale cars of boats and motorcycles and truck
pretty right about it. There's gonnabe a lot of old, wonderful village
pieces. We've got some things thatcame out of the States. We've got

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one from the Steve Ballmer Collection.We've got them from folks in the path
that had coveted them for decades,a lot of little barn finds and treasures.
Really really excited about the statue andhorror they have coming this year to
LeMay. They of course are knownfor their infinite quantity of old cars,
as they've had the largest collection inthe world at one point, and we're

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really excited to be able to presentthese two hundred cars coming up on the
certain fourth to benefit the Lemaine Foundations. Really really good at folks who support
a lot of Pierce County and KiptapGunny King County activities, both with uncompensated
care with the hospitals and with olderfolks. And there's all kinds of activities

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for our kids and in around Halloweenand other events around the year. Just
good clean family fund on the illustriouseighty acre site. And one of the
things we do is is auction thatgenerate proceeds to be able to keep that
place in Sich. You all right, So one thing I've learned from talking
to you over the years, thesecars are not like astronomically priced. It's

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not like if the common folk wantto go down there and look around and
maybe bid on something, it's notout of reach. I mean there are
some good deals to be had,am I right, Well, especially for
someone who has a hankering for aVolkswagen convertible and all Beetle convertible like you.
Yes, there are. We haveall kinds of things for every prance

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point. Because you've got to rememberthat Harold Lemain who made his fortune in
the South County all the way downto Vancouver and Ocean Shores. He was
a garbage man. He came backfrom the Second World War and he built
a little company up become the biggestgarbage company for that side of the Sound.
And when he sold out a fewyears ago, they were three thousand

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cars at mass. All the garbagecollectors would go see them in the people's
backyards or in their garages, andthey put together this gigantic collection of project.
So there's not only projects, there'sblue collar, every day American a
type stuff. You're really a collectedinteresting, wonderful cars as well. We
in the Pacific Northwest have more variedtastes than almost anyone else in the country.

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And you see it in our collectionsof cars, motorcycles and old trucks.
Hey, Evan McCullen is on thephone, with me from Lucky Oldcar
dot Com putting on this big beautifulauction coming up next week in the third
and the fourth out at LeMay MerrymountEvents Center. Let's talk about some of
the cars that are near and dearto your heart. They're going on the

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auction block. You know. There'sa nineteen fifty nine Edtel Villager station wagons,
two toned, like it belonged toPriscilla Presley in Bink was black.
It's absolutely over the top. There'smore chrome on that than there is on

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a thirties pt boat and it's overthe top beautiful. That comes out of
the call in Beginnis collection from WoodyIsland. There's a whole bunch of beautiful
exotic Italian and French stars from citroEnds to a Maserati to Ferrari. There's

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all kinds of beautiful wooden runabout boats. One of them has twin thirty horse
powers in the back dope. Rightthere in Tacoma back in the day in
the late fifties, all of thesethings are actually reasonably affordably priced. There's
just a whole lot of fun stuff. There's a peat lovely little mini jeep
on an Austin Chassis from when hewas a big wing and the car dealership

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in history of racing and then thenorth West. So just a lot of
things with flavor. You come downthere, have a drink, have a
cold beer and an amburger Talcke,enjoy the show. It's open to the
whole family. It's absolutely no feeto come in and enjoy and to be
able to buy a car. Youmight be a surprise we have financing on

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the spot. And again it benefitsthis foundation which does all kinds of good
in a very quiet way to alot of people out there, from the
seniors to kids in the skateboarding park. There's all kinds of different things that
the Lomains do for the folks outhere in the Northwest, not just that
beautiful big museum along NIG five,but also the family collection, and they've

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been doing it for sixty years.They really stand up people who are there
to support the area and things arenot always easy in that part of town.
And I'll tell you it's an oasianceto go to eighty Serene Anchors and
Merrymount, a former Dominicans military boardingschool. Wow. Plus it's got its
own collection. Plus it does thesegreat car auctions. Evan, Yeah,

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is there a car that you couldtalk about maybe the sticker price and what
a good deal you think it couldgo for. Like give us a for
instance, on something we thought mightgo for a lot, and maybe it's
affordable at this auction. Well,you know what, Goudo strikes me and
shot me a little bit. Lea. Is there a lot of youth sports
and dans and stuvs that show up, that come in on trades people who

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are donating them to the foundation,and they may improp seventy eighty one hundred
thousand dollars new. Okay, there'ssix or ten or twelve or fifteen years
old with seventy thousand miles or onehundred thousand miles on them, and they
go through There's probably two dozens ofthem, convertible Mercedes, to path Binders,
to just interesting driver cars of character, and they go for less than

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ten grands. There's a two thousandand six beautiful Mercedes all wheel drive,
you know, big jeep styles,suburban light things that's got what's got you
know, fumed up hair, aTVs in the back. It's absolutely wrapped
in the sumptuous leather it's got everypossible combination of any sort of option you're

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gonna imagine, and it's probably gonnasell for about twelve thousand dollars. There's
absolutely bargains there, There's no twoways about it. If you come down
there and you're patient and you justwait for the right opportunity and pounce,
you will get a really good deal. And people bring the cars there to
sell them. They bring them thereto have fun, and a lot of
what's there is actually being going tothe community, so they're not so fussed

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about the bottom line as there areabout repurposing it and getting into the hands
of somebody who will care and appreciateit. Isn't that the truth? Sometimes
you just wanted to go to somebodywho's gonna love it as much as they
did. There's an old couple thatjust bought a smart car and they've had
this beautiful Carmen Gia since the sixties, and it was worth as much as

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the car they were buying. Yeah, and I said, you know,
why don't we just go ahead andthrow the option. We'll get the star
for your upfront from you know,the youth smart car was only a few
thousand miles gone. They don't drivevery much around town anymore. They pick
this fabulous Carmen Gia. They're puttingit in there for half the price that
the book says. It's word.They just wanted to go to somebody who
cares about it. There's a magnetfrom the East Side who's read all of

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his money and the fat of Greekyogurt, who's done very very well with
that. And I don't mean it'sa fat like it's only gonna be a
one time thing. But it's turnedout to be a huge thing for him.
And he has some very valuable cars. He doesn't have that much parking
space, so he brought us someof the spectacular cars, and he said,
I trust the auction process. Ibelieve that you'll get someone there to

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pay fair money for it. Mywife wants to put her car in the
garage. I can't put my specialtycars in here anymore. I don't blame
her. I'm not gonna lave themoutside. They're gonna sell at the Lucky
Collect Your Car Auction and Merrymount andit's gonna benefit the Lea May Family Foundation.
That's the way people's hearts are withthis stuff. And you can get
a really good bye. Feel goodabout what you've done by helping people and

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helping yourself to a really good dealon a fun weekend. Yea third and
the fourth, the third and thefourth next weekend, Come and ride up,
Lucky Oldcar dot Com. Lucky Oldcardot Com. A beautiful weekend,
A bunch of beautiful cars on abeautiful piece of land sounds fantastic. Evan
McCullough. You go to Merrymount andyou'll be very reflective. You'll have a

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good time. I guarantee you.Lucky Collector Car Auctions, Evan McMullan,
thank you so much, Lucky thatI've got to bw for you, Lee.
I bet you do. I sawa bunch already, vans and convertibles
and little sedans. Lucky Oldcar dotCom. Thank you so much. Evan.
You're the best great here. You'reone to take care of.