February 1, 2024 • 14 mins
Tony Powell talks us through his serendipitous discovery of the auction for the 1969 brush truck from Burton Fire Department, shared by a local news station. Fueled by his affection for old cars, Tony found himself bidding on and winning the vehicle — a process made simple and straightforward through Municibid. Over the course of owning the truck, he learned about its rich history, including its refurbishment by volunteer firemen and its previous use as a parade vehicle adorned in festive lights.
At the heart of this episode are themes of historical preservation, the thrill of auctions, and the intricacies of owning a classic fire truck. Tony shares his experiences driving and showcasing the vehicle, along with the challenges and joys that come with such a unique ownership. The 1969 brush truck’s story continues as Tony passes on the legacy of the truck to another enthusiast.
About the Guest:
Tony Powell is a resident of Chestain, Michigan, and an avid vehicle enthusiast with a particular interest in classic cars. After his children moved out to pursue their college education, he found himself delving into the world of classic vehicles, with his first acquisition being a classic 1969 brush truck from the Burton Fire Department. Tony enjoys working on vehicles and embraces the culture surrounding vintage cars and trucks.
Key Takeaways:
- Tony Powell's entry into the classic car scene began with the acquisition of a 1969 brush truck from a local fire department auction.
- The fire truck had a unique history, featuring a rebuild by volunteer firemen and use in parades and community events.
- Buying through a government auction with Municibid offers the advantage of acquiring well-maintained vehicles with significant historical value.
- The thrill and competitiveness of the auction process can lead to paying higher prices, but the subsequent resale can be profitable.
Additional Resources:
- Explore the wild world of government surplus at Municibid
- Learn more about Government Surplus Vehicles: https://blog.municibid.com/the-government-surplus-vehicle-guide/
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Sophie Eden (00:00):
Hi, Tony, I'm delighted to chat with you today
about the brush truck you won.
To start.
Can you tell us a little aboutyourself?
Tony Powell (00:07):
Name is Tony Powell.
I'm from chestain, Michigan.
I I got three kids, wife my kidsare all older.
Actually the last one's an aadult just the other day.
So I have no kids living withme.
They're just adults.
They're all off to college andeverything.
I kind of got into, I guess thetruck that I bought on here was
my first classic car.
(00:28):
Kind of got into them.
I like working on vehicles andso forth.
Sophie Eden (00:31):
Wonderful.
Can you kind of start us fromthe beginning?
Why a firetruck?
What, what started that?
Tony Powell (00:39):
That's I put on Facebook, and that's what
everybody said too.
What are you gonna do now withit?
I like the old cars and that onecame up.
How, this is how I heard ofMunicibid.
ABC 12.
What's the local news stationaround here?
In the Burton Fire Department,which is is local.
I seen a little story on thenews about it and I'm like, wow,
(01:02):
that's pretty nice.
And I don't remember if theymentioned Municibid or there was
a link on the site or whatever.
So I kind of looked into it alittle bit.
I think I called him if Iremember correctly, and got a
little bit of information on it.
And then kind of the nightbefore it happened.
You know, you gotta ask the wifeif it was okay.
I mentioned it several times.
She really didn't say anything,so we were laying in bed one
(01:24):
night, she goes to bed a littleearly and I had the laptop just
kinda looking at it, and I kindof mentioned something to her
and she says, well, if you.
Want it, you know, bid on it.
There was no, you know, readbetween the lines, I'm in
trouble if I buy it.
It was a sincere, I can buy it.
Well, apparently she wassleeping.
So the next day I looked at it alittle bit more and stuff and
(01:46):
the next day I started biddingon it.
I was at work so and I startedbidding on it.
And of course, anything I bidon, I'm gonna win.
I don't know if I won, butprobably overpaid for it a
little bit.
But probably within 30 minutesafter that, the Burton Fire
Department called me, said I, Iwon it and you know how the, the
details and everything, sothought I'd play it safe.
(02:06):
I grabbed my father-in-law justin case I was in trouble, and we
went down and got it.
I got to meet the, I dunno if hewas like the captain in chief.
But got to meet them.
I got it and everything anddrove it back up.
It was, it's pretty cool.
I'm not a.
Volunteer firemen or anythinglike that, but it's, you know,
it had the lights.
It had flames on it.
The volunteer fireman redid itand everything, And drove it
(02:30):
home, parked it in the barn.
Of course the wife drove in andshe likes that kinda stuff too.
So I wasn't in too much trouble.
But probably about a half anhour later, I had ABC 12 calling
me, and they wanted to do alittle story.
Little follow up story on it.
So they asked me a bunch ofquestions.
Of course the fire departmentinvited me back down for the
(02:51):
parade and, and so forth, whichI didn't end up going.
I had some problems with thevehicle, but but yeah, and then
later that night it aired and alot of my family and stuff seen
it.
So it was all pretty cool.
And you know, that was kind,that was kind of the process of
it, and I drove it around for.
For probably a year.
(03:11):
And, you know, I had my fun withit.
I was gonna redo it and, youknow, keep it, but you know, the
value and the history is, youknow, the fire department and
everything.
And I didn't really wanna pullthat off and devalue it.
I didn't know what I was gonnado with it.
You know, I, I bought the thing,like you say, why the fire
department?
Well, didn't.
(03:33):
No, I was gonna get it.
So I didn't plan on anythinguntil after I bought it.
But it, it, it was kind of neat.
I've been to a few car shows andso forth and you know, like I
said, I didn't wanna devalue itand I was looking on, I think it
was Craigslist and there wassomebody that had a real
similar, it was a suburban, itwould end up being an ambulance.
(03:56):
I.
Same years, you know, low miles,all that kinda stuff.
And I got talking with him.
I said, Hey, if anybody wants apackage deal you know, I'm
possibly sell this one.
And the guy just started talkingto me.
It was a younger guy, downstate.
And He was interested in it.
So he came up and, you know, weworked out a deal.
I made a little bit of money onit and so forth.
(04:18):
And then I don't know when itwas, I just kinda started doing
a search cuz there's all sortsof articles on this truck.
I think the volunteer departmentkind of wanted to save it.
I don't know why they didn'tkeep it.
It's not like it was costing'emanything, you know, maybe some
insurance or something.
They were, you know, of courseit's taking up room and so
forth, but there was a lot ofsave the brush truck and, and,
(04:40):
and so forth.
The the vehicle itself wasredone.
By the volunteer department.
They rebuilt the engine, theyrepainted it, they put the
flames on, they put the lift kiton.
It's more of a parade vehicle,if anything.
So it's got the guys that workedon it.
Cause I was reading an articleon Facebook and it said
(05:00):
something about so-and-so andso-and-so redid that because on
the Nerf bars, they made theNerf bars for it and it welded
their names on it.
And it was, I think it was Aland Corey, I think, or something
that was welded on the bottom.
It was pretty cool.
And I think there was a memorialthing on the side.
But It was pretty cool, but Iended up selling it and it I did
(05:21):
a search for it and I found acouple auction sites that it was
on.
It looks like maybe they triedselling it, I don't know.
And then I found it on BarrettJackson, but there was pictures
at Bear Jackson and I seen themonline and everything, so it
was, it was kind of neat.
It was a neat story andeverything, and I don't know, it
was kind of exciting.
So how, that was kinda my firstold truck, I guess.
Sophie Eden (05:44):
Yeah.
Had you driven like a fire truckor like an older classic truck
like this before?
Tony Powell (05:50):
No, not this old.
You know, of course growing up,you know, whatever vehicles we
had, I got my dad's 86 and a anda few you know, eighties
vehicles.
I just bought a 66 Chevelle fewmonths ago.
But no, that was kinda like thefirst one.
So it was kinda neat.
I'm more of a truck person, soit was cool.
I just didn't wanna take allthat stuff off of there.
(06:13):
And, you know, I don't wanna saydevalue it, but you're kind of
ruling the story story behindit.
So,
Sophie Eden (06:19):
So when you had it were you using it more as a
daily driver, rather than like awork truck?
Or nope.
Were you kinda trying to keep ithis condition.
Tony Powell (06:30):
Yeah, it was more of a classic vehicle.
It was 1969 and it had 32,000miles, so it wasn't, it was very
low miles and yeah, it was justparked in the barn, you know,
don't drive in the rain,anything like that.
Just like a classic, classicvehicle.
So it was more of a, you know,drive it uptown, you know, get
(06:51):
some ice cream or just drive itaround the block, drive it to a
friend's house or, or somethinglike that.
We took it to the Frankie Movecar show, which was.
It's a really big car show.
My wife's boss puts it on and Idon't know how many thousands of
vehicles are there, but we gotin the street and it just, they
open up the street.
You can park on the street onFriday and.
(07:13):
We got in there and it's justlike people come around you, so
you really couldn't do anything.
And I had a couple people comingup to me, they said, Hey, this
is the Burton, the firedepartment, were you the one
that bought it?
And so forth.
So got a little information outof it, but yeah, it's just, I
just, it's just a pleasurevehicle, classic vehicle.
Sophie Eden (07:30):
Before we jump back in, I wanted to let you know,
you can find all sorts of itemsover at municibid.com.
From police vehicles to heavyequipment.
Computers to classic fire truckslike Tony is talking about.
Bidding is open to the public.
Any cool little like tidbitsthat you learned about the truck
(07:52):
or like about how the truck wasused before it became like a
parade vehicle.
Tony Powell (07:58):
It was kind of neat because the title was from 1969.
It's nothing like today's title.
It was just a short little pieceof paper.
It was all original andeverything.
I made copies of it and actuallygot it back.
It went with the vehicle.
Kinda learned a little bitthere.
It was in full use as a brushtruck.
They decorated it with Christmaslights at one time.
(08:20):
People that got an award orsomething, they were standing in
front of it.
They tried getting all thempictures and so forth, but the
history behind it, I pulledeverything.
But the vehicle was purchased in1969 by the Burton Fire
Department, and it never reallywent anywhere.
You know, it was always used forthe work vehicle and, and a
brush truck.
And they had you know, when theyblocked the road off or
something, they had that vehiclesitting right there.
Sophie Eden (08:42):
That's amazing.
When you picked up the vehiclelike it ran and you were able to
like, drive it back home noproblem.
Tony Powell (08:48):
Drove it home.
Yeah, it was it's kinda a heavy,heavy duty truck and it's got
the stick in it with the grannygear, so it is, you get going 55
mile an hour down the road.
It is, it's howling at you.
It's, it's loud cause it's overreved.
It's probably not meant to go55, but yeah, it's, it's, it's
hard to drive the stick, I meandrove it in the in town and
(09:12):
stuff, and man, if you gottahold your foot on the clutch,
you're gonna get worn out.
I know my wife never drove it.
She probably couldn't push inthe clutch.
It was just a heavy dutyvehicle.
But everything ran really good.
I think I had to put a newbattery in it.
A couple minor things just totouch up some stuff.
Cleaned it up a little bit.
But that's about it.
Change oil, regular maintenancestuff.
Sophie Eden (09:33):
Nice.
What advice would you give tosomeone who was looking for a
brush truck or maybe looking toget into looking at like more
classic trucks and that it wouldbe their first time buying that
type of vehicle?
Tony Powell (09:47):
Man, get ready to pay.
Classic vehicles really went up.
You know, like I say, I boughtthree in the last couple year.
Well, four, including this one.
Just the prices went through theroof.
Everybody wants'em.
You know, all the ones I want.
I think everybody's getting upto age that they can afford'em.
Sophie Eden (10:05):
Was Municibid the first time that you had
participated in a governmentauction or like, were you
familiar with governmentauctions before?
Tony Powell (10:13):
No, I was, I was not familiar with them
whatsoever.
ABC 12 had that link.
I went there and I probablyspent a lot of time on your site
just looking at other vehiclesand I like the auction stuff.
So you know, just seeing whatthings go for.
You learn quite a bit.
There's some, you know, schoolsand stuff lately that had a
bunch of stuff.
(10:33):
But yeah, I never, neverpurchased anything from there.
You know, far as this vehicle, Idon't remember.
They called me up.
You know, I think I had to gothere and purchase it.
I don't remember what the wholeprocess was, but it was
straightforward, easy to do.
You know, that was, I forget howmany years ago, but Yeah, I
don't remember having an issue.
(10:54):
It was pretty simple.
You know, all the, I, I was onyour site today.
You know, you guys goteverything in there, so it's
pretty straightforward.
Sophie Eden (11:01):
That's great to hear.
What did you like the most aboutparticipating in a government
auction?
Tony Powell (11:08):
Far as, you know, actually won it and stuff.
That was awesome.
I don't know about paying forit, but I don't know.
I, I like all this stuff, youknow, some of the farm auctions
and stuff.
It's, it's just kind ofaddicting.
I probably spend more hours thanI need to.
And Just to see what's outthere.
It's kind of a learning thingtoo.
You see what stuff goes for.
(11:30):
You see what other people arewilling to bid on it.
You know, like this vehicle, Iprobably spent over twice much
that I wanted to, but you kindof realize if there's other
people out there.
Wanting to buy it.
It must be worth it, you know?
And it just wasn't one guyoutbidding me.
And then, you know, of course Isold it for way more money.
So, you know, someone wanted to,and then when it went on Bear
(11:52):
Jackson, I think it went forhalf of what I sold it for.
So it's, it's a, it's a biggame.
Sophie Eden (11:57):
What advice would you give to others who were
looking to participate ingovernment auctions and had
never used government auctionsbefore?
Tony Powell (12:06):
I don't know.
I definitely you know, I toldseveral people about Municibid
right after I purchased thatone.
It's, it's a good way to get.
You know, government or, orschool or whatever it is,
vehicles that, you know, mayhave very low hours on'em or, or
(12:26):
most of the time they're verywell taken care of.
I mean, they're gonna be oldand, and things are gonna be
wrong with them, but you know,like the fire department,
they're really big on theservice and everything.
I work at a big company.
I know all the vehicles.
They probably spend more moneythan a normal person would, you
know, to take care of thisstuff.
So it definitely wouldn't beafraid of any government site or
(12:47):
anything like that.
It's probably the probably waysafer than, you know, eBay or
Marketplace or anything likethat.
So you're dealing with probablysome professionals instead of
professional thieves.
Sophie Eden (13:02):
Oh, good point.
Yeah.
And we absolutely love you know,talking with you and our other
customers and hearing yourstories and kind of the life
after winning an item and how itwent and how you used it is very
fascinating well thank you somuch Tony.
Really appreciate your time andit's been an absolute pleasure
(13:24):
chatting with you today.
Tony Powell (13:26):
Awesome.
Great.
And thanks again for doing this.
Hi, Tony, I'm delighted to chat with you today
about the brush truck you won.
To start.
Can you tell us a little aboutyourself?
Tony Powell (00:07):
Name is Tony Powell.
I'm from chestain, Michigan.
I I got three kids, wife my kidsare all older.
Actually the last one's an aadult just the other day.
So I have no kids living withme.
They're just adults.
They're all off to college andeverything.
I kind of got into, I guess thetruck that I bought on here was
my first classic car.
(00:28):
Kind of got into them.
I like working on vehicles andso forth.
Sophie Eden (00:31):
Wonderful.
Can you kind of start us fromthe beginning?
Why a firetruck?
What, what started that?
Tony Powell (00:39):
That's I put on Facebook, and that's what
everybody said too.
What are you gonna do now withit?
I like the old cars and that onecame up.
How, this is how I heard ofMunicibid.
ABC 12.
What's the local news stationaround here?
In the Burton Fire Department,which is is local.
I seen a little story on thenews about it and I'm like, wow,
(01:02):
that's pretty nice.
And I don't remember if theymentioned Municibid or there was
a link on the site or whatever.
So I kind of looked into it alittle bit.
I think I called him if Iremember correctly, and got a
little bit of information on it.
And then kind of the nightbefore it happened.
You know, you gotta ask the wifeif it was okay.
I mentioned it several times.
She really didn't say anything,so we were laying in bed one
(01:24):
night, she goes to bed a littleearly and I had the laptop just
kinda looking at it, and I kindof mentioned something to her
and she says, well, if you.
Want it, you know, bid on it.
There was no, you know, readbetween the lines, I'm in
trouble if I buy it.
It was a sincere, I can buy it.
Well, apparently she wassleeping.
So the next day I looked at it alittle bit more and stuff and
(01:46):
the next day I started biddingon it.
I was at work so and I startedbidding on it.
And of course, anything I bidon, I'm gonna win.
I don't know if I won, butprobably overpaid for it a
little bit.
But probably within 30 minutesafter that, the Burton Fire
Department called me, said I, Iwon it and you know how the, the
details and everything, sothought I'd play it safe.
(02:06):
I grabbed my father-in-law justin case I was in trouble, and we
went down and got it.
I got to meet the, I dunno if hewas like the captain in chief.
But got to meet them.
I got it and everything anddrove it back up.
It was, it's pretty cool.
I'm not a.
Volunteer firemen or anythinglike that, but it's, you know,
it had the lights.
It had flames on it.
The volunteer fireman redid itand everything, And drove it
(02:30):
home, parked it in the barn.
Of course the wife drove in andshe likes that kinda stuff too.
So I wasn't in too much trouble.
But probably about a half anhour later, I had ABC 12 calling
me, and they wanted to do alittle story.
Little follow up story on it.
So they asked me a bunch ofquestions.
Of course the fire departmentinvited me back down for the
(02:51):
parade and, and so forth, whichI didn't end up going.
I had some problems with thevehicle, but but yeah, and then
later that night it aired and alot of my family and stuff seen
it.
So it was all pretty cool.
And you know, that was kind,that was kind of the process of
it, and I drove it around for.
For probably a year.
(03:11):
And, you know, I had my fun withit.
I was gonna redo it and, youknow, keep it, but you know, the
value and the history is, youknow, the fire department and
everything.
And I didn't really wanna pullthat off and devalue it.
I didn't know what I was gonnado with it.
You know, I, I bought the thing,like you say, why the fire
department?
Well, didn't.
(03:33):
No, I was gonna get it.
So I didn't plan on anythinguntil after I bought it.
But it, it, it was kind of neat.
I've been to a few car shows andso forth and you know, like I
said, I didn't wanna devalue itand I was looking on, I think it
was Craigslist and there wassomebody that had a real
similar, it was a suburban, itwould end up being an ambulance.
(03:56):
I.
Same years, you know, low miles,all that kinda stuff.
And I got talking with him.
I said, Hey, if anybody wants apackage deal you know, I'm
possibly sell this one.
And the guy just started talkingto me.
It was a younger guy, downstate.
And He was interested in it.
So he came up and, you know, weworked out a deal.
I made a little bit of money onit and so forth.
(04:18):
And then I don't know when itwas, I just kinda started doing
a search cuz there's all sortsof articles on this truck.
I think the volunteer departmentkind of wanted to save it.
I don't know why they didn'tkeep it.
It's not like it was costing'emanything, you know, maybe some
insurance or something.
They were, you know, of courseit's taking up room and so
forth, but there was a lot ofsave the brush truck and, and,
(04:40):
and so forth.
The the vehicle itself wasredone.
By the volunteer department.
They rebuilt the engine, theyrepainted it, they put the
flames on, they put the lift kiton.
It's more of a parade vehicle,if anything.
So it's got the guys that workedon it.
Cause I was reading an articleon Facebook and it said
(05:00):
something about so-and-so andso-and-so redid that because on
the Nerf bars, they made theNerf bars for it and it welded
their names on it.
And it was, I think it was Aland Corey, I think, or something
that was welded on the bottom.
It was pretty cool.
And I think there was a memorialthing on the side.
But It was pretty cool, but Iended up selling it and it I did
(05:21):
a search for it and I found acouple auction sites that it was
on.
It looks like maybe they triedselling it, I don't know.
And then I found it on BarrettJackson, but there was pictures
at Bear Jackson and I seen themonline and everything, so it
was, it was kind of neat.
It was a neat story andeverything, and I don't know, it
was kind of exciting.
So how, that was kinda my firstold truck, I guess.
Sophie Eden (05:44):
Yeah.
Had you driven like a fire truckor like an older classic truck
like this before?
Tony Powell (05:50):
No, not this old.
You know, of course growing up,you know, whatever vehicles we
had, I got my dad's 86 and a anda few you know, eighties
vehicles.
I just bought a 66 Chevelle fewmonths ago.
But no, that was kinda like thefirst one.
So it was kinda neat.
I'm more of a truck person, soit was cool.
I just didn't wanna take allthat stuff off of there.
(06:13):
And, you know, I don't wanna saydevalue it, but you're kind of
ruling the story story behindit.
So,
Sophie Eden (06:19):
So when you had it were you using it more as a
daily driver, rather than like awork truck?
Or nope.
Were you kinda trying to keep ithis condition.
Tony Powell (06:30):
Yeah, it was more of a classic vehicle.
It was 1969 and it had 32,000miles, so it wasn't, it was very
low miles and yeah, it was justparked in the barn, you know,
don't drive in the rain,anything like that.
Just like a classic, classicvehicle.
So it was more of a, you know,drive it uptown, you know, get
(06:51):
some ice cream or just drive itaround the block, drive it to a
friend's house or, or somethinglike that.
We took it to the Frankie Movecar show, which was.
It's a really big car show.
My wife's boss puts it on and Idon't know how many thousands of
vehicles are there, but we gotin the street and it just, they
open up the street.
You can park on the street onFriday and.
(07:13):
We got in there and it's justlike people come around you, so
you really couldn't do anything.
And I had a couple people comingup to me, they said, Hey, this
is the Burton, the firedepartment, were you the one
that bought it?
And so forth.
So got a little information outof it, but yeah, it's just, I
just, it's just a pleasurevehicle, classic vehicle.
Sophie Eden (07:30):
Before we jump back in, I wanted to let you know,
you can find all sorts of itemsover at municibid.com.
From police vehicles to heavyequipment.
Computers to classic fire truckslike Tony is talking about.
Bidding is open to the public.
Any cool little like tidbitsthat you learned about the truck
(07:52):
or like about how the truck wasused before it became like a
parade vehicle.
Tony Powell (07:58):
It was kind of neat because the title was from 1969.
It's nothing like today's title.
It was just a short little pieceof paper.
It was all original andeverything.
I made copies of it and actuallygot it back.
It went with the vehicle.
Kinda learned a little bitthere.
It was in full use as a brushtruck.
They decorated it with Christmaslights at one time.
(08:20):
People that got an award orsomething, they were standing in
front of it.
They tried getting all thempictures and so forth, but the
history behind it, I pulledeverything.
But the vehicle was purchased in1969 by the Burton Fire
Department, and it never reallywent anywhere.
You know, it was always used forthe work vehicle and, and a
brush truck.
And they had you know, when theyblocked the road off or
something, they had that vehiclesitting right there.
Sophie Eden (08:42):
That's amazing.
When you picked up the vehiclelike it ran and you were able to
like, drive it back home noproblem.
Tony Powell (08:48):
Drove it home.
Yeah, it was it's kinda a heavy,heavy duty truck and it's got
the stick in it with the grannygear, so it is, you get going 55
mile an hour down the road.
It is, it's howling at you.
It's, it's loud cause it's overreved.
It's probably not meant to go55, but yeah, it's, it's, it's
hard to drive the stick, I meandrove it in the in town and
(09:12):
stuff, and man, if you gottahold your foot on the clutch,
you're gonna get worn out.
I know my wife never drove it.
She probably couldn't push inthe clutch.
It was just a heavy dutyvehicle.
But everything ran really good.
I think I had to put a newbattery in it.
A couple minor things just totouch up some stuff.
Cleaned it up a little bit.
But that's about it.
Change oil, regular maintenancestuff.
Sophie Eden (09:33):
Nice.
What advice would you give tosomeone who was looking for a
brush truck or maybe looking toget into looking at like more
classic trucks and that it wouldbe their first time buying that
type of vehicle?
Tony Powell (09:47):
Man, get ready to pay.
Classic vehicles really went up.
You know, like I say, I boughtthree in the last couple year.
Well, four, including this one.
Just the prices went through theroof.
Everybody wants'em.
You know, all the ones I want.
I think everybody's getting upto age that they can afford'em.
Sophie Eden (10:05):
Was Municibid the first time that you had
participated in a governmentauction or like, were you
familiar with governmentauctions before?
Tony Powell (10:13):
No, I was, I was not familiar with them
whatsoever.
ABC 12 had that link.
I went there and I probablyspent a lot of time on your site
just looking at other vehiclesand I like the auction stuff.
So you know, just seeing whatthings go for.
You learn quite a bit.
There's some, you know, schoolsand stuff lately that had a
bunch of stuff.
(10:33):
But yeah, I never, neverpurchased anything from there.
You know, far as this vehicle, Idon't remember.
They called me up.
You know, I think I had to gothere and purchase it.
I don't remember what the wholeprocess was, but it was
straightforward, easy to do.
You know, that was, I forget howmany years ago, but Yeah, I
don't remember having an issue.
(10:54):
It was pretty simple.
You know, all the, I, I was onyour site today.
You know, you guys goteverything in there, so it's
pretty straightforward.
Sophie Eden (11:01):
That's great to hear.
What did you like the most aboutparticipating in a government
auction?
Tony Powell (11:08):
Far as, you know, actually won it and stuff.
That was awesome.
I don't know about paying forit, but I don't know.
I, I like all this stuff, youknow, some of the farm auctions
and stuff.
It's, it's just kind ofaddicting.
I probably spend more hours thanI need to.
And Just to see what's outthere.
It's kind of a learning thingtoo.
You see what stuff goes for.
(11:30):
You see what other people arewilling to bid on it.
You know, like this vehicle, Iprobably spent over twice much
that I wanted to, but you kindof realize if there's other
people out there.
Wanting to buy it.
It must be worth it, you know?
And it just wasn't one guyoutbidding me.
And then, you know, of course Isold it for way more money.
So, you know, someone wanted to,and then when it went on Bear
(11:52):
Jackson, I think it went forhalf of what I sold it for.
So it's, it's a, it's a biggame.
Sophie Eden (11:57):
What advice would you give to others who were
looking to participate ingovernment auctions and had
never used government auctionsbefore?
Tony Powell (12:06):
I don't know.
I definitely you know, I toldseveral people about Municibid
right after I purchased thatone.
It's, it's a good way to get.
You know, government or, orschool or whatever it is,
vehicles that, you know, mayhave very low hours on'em or, or
(12:26):
most of the time they're verywell taken care of.
I mean, they're gonna be oldand, and things are gonna be
wrong with them, but you know,like the fire department,
they're really big on theservice and everything.
I work at a big company.
I know all the vehicles.
They probably spend more moneythan a normal person would, you
know, to take care of thisstuff.
So it definitely wouldn't beafraid of any government site or
(12:47):
anything like that.
It's probably the probably waysafer than, you know, eBay or
Marketplace or anything likethat.
So you're dealing with probablysome professionals instead of
professional thieves.
Sophie Eden (13:02):
Oh, good point.
Yeah.
And we absolutely love you know,talking with you and our other
customers and hearing yourstories and kind of the life
after winning an item and how itwent and how you used it is very
fascinating well thank you somuch Tony.
Really appreciate your time andit's been an absolute pleasure
(13:24):
chatting with you today.
Tony Powell (13:26):
Awesome.
Great.
And thanks again for doing this.
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