SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 26, 2026--
Barrett-Jackson, The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions, jump-started 2026 with the ultimate automotive lifestyle experience during the 2026 Scottsdale Auction, held Jan. 17-25, at WestWorld of Scottsdale. Celebrating its 54th year, the Scottsdale Auction hosted 6,500 bidders who competed for 1,911 No Reserve collectible vehicles that resulted in more than $191 million in auction sales.
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Some of the biggest moments happened on Super Saturday, presented by Gila River Resorts & Casinos, led by the sale of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe ( Lot #1377 ) for $2.53 million and high energy sale of the 1966 Lincoln Continental Custom Convertible ( Lot #1426 ) which sold for $1.1 million. Across the auction, nine vehicles ‒ including the one-of-one 2026 Chevrolet Corvette Stars & Steel Limited Edition ZR1X ( Lot #3008 ) that hammered for $2.6 million and generated an additional $5,000 donation from the Scottsdale Fire Department ‒ raised a total of $5,855,000 for charitable causes. To date, Barrett-Jackson has raised more than $170 million for charity.
“Our Scottsdale Auction once again set the tone for what promises to be another incredible year for the collector car hobby,” said Craig Jackson, chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson. “We kicked off Barrett-Jackson auction week with our third annual Rock The Block concert featuring Cole Swindell and continued to dial up the excitement throughout the week with the ultimate automotive lifestyle event. Some of our best-of-the-best moments in Scottsdale started with our Opening Night Gala and VIP dinner and culminated with a tremendous three hours of our highest sales on Super Saturday that generated incredible energy in the room. One of the highlights was when Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Linda Perry rolled up onto the auction block in her 1967 Chevrolet Camaro ( Lot #4000 ), singing her smash hit ‘What’s Up’ with a gospel choir leading the way. We created so many magical memories this year, including the sale of a one-of-one Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X ( Lot #3008 ) that sold for over $2.6 million to benefit the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. We’re looking forward to continuing this momentum in Palm Beach this April.”
The top 10 auction vehicles that sold during the 2026 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction included:
“The demand for late model supercars was incredibly strong in Scottsdale, like the 2019 McLaren Senna ( Lot #1366 ) that hammered in at nearly $2 million,” said Jackson. “There was also a healthy demand for rare, restored classics, like the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe ( Lot #1377 ) that was our top sale, commanding over $2.5 million, as well as the 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster ( Lot #1378 ) that brought in $1.87 million.”
On Friday, Jan. 16, the third annual Rock The Block concert, sponsored in part by Arizona Lottery and Tito’s, kicked off the auction week, headlined by country music star Cole Swindell with Chase Rice as the opening act. Fifty world-class custom vehicles were showcased on the auction block on Saturday as part of the Barrett-Jackson Cup Parade presented by CRC and BluePrint Engines. Capturing this year’s coveted Barrett-Jackson Cup Ultimate Best in Show was a 1959 Chevy Impala, while a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette was presented with the People’s Choice award.
“Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale this January was the center of the automotive world and hobby,” said Steve Davis, president of Barrett-Jackson. “I was proud to assemble a diverse docket with our team that absolutely rocked the block all week long, giving bidders of every level the chance to own their dream collectible vehicle. Of course, the most touching moments were the sales of our charity vehicles that raised millions of dollars and awareness for our military, first responders, education and life-saving medical research. Now, we set our sights on Palm Beach this April and look forward to creating even more memorable moments on the auction block.”
The Scottsdale Auction raised $5,855,000 for charity through the sale of nine vehicles, which included:
Celebrity vehicles that crossed the block in Scottsdale this year included:
Festivities kicked off in spectacular style on Sunday, Jan. 16, with the Opening Night Gala, a glamorous event that officially marked the beginning of Barrett-Jackson auction week. Celebrations continued Monday with an invitation-only welcome dinner hosted at Ocean 44. During the auction, entertainment icons, professional athletes and titans of industry joined attendees to indulge in the world’s most immersive automotive lifestyle event. Celebrities in attendance during this year’s auction included Arie Luyendyk, Bogi Lateiner, Chip Foose, Clay Millican, Constance Nunez, Dave Kindig, Drew Brees, Eric Curran, Erik Estrada, Frankie Muniz, Jack Roush, Jacoby Ellsbury, JB Smoove, Jeff Lutz, Josh Ross, Josh Sweat, KevDogg, Linda Perry, Mark Martin, Mike Leake, Papa Snoop, Paul Bissonnette, Ray Whitney, Richard Rawlings, Rob Wolfe, Tim Allen, Tony Orlando, Trevor Megill and Walker Buehler.
With 949 authentic pieces of automobilia selling for $4.7 million, the top three sales included:
Barrett-Jackson returns to Palm Beach for its next collector car auction Apr. 16-18, 2026. For advance tickets, click here. Barrett-Jackson VIP Experience packages for the 2026 Palm Beach Auction are available here. Consignments for the 2026 Palm Beach Auction are being accepted here. Bidder registration is available here.
Barrett-Jackson will host its inaugural Columbus Auction at the Ohio Expo Center & State Fairgrounds, June 25-27, 2026, and is returning to Nevada for its Las Vegas Auction Sept. 10-12 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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About The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company
Established in 1971 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Barrett-Jackson, The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions, is the leader in collector car auctions and automotive lifestyle events, which include authentic automobilia auctions and the sale of private collections. Welcoming hundreds of thousands of attendees per year, Barrett-Jackson hosts live collector car auctions in Scottsdale, Arizona; Palm Beach, Florida; Columbus, Ohio; and Las Vegas, Nevada, where thousands of the most sought-after, unique and valuable vehicles cross the block in front of a global audience. With broadcast partner A+E Networks, Barrett-Jackson features live television coverage of their events on FYI and The HISTORY Channel, as well as all the cars, all the time via their produced livestream on Barrett-Jackson.com. Also based in Scottsdale, the Barrett-Jackson Collection Showroom offers a rotating selection of premium vehicles that meet the high standards for which the company is known. For more information about Barrett-Jackson, visit www.barrett-jackson.com, or call 480-421-6694.
Barrett-Jackson’s 2026 Scottsdale Auction achieved $195.2 million in total auction sales with a 100% No Reserve docket featuring 1,911 collectible
Many in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 26 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold.
Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered wide school closures Monday. The National Weather Service said areas north of Pittsburgh got up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of snow and faced wind chills as low as minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 31 degrees Celsius) late Monday into Tuesday.
The bitter cold afflicting two-thirds of the U.S. wasn't going away. The weather service said Monday that a fresh influx of artic air is expected to sustain freezing temperatures in places already covered in snow and ice. And forecasters said it's possible another winter storm could hit parts of the East Coast this weekend.
A rising death toll included two people run over by snowplows in Massachusetts and Ohio, fatal sledding accidents in Arkansas and Texas, and a woman whose body was found covered in snow by police with bloodhounds after she was last seen leaving a Kansas bar. In New York City, officials said eight people were found dead outdoors in the course of the frigid weekend.
There were still more than 690,000 power outages in the nation Monday afternoon, according to poweroutage.com. Most of them were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages on northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.
Parts of Mississippi were reeling in the aftermath of the state's worst ice storm since 1994. Officials scrambled Monday to get cots, blankets, bottled water and generators to warming stations in hard-hit areas.
The University of Mississippi, where most students hunkered down without power Monday, canceled classes for the entire week as its Oxford campus remained coated in treacherous ice. Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill said on social media that so many trees, limbs and power lines had fallen that “it looks like a tornado went down every street.”
A pair of burly, falling tree branches damaged real estate agent Tim Phillips' new garage, broke a window and cut off power to his home in Oxford. He said half of his neighbors had homes or vehicles damaged.
“It’s just one of those things that you try to prepare for,” Phillips said, “but this one was just unreal.”
The U.S. had more than 8,000 flight delays and cancellations nationwide Monday, according to flight tracker flightaware.com. On Sunday, 45% of U.S. flights got cancelled, making it the highest day for cancellations since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.
More light to moderate snow was forecast in New England through Monday evening.
New York City saw its snowiest day in years, with neighborhoods recording 8 to 15 inches (20 to 38 cm) of snow. Though public schools shut down, roughly 500,000 students were told to log in for online lessons Monday. Snow days off from school melted away in New York, the nation's largest public school system, after remote learning gained traction during the coronavirus pandemic.
Meanwhile, bitter cold followed in the storm's wake. Communities across the Midwest, South, and Northeast awakened Monday to subzero weather. The entire Lower 48 states were forecast to have their coldest average low temperature of minus 9.8 F (minus 12.3 C) since January 2014.
In the Nashville, Tennessee, area, electricity returned for thousands of homes and businesses Monday, while more than 170,000 others awoke bundled up in powerless homes after subfreezing temperatures overnight. Many hotels were sold out overnight to residents escaping dark and frigid homes.
Alex Murray booked a Nashville hotel room for his family to ensure they had a working freezer to preserve pumped breast milk to feed their 6-month-old daughter. Anticipating a long wait until power gets restored at his home, Murray planned to extend their hotel stay through Wednesday.
“I know there’s many people that may not be able to find a place or pay for a place or anything like that, or even travel,” Murray said Monday. “So, we were really fortunate.”
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office said at least eight people were found dead outside as temperatures plunged between Saturday and Monday morning, though the cause of their deaths remained under investigation.
In Emporia, Kansas, police searching with bloodhounds found a 28-year-old teacher dead and covered in snow. Police said she had was last seen leaving a bar without her coat and phone.
Police said snowplows backed into two people who died in Norwood, Massachusetts, and Dayton, Ohio. And authorities said two teenagers, one in Arkansas and another in Texas, were killed in sledding accidents.
Officials reported four deaths in Tennessee, three deaths apiece in Louisiana and Pennsylvania; two deaths in Mississippi; and one in New Jersey.
Kramon reported from Atlanta. Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. AP journalists Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama; Sophie Bates in Jackson, Mississippi; Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee; Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; Jennifer Peltz in in New York; Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio; Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana sand Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas, contributed to this story.
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People sled at Philadelphia Art Museum steps by the Rocky statue during a winter storm in Philadelphia, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Carrie Hampton tries to navigate a snowy intersection without spilling her coffee in New York, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
A person walks their dog in the snow after a storm in Portsmouth, N.H., Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
In this image provided by the City of Oxford, Miss., snow and ice cover trees and streets as a winter storm passes through, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Oxford, Miss. (Josh McCoy/City of Oxford, Miss. via AP)
A man digs a car out of the snow on Beacon Hill following a winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow across the region, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
A plow clears snow in front of the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Sadie Eidson, left, laughs while playing in the snow in Central Park during a winter storm, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Snow covers houses in Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
A pedestrian crosses the street near Radio City Music Hall during a winter storm, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
People walk across the Brooklyn Bridge during a winter storm, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Sydney Schaefer)
A motorist passes an ice covered tree limb blocking a lane along West End Ave. during a winter storm Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
People walk through downtown Toronto as a winter storm moves through the region, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (Cole Burston/The Canadian Press via AP)
