The Kibbe & Friends Show: Auction Cars, Groundhog Day, And Tennis Shoes

02/03/2022
10 min read

The Kibbe & Friends Show: Auction Cars, Groundhog Day, And Tennis Shoes

02/03/2022
10 min read

The Kibbe & Friends Show is back! Rob Kibbe, Justin "Corndog" Cornette and Bernie McPartland are back with their discussions of cars, trivia, and the Dukes of Hazzard, and this episode is a bit interesting. For starters, we're facing down the beginning of February, which means Groundhog Day. Whether you correlate that to one of Bill Murray's finest films or the advice of a woodchuck that was rudely awoken from a wintery slumber to predict the weather for a bunch of old folks dressed to the nines in the middle of the woods, there is no getting around the fact that winter is going to stick around. We're confident in saying that, considering that "Milltown Mel", the local weather-whistlepig of New Jersey, decided that it was better to cross the rainbow bridge than to predict the weather of 2022. Can't say we blame him any!


Then there was the 2022 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. This year Barrett-Jackson had a barnstormer of an auction, with jaw-dropping results. VIN 001 of the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette, the first production 70th anniversary edition, hammered at $3.7 million dollars, with the entire hammer price going to Operation Homefront. Music artist Pitbull was on hand to help auction off a custom 2022 Karma GS-6 EV for half a million dollars, and by the end of the day there were nine more million-dollar sales that included a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing, a 1967 Shelby Cobra 427, and a 2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 that had been tuned by Brabus. In total, 1,867 vehicles sold for over $203.2 million dollars, with a 100% sell rate and over 140 world-record sales achieved.


Whether you consider either of those points to be good or bad news, they will both shine compared to the review of the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke" episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard" they have on deck. We won't spoil their review, but suffice it to say that it isn't every day that the entire panel struggles to find a positive thing to say. The episode is one of the later ones, from late 1984. But maybe the weather has something to do with that...

You can listen to the latest episode of The Kibbe And Friends Podcast by clicking the link below!



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