Vettes 4 Sale

 

A quick explanation about the auction process via my dad:

"When a car doesn’t reach the reserve amount set by the owner during the few minutes on the auction floor, then they move it outside a put a sticker on it showing the last bid, that way if someone wants to raise the bid they can.  So the price on the window can be called the “Won’t Sell for this amount” od dollars.

 

Now all corvettes have a value, but if the car is rare it has a higher value and if it has a story it is real high.

 

Anybody what to raise the bid?"

"And a Pedigree Car well, this one was bid up to $985,000.

It did not Sell.

The Reserve was set at $1,300,000."

Color Marketing Group

Wednesday, after presenting to the College of Textiles S.T.E.P. students, I took off for Washington DC to visit Color Marketing Group.  I spent a half day on Thursday at their executive office in Alexandria searching through their archival color trend forecasts.  

Color Marketing Group is a nonprofit organization whose goals are to connect color experts from a variety of industries in order to develop current and forecasted color directions.  CMG members are Color Designers involved in the use of color as it applies to the profitable marketing of goods and services.  CMG provides a forum for the exchange of non-competitive information relating to all phases of color marketing: color trends and combinations; design influences; merchandising and sales; and education and industry contacts.

CMG's major focus is to identify the direction of color and design trends.  CMG members then interpret that information into salable colors for manufactured products across all industries.  CMG's primary forecasting opportunities are in the form of Conferences held twice annually, during which CMG members forecast Color Directions(R) for all industries, manufactured products or services.  These Consumer and Contract products include: Action/Recreation, Consumer Goods, Technology, Home, Visual Communications, Transportation, Juvenile Products, Fashion, and environments for Office, Health Care, Retail, Hospitality/Entertainment and Institutional/Public Spaces.  Major presentations, panels and Workshops are held at these Conferences to exchange information on color, marketing and design issues.

This information and more can be found on the CMG Website!

Thanks to my wonderful hosts!

www.colormarketing.org

Bloomington Gold Auction

So my dad's spending the weekend with the likes of Jay Leno and Reggie Jackson and over 5000 Corvettes at the Bloomington Gold Auction in St. Charles, Illinois.  I've asked him to take pictures for me and will hopefully posts some of those.  But the reason for posting now is to encourage you to watch the auction live!  Its available on a variety of cable stations and in a live webcast.  

Check it out at: www.mecum.com

Look for my dad in a light blue shirt and Corvette hat :)

"America's Original Corvette Show"