MECUM GLENDALE, ARIZONA

MECUM’S HIT-‘EM-WHERE- they-ain’t strategy in Arizona continues to pay dividends. Visiting State Farm Stadium (where the Cardinals play football) in March, two months on from the madness of Scottsdale Auction week and sufficiently distant both in timing and location, has proved to be a sweet spot. If anything, Mecum has demonstrated that there are still interesting cars to be found for sale after January’s vigorous activity. The indoor display area, on the field where local athletes play football in fall and winter, is daunting and impressive.

Total sales for Mecum’s fourth-annual event hit $66.3 million across four days — one more sales day than last year — driving a 53 percent increase in sales over 2021. For some, that might be the only number that matters. (Even with COVID-induced caution last year, 2021 set record sales for Mecum in Arizona; the Glendale event’s trajectory is only ever-skyward.) Surely a strong online bidder contingency, with some help from TV coverage on Discovery-owned cable channels, helped those strong