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Held at the Roaring 20's Auto Club at 7400 Grand Ave., the 33rd Annual Classic Car Auction featured more than 80 cars and trucks ranging from a 1913 Buick to a 1931 Ford Model A and a 1954 Corvette, some just partially restored and some fully done. The auction also featured the sale of a 1959 Ford F-100 four-wheel drive with all of the proceeds — $1,600 — from the sale donated to the Billings Food Bank.
Classic car collector John Schwichtenberg, of Billings, sold a 1982 Buick Riviera convertible Saturday, one of only 220 manufactured and maybe one of only 25 survivors, he said.
“I like ‘em all, but you can’t keep ‘em all,” Schwichtenberg said. "That's the trouble."
He has a collection of nearly 20 classic cars and although he lost one in his collection Saturday, he added a 1939 Buick four-door sedan with only 23,000 original miles. He purchased the car at the auctioned price of $4,800 — a price Schwichtenberg said was a steal.
“These automobiles cannot be replaced,” Schwichtenberg said. “So much of the equipment and parts have been scrapped throughout the years that when I find these old cars intact, I have a huge appreciation for them.”
Schwichtenberg said he started collecting cars right out of high school in 1975 when he worked as a mechanic. The first car he sold at the Roaring 20's auction was a ’67 Chevrolet Impala. The one car in his collection he doesn’t think he’ll ever let go of is a two-door 1963 Cadillac.
Car collector Don Cantrell bought a 1939 Ford Coupe convertible with rumble seats for $200 while he was attending Carroll College in 1963. Four years later, he sold it for double that. Today, that car would be worth $75,000, he said.
"I was hard up for money while I was in college," Cantrell said. "I thought it was really something that I had doubled my money back then. Boy, I wish I hadn't sold that car. But, I'm looking for one just like it."
Gould said there are fewer and fewer classic cars around today, so the collecting of them has become not only about old age, but special interests.
"The nostalgia factor is big," Gould said. "A lot of times, people are looking for the cars they grew up with. Back then, if you had a car, your worked hard for it. And, of course, there weren't as many of the cars and trucks produced then as there are now."
He said cars don't have the special and personal meaning to people like they once did. Today, he said, cars are more of an expectation than a luxury.
"Today, it is common for people to have two-car garages," Gould said. "When you look in the old neighborhoods, the houses don't have original attached garages. Automobiles just weren't a given like they are today."
"I'll be very interested to see 20 to 30 years from now if cars made today have the same desirability," he said. "I really do wonder."
The Show and Shine Car Show will be held Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Many classic cars will be on display, featuring local and regional cars. There is no entry fee to show a car and the public is invited to bring classic cars to the show. Trophies will be awarded by public voting.
