In Wheel Time Podcast: Your Go-To Automotive Talk Show Aug 28, 2025

Automotive Auction Insights: A Look at Klairmont's Collection

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Thank you, Mr. Chief Engineer, David Ainsley, and I am Don Armstrong, so glad that you could join us today. Let's see if we can get him in here, Matt Avery, co-host Meekam in the morning. Matt, good morning.

Good morning, guys. How are you doing?

Well, very well. Thank you. It's good to have you with us, and we appreciate you taking the time out of your Saturday. I assume that your weekdays are kind of like hours where, you know, under the pressure, under the gun, and we're just kind of adding to it.

They are busy, guys, but you know, it's exciting to work around collector cars and trucks and motorcycles, so I will say many days, if not all of them, it doesn't feel like work, but it is a ride.

Well, yeah, and, you know, congratulations, apparently a very successful person. You've been in the broadcasting field for quite some time, but your roots are really in automotive, right?

Yeah, 100%. I've been a full-time automotive journalist and content creator for coming up on 20 years now.

You're not old enough. I'm not old enough. There's a very special filter I'm using right now on this webcam that makes me look a lot younger.

But I got my roots. We all need that. Let's get back to the filter. You perfected. Send it down here, Horace.

I will. I will. It's proprietary suit and super secret technology. But before I went into content and entertainment and automotive storytelling, I did get my start through the high school

botek program, and then I worked for several years as a trained technician for Mercedes-Benz and BMW. So, yeah, I definitely have a place in my heart for mechanics and just understanding how these vehicles run and go. That also gets me excited.

Where did you get the passion from? I would say a lot of it as a young kid like most of us, you know, would walk around with toy cars in my pockets and be distracted during school classes and different things like that.

And just always wanted to be a part of automobiles, but I specifically guys wanted to be a part of exciting automobiles and car culture.

And I definitely found that with me come options because we bring we bring the excitement. Yeah, no doubt. I obviously, you know, we've been connected with you guys for a number of years and big fans of me come auction.

And so how long have you been with me come now? So I've been on staff for just over seven years now. Got you. And I assume that all of the things that you have done in the past

really kind of got your foot in the door with me come. Yeah, 100% it all has contributed to what I do on a daily basis with me come auctions.

After I left the dealership, I went to film school in Baltimore, got a film degree and then I started working with Motor Week, the PBS or the PBS show with John Davis.

John Davis, yeah, you know, I met him in Austin at an automotive event, very nice guy, but my God, he's so stiff, man.

Wow, dude, lighten up. Take the jacket off. It's okay. Take the Jets. It's on brand. So, but I got my start with Motor Week, which was a great foundation to, you know, to really bring in the formal repair technology training with the film story.

Telling technique Motor Week was a great opportunity to bring that together. And then over my years, I've also worked with cars.com as a executive producer overseeing some of their content.

I've written for all the major magazines, Hot Rod, all the all those and even had my own column in the Chicago Daily Hero for 10 years right about cars.

So, I've been around being able to see a lot and it really has contributed to the success that I had at me.

So, here you are at this point in your life, live in the high life, bud.

Well, that's what I would say anyway. You could say that. No, it's very thankful, very blessed, really enjoy what we do at me come.

And I'm just really excited to be a part of it, you know, just to be one of the faces of the brand and to be out front meeting our customers and telling the stories behind these great vehicles.

It's very exciting. Well, I understand that you guys have got a great big auction coming up that I think that every car guy would be interested in.

It's the Larry Claimons Museum. Tell us about that. Yeah, so guys, that's coming up. That's our next auction now with Monterey in the rear view mirror.

We are focused on the big auction area. So, for those who are unaware, Larry Flaremont was a big collector in the Chicago area.

And over his years, he amassed a very large collection of all kinds of unique pieces. It's cars, it's trucks, it's motorcycles, there's some race cars.

He's got so many great pieces of what we call me found road art, the neon signs, the memorabilia, the toy cars, the pedal cars.

It is really an impressive place. And over the last couple of years, it's been really functioning as a museum and welcoming people in and now the foundation has decided to go a different direction.

And so they're they're going to be selling off the his collections called Larry's legacy and it will be at the Claremont collections museum in Chicago later in September, really looking forward to it.

Man, I'm looking at a lot of Jeep stuff here, some custom cars, some race cars. I mean, it's all over the place.

It really is. You know, Larry had a eye for everything. There's a lot of quirky things and I just mean I was just there just a couple days ago, guys, and I was walked around and I I saw stuff that I had not seen before.

You know, if you really liked the unusual, he's got a lot of the standard, you know, collector cars, he's got a muscle room.

The museum staff has broken it up into different displays. And of course, there's a muscle room with some good 1960s and 70s muscle. There's a Jeep room.

But as you walk through it, you really do see a lot of very unusual, a lot of unique things. There's a whole room of micro cars and not just the BMW I said us that everyone knows in the measurements. There's a lot of unusual stuff.

It's going to be exciting to see the next chapter for these pieces and where they go. And one of the standouts is, of course, the golden set here or two man, talk about a showstopper.

Well, I want to so this auction is going to be nothing but this collection. Is that correct?

Correct. Correct. So, yep, so this is a special addition to our lineup of auctions where this happens. This is not out of the ordinary.

This is something that meek of auctions were able to do is a collection of this size will come on site and hold a standalone auction in the course of our calendar.

And so yeah, so it's pretty, but it is all of the Larry's legacy items that will be selling this weekend in September.

It's got to be close to at least a thousand items. I'm looking at here just in these photographs. Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. So our team has curated 275 of his vehicles and then a thousand plus pieces of road art.

Just because again, I think that's an equal draw to a lot of collectors is going to be not just the wheel of the vehicles.

But again, he just his displays are just world class the way that the museum put together.

It's very impressive when you go in and again, just because it's not just about having the vehicles, guys.

You know, the team there at the at the museum and the foundation really wanted to curate a special space and it through lighting through the dioramas.

And so for road art collectors, this is a must attend event.

So how does this differ from a regular like a Houston meek of auction?

Yeah, it's a great question.

So not a lot in terms of obviously our team has come in and it's preparing the items for sale.

Larry's legacy has its own blaming page on our website, of course.

It's a little bit modified only because as opposed to like the Houston auction right where we have a little bit more space to work with.

We won't be able to have the cars cross the block per se.

You know, and so I will say it'll be modified a little bit just because of the space constraints.

But other than that, I mean, all of the items are selling and so it's the same protocol that we have for our events.

Registered bidders will be on site through the weekend of the sale and will be taking bids in person and then of course online and over the phone.

So I will say a lot's different from kind of our usual line of options.

But then again, a lot, a lot's to say.

And that's really what caught my attention whenever I saw this.

And I called David about it is that this is really a museum.

I mean, it's his collection, but it is a museum.

And it's an opportunity for somebody like us down here in Houston to actually bid on museum quality items, whether it's the car or the memorabilia, the signs.

And you know, there's just so much there that's it's it's mind boggling that how much stuff is there.

And the fact that I could get online and bid on it if I get registered and get set up.

100% yeah, absolutely.

And you know, one of the other nice things too is you identified about purchasing a collector vehicle or a piece of road art out of a museum or collection.

And you know, that our team will carry at the auctions is that typically, you know, it indicates a little bit more of a special care of the vehicle just because again, like these vehicles.

The museum staff made sure that all of them were functioning or at least, you know, I'm saying to a very high level, they've been kept indoors and climate control.

So that also is nice, you know, when you when you can feel confident or more confident purchasing a vehicle that is from a museum like this, it's kind of neat.

And yeah, it also kind of indicates it's got a little bit of a story to it.

You know, it's it's neat to add something to your collection that you can say, hey, it was on display in a Claremont collection out of the museum.

It adds a little bit of intrigue to the piece.

Well, me personally, I like to be I'm a hands on guy, I want to go there. I want to see the car.

I want to be able to look at the car.

I want to have the whole experience that you have at a car auction and for nobody that has been there.

It is very unique. You've got to admit that.

It's really a necomon.

And of course, the professionalism that me come brings with it.

But let me ask you, so if I want to attend, how do I do that?

So great question. And we're getting that question a lot, obviously, as we get closer to the auction.

So currently the museum is not open with its hours just as we are getting ready for the auction.

Of course, you know, it's just that we need we need to limit the access as we get ready.

So for people who want to come out, we're doing a final public auction preview and a final opportunity to tour the museum on September 13th and 14th.

That's a Saturday and a Sunday.

And it'll be open to anyone who's interested with the donation to the museum foundation.

You can find out more information online, but basically just their regular mission just because that is all up the foundation the museum is set up for.

So registered bidders who have signed up will be admitted those days at no charge.

So again, we do want we do want the public to be able to have a chance to experience it.

But of course, we also want our bidders that are going to be hands on like you said, we want them to be able to see the items.

So that's a good opportunity for both of that to happen.

Friday, September 19th is a final preview day.

That's going to be exclusively for registered bidders.

And then on Saturday and Sunday, September 20 and 21st, those will be the live auction days.

And those will only be open to registered bidders just because we do have limited space and parking.

So all those details for listeners and viewers, you had a hard time catching it.

And you can find that at mechem.com.

Go to the Larry's Legacy page and you can get those details because it will be special.

Whether you're bidding or whether you want to come out, bring the family or friends, it's worth it's worth the trip to experience.

Will there be a catalog that goes with the auction?

That's a good question. All of the items will be online.

I do not believe we're doing a catalog for this particular one.

I think all the contents on on the mechem.com.

Is this a no reserve auction?

Yeah, his collection of selling at no reserve.

And you can see that by going again to the consignment page.

And you look for that yellow tag that says no reserve.

And so yeah, so it will be selling and it's been all go to a new home.

Now, so let's say Don just bought a car from there from the museum.

How long does he have to remove the vehicle from the museum?

Yeah, so that's a good question.

So I will say some of that we're still working through just because ideally, you know, if you've acquired the vehicle, you know, the sooner the better.

But again, we'll be posting some of those more logistic questions on mechem.com for the full details.

And of course, mechem auto transport is a great resource to get some of those vehicles.

If you need help getting them home, that's a good option to let our professional transport team handle that more information.

Of course, this is online and a transport.

Gotcha.

How much does it cost to register?

So to register to bid if you go to bechem.com and then if you go to auctions and then to the register to buy excuse me, if you register to bid, I'm just making sure I give you the most up to date.

We have the in person, the internet and the telephone.

And I'm looking for it.

I'll just encourage your listeners to go over to the mechem.com and the register to bid.

I just I don't want to say a wrong number on air and have people but but yeah, so all of our millions of visitors that follow us every week.

We're going to have them here.

I give you a personal phone call on your cell phone and blow it up.

There you go.

I like it.

Blow it up.

Yes.

Get them all there.

All right.

You know what?

I like that because that gave me some time.

So for Larry's legacy.

So for internet only, it'll be a hundred dollars register as a bidder and then this standard bidding pass lot for the live bidding experience is $200 for the Larry's legacy.

So it really kind of goes hand in hand with it like a Houston auction.

As far as prices concerned, I mean, this isn't something out of the world.

Plus, you're going to have to stay at the Ritz Carlton in downtown Chicago and you know, you're going to have to spin a little of open up that wallet brother and you know, spill it out there for us.

If you're looking for museum quality items, I mean, you kind of expect to pay a little bit more for that quality and kind of the things that go with it.

You're going to be paying more for it because this is one of those auctions that's going to draw some heavy bidders.

Yeah.

There's going to be money in the room.

Like I just find the pictures that I saw on our slide presentation here.

I'm going, oh my God, he's got one of those.

Yeah, and it's going to be one of those kind of auctions, I think, but that's not to say that there won't be some bargains in there as well.

Absolutely, you know, with the collection of this size, it's it's going to be all over the map.

I mean, there will be some star some star power there with some of the bigger attractions, but just because there's so many pieces there that there will be some good opportunities for.

For some deals, perhaps I'll even say you know, just because of there's there's a lot of smaller items to as part of his road art.

And I will I'll say I even have my eye on a couple of things guys.

I'm going to get registered a bit and make sure I've I've got my hand in the action just because there's some heat stuff there.

No doubt about it.

Well, Matt, it's great to talk to you.

Are you going to be down here in Houston for the spring auction here with me.

Yeah, what do you miss it? Always look forward to to come out to Houston. I love how that area.

They really love their trucks.

Yes, yes.

Yeah, we do.

Yeah, there's no doubt about that.

And I know it's cliche, but I'm going to say it seems like the bigger the better when it comes to those big old classic trucks.

Listen here, you're going to want to move here after the next auction.

I can tell it by the sound of your voice.

Matt, it's great to talk to you, my friend. You take care of yourself.

Hopefully we'll have a chat here for the Houston auction coming up and we'll of course got to get all the latest on this auction once it's completed.

I look forward to it. Thanks guys. It was great to be here.

Thank you.

All right.

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No.

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What's it going to say?

I was going to say, I got a granddaughter just looking car shopping again and I've been going through marketplace on Facebook.

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Toyota needs to rethink calling it a Corolla though.

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I know.

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About this episode

Dive into the fascinating world of automotive auctions with insights from Matt Avery of Mecham Auctions as he discusses the upcoming auction of Larry Klairmont's impressive collection. This episode highlights the unique aspects of the collection, including rare cars, motorcycles, and memorabilia, all curated in a museum-like setting. Matt shares his journey in the automotive industry, his passion for cars, and what makes this auction special, including the opportunity for bidders to acquire museum-quality items. Learn about the auction details, registration process, and what to expect at this exciting event.

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Original notes

Automotive passion takes center stage as we welcome Matt Avery, co-host of Mecum in the Morning and veteran automotive journalist with nearly two decades of industry experience. Matt shares his fascinating journey from luxury car technician to content creator, explaining how his mechanical background and storytelling skills perfectly positioned him for his current role at Mecum Auctions.

The conversation shifts to an exciting upcoming event - Larry's Legacy auction featuring the extensive collection of Chicago collector Larry Klairmont. This museum-quality assemblage includes 275 vehicles and over 1,000 pieces of memorabilia, all selling at no reserve. Matt walks us through the diverse collection spanning muscle cars, Jeeps, microcars, and rare showpieces like the Golden Sahara II, while providing essential details for potential bidders about preview days and registration.

We then explore the evolving landscape of car buying, examining how retail giant Costco has entered the automotive market with pre-arranged dealer pricing. The segment raises thought-provoking questions about alternative purchasing methods including Facebook Marketplace and potential Amazon car sales, highlighting both benefits and potential pitfalls for consumers navigating these non-traditional paths.

The episode concludes with Don's exhilarating review of the 2025 Toyota GR Corolla - a vehicle that shares little more than a name with its mainstream counterpart. This Gazoo Racing creation delivers 300 horsepower from a modest 1.6-liter engine, paired with race-inspired handling and distinctive styling that's creating a genuine cult following among automotive enthusiasts. At $50,433 as tested, it stands as a compelling alternative to competitors like the Volkswagen Golf R and Honda Civic Type R.

Whether you're a collector car aficionado, interested in new purchasing methods, or simply appreciate performance vehicles that punch above their weight class, this episode delivers insights that will enhance your automotive knowledge and feed your passion for exceptional machines.

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