‘Cars, cars, cars, cars, cars, cars, Jaywalking, cars, cars.’ (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

The Second Annual Barrett-Jackson Collecter Car Auction wrapped at Mandlay Bay this weekend, with Lee Iacocca’s silver 45th Anniversary Edition Mustang selling for $320,000 — which included dinner with Iacocca. That is $320,000. For a Mustang. MSRP on that bad boy is around $21,000. So, someone overpaid for the car the difference of, oh a Ferrari 612. Ferrari, or dinner with Lee Iacocca? Ferrari? Or dinner with Lee Iacocca?

The ‘Stang is No. 5 of only 45, and features a supercharged 550 horsepower engine from the Father of the Mustang.

The other icon of the Mustang, Carol Shelby, was at the auction where a 2007 Shelby GT500 Super Snake Purduhomme Edition went for $302,000. A ’65 Shelby roadster topped sales at $440,000 — a gorgeous blue steel piece of sleek-ery that you’d have to chain down to keep it from racing itself off to Le Mans.

A man who loves automobiles more than comedy, Jay Leno, signed autographs for fans while he auctioned off his 2009 VMax Star to benefit Bailey’s Cafe. Leno included a guitar and a GPS and induced a bidding war between Roger Frank of Scotts Bluff, Neb., and his son, 12-year-old Jackson, before Milton Verret of Milton, Texas, landed the bike for $120,000.

The auction also saw John Schneider (What, was Tom Wopat busy?) drive the last real General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard to the auction before it sold for $258,000 to a mysterious, corpulent gentleman in an all-white suit and white hat cackling about how he finally “got them Duke boys.”

The 1961 Jaguar One “Ol’ Yaller VIII,” which appeared in the Elvis flick Viva Las Vegas and built by Max Balchowsky, fetched $198,000. It probably would’ve gone for more if someone could have confirmed that Elvis banged Ann-Margaret on the hood.

By Jason Scavone

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