Central Car Auctions

[Pastor Of Muppets]

Surprised to see CCA still not allowing the public to attend sales, only traders, I take it traders are exempt from covid, or is this maybe just
an excuse now because they don't want the public in ?, it appears this is the norm now, certainly with BCA and Mannheim it's trade only, has CCA went the same route?

Some good times were had in the past buying motors, used to go to Scotland St every friday night full of anticipation and wondering what was going to be there, maybe a Miami blue 306 Dturbo, a CRX VT, an EG VTi or maybe a FC RX7. I remember buying an Integra type R with a turbo at Baillieston
for seriously cheap money, full of anxiety wondering if it was a pig in a poke, the reality was anything but, it was properly sorted with the best
of stuff, fortunes had been spent on it, god knows why it was there but that was some car.

Any tales of cars bought or sold at CCA folks?

[r.s.logan]

The car auctions down the old meat market in the Gallowgate was where the real " characters " in the second hand car motor trade hung about and also certain " business men " as they liked to be known .Quite often a car would be pushed in and described as not running for the buyer to then find the engine in bits in the boot .But that is very mild compared to a lot of the wheeling and dealing that went on in those days