Hi Rob,
I attended in my FFR.. My thoughts? Mixed to be honest. There were 50 Perenties for sale, in various states of repair.
I asked one staff member "did all of these drive into the warehouse?". The answer was "yes - everything in here, drove in". (This got me excited whilst looking at some of the "wrecks")
The next day a different staff member asked if he could help me (I was back looking at the wrecks).. I asked the same question - and got a different reply: "see those 12 on that wall - they had to be fork lifted into place"
On the Sunday the staff were moving all of the Perenties out of the warehouse - some drove, some were towed, some had to be moved by forklift (suggesting that they couldn't be pushed or towed)
As for the parts on offer - the good news is that there were a lot of parts on offer, and I think that everything sold.
The bad news (in my eyes) - was that dealers appeared to be snapping up most of the parts. I walked behind two guys with a clip board "yep - let's pay $2K for that lot, yep $3K for that"....
In my eyes it was not set-up for a person to go along and buy one thing - for example, there was a pallet of "major service kits". I think 12 on the pallet, which from memory sold for $1,700.
The good news is - at least the parts are out there, and will eventually be for sale (possibly at inflated prices, who knows?)
The staff said that there were planning another "big" action - same time, next year.
There was a few boxes of free stuff there - which didn't last long!
If I was to go to another auction - I would take a digital copy of the parts book. Sometimes it was difficult trying to work out what parts were on sale.. Most lots had a mix'n'match of seemingly random parts.
I camped with a group of people, who tried to buddy up and buy lot's together - but from memory it didn't work out.
It was Perentie heaven there - looking at the 50 for sale, and all of the lots.. But a lot of people walked away either empty handed OR disappointed..
Here are a few pics:
