On the weekend Burn The Point was cancelled due to COVID-19, but a component of the tradition of old cars took place on Saturday.
Montana’s ninth annual auction of old cars attracted combined buyers and dealers to billings’ public auction.
About 80 cars were sold at auction in Billings and across the country and even in Israel.
Organizers hold the auction at the MetraPark Expo Center on the same day as the Burn the Point Auto Show, but held it this year at their public Billings car auction site.
“We usually painted in partnership with Burn the Point, but they canceled their parade this year,” said Sherri Steilen, director of Montana’s classic car auction.”So we have all those cars online on our online page months in advance and pay your shipping fees.so that we can continue and conduct our auction. We’ve done a lot of paintings here to prepare our land.and get all our tents and everything we can do to comply with the rules and make sure we can host an event.It’s a small car show in itself, but the opportunity to auction cars and have one if you wish.”
Steilen says something special about old cars.
“It’s exciting, so charming and bright, and there’s anything about them that has a story, each and every one of them,” Steilen said.”And I think that’s what a lot of people like about old cars.Me when I had that or my dad had that or someone had that.You fall in love with a certain kind of cars and when you bring the old vintages, there’s history there.”
The Montana Classic Car Auction will donate to Burn the Point and the Chase Hawks Memorial Association.