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The Mullin Collection: Gooding repeats the previous resounding success of 1421 Emerson Avenue.
In Oxnard, a renowned collection of French cars, once housed in the Mullin Museum, hits the auction block. Surpassing estimates, the event rekindles nostalgia and showcases automotive history, with standout Bugattis stealing the show.
Oxnard, California. 1421 Emerson Avenue. This is where the Mullin Museum is located, which is the most important collection of French cars in the world or at least it used to be. On April 26 Peter Mullin's collection went up for auction at Gooding's.
1421 (spelled 14-21) Emerson Avenue is famous for collecting: Otis Chandler, editor of the Los Angeles Times, showed what used to be his museum and his magnificent collection that was dismembered in 2006 in an auction that has gone down in history. Holding the auction, as today for the Mullin collection, was Gooding himself. For those who did not experience it I can say that this auction was epic: An impressive $36 million were achieved (we are talking almost twenty years ago, when a Porsche Carrera GT was $300,000), setting a record for any single-day auction.
