What does the green, amber or red light mean?

The light sets the terms of sale, not the quality. Green means nothing was announced and the lot is arbitrable on material misdescription. Amber means specific defects were announced and only those are arbitrable. Red means as-is, with no arbitration on anything.

How is the buyer’s premium calculated?

Eight per cent of the hammer price with a $500 minimum and a $3,500 cap, plus a $149 documentation fee. Illustrative figures for a demonstration.

What happens when a reserve is not met?

The lot does not sell and is recorded as a no-sale. The high bid is published alongside it, and the consignor may re-enter the vehicle in a later sale.

Lane 4 · Grand Prairie, TX

Every car crosses
under the light

Green, amber or red is announced before the hammer, not argued after it. It is not a quality score — it is a statement about what you can dispute.

On the block now

Green light — nothing announced.

We inspected it and found nothing that changes what you are buying. That is a claim we have to stand behind, so a green-light lot is arbitrable if it turns out to have been materially misdescribed.

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2 lots live, 4 catalogued for the next sale. Registration closes 6 p.m. the evening before.

See the run list How bidding works

Sample data. Lots, grades, estimates, hammer prices and bid counts on this site are illustrative copy written for a design demonstration. Photographs are licensed stock images and are not the vehicles described.

RUN 01

Crossing this week

2 live, 4 upcoming

4 lanes, every Thursday from 9:00 a.m. CT. Every lot below carries a condition report, an announcement sheet and a light, published eight days before it runs.

Live now

LOT 104 · LANE 1

1962 Porsche 356 B T6 Coupe

61,205 mi actualRearWDClean title

Green light

Current bid $88,500Grade 4.2No reserve

Live now

Front view of a dark Jeep Wrangler parked on a forest trail at dusk

LOT 130 · LANE 3

2019 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon

51,620 mi actualFourWDClean title

Amber light

Current bid $29,750Grade 3.7Reserve

Upcoming

A white Land Rover Defender parked on a leaf-covered forest track in autumn

LOT 108 · LANE 2

1997 Land Rover Defender 90 Station Wagon

141,980 mi actualFourWDClean title

Amber light

Estimate $34,000 – $46,000Grade 3.4Reserve

All 12 lots Sale calendar

RUN 02

The mechanism

Four lights, and only one of them is about condition

Green

Nothing announced. Arbitrable on material misdescription. The most exposed position for the house, which is why it is not handed out to cars we could not inspect properly.

Amber

Specific things announced, and those specific things are what you can come back on — plus anything our standard says should have been announced and was not.

Red

As-is. Nothing is arbitrable, including things nobody wrote down. Cheap for a reason.

Blue

Paperwork, not condition. The title is not in the room, so funds are held and the vehicle does not move until it is recorded. It runs alongside the other three.

Where the light comes from

An inspector who did not consign the vehicle and does not sell it writes the condition report. Anything in it that changes what a buyer is buying becomes an announcement, and the announcements set the light.

That order matters. The light is an output of the inspection, not a label chosen beforehand and then justified.

Light	You can dispute	Window
Green	Material misdescription	48h / 7d
Amber	The announcements only	48h / 7d
Red	Nothing	—

Read the arbitration rules

RUN 03

The condition report

The grade is a summary. The diagram is the report.

Forty to ninety minutes on a lift, in the same order, on every vehicle in the sale — whether it is worth four thousand dollars or a hundred and forty.

1Intake, before anything is cleanedPhotographed on arrival. Odometer read and photographed in the same pass.
2Paint depth, panel by panelEvery reading outside the expected band recorded, not summarised.
3What the inspector could not seeUnderseal, fresh paint, a car that would not start. Named as a limitation rather than graded around.

The grading scale How the inspection runs

A vehicle raised on a two-post lift in a workshop while a technician inspects the underside

3.4of 5.0 — an illustrative grade

Structure, mechanical condition, cosmetics and the completeness of the file, in one number.

RUN 04

Money

Work backwards from what you can spend

Your budget is the hammer price plus the premium plus the fees plus getting the thing home. Here is the arithmetic, live.

Buyer's premium calculator

Hammer price8% of hammer, $500 minimum, $3,500 cap.

Hammer

$24,000

Buyer's premium

$1,920

Documentation fee

$149

Effective rate

8.0%

You pay$26,069

Transport and storage are not included and are not charged by us. Figures are illustrative sample data.

Bid increments

Price band	Increment
$0 – $5,000	$100
$5,000 – $20,000	$250
$20,000 – $50,000	$500
$50,000 – $100,000	$1,000
$100,000 and above	$2,500

The auctioneer may take a smaller increment to close a lot. Never a larger one.

Reserve, no reserve, proxy

Reserve: A floor the consignor set. Below it, the lot does not sell and is published as a no-sale with its high bid.
No reserve: It sells on the day to the highest bid, whatever that bid is. Nothing beneath it.
Proxy bid: You give a maximum. The system bids in the published increments and stops the moment it is winning, so you often pay less. Your maximum is never shown to the room.

All the rules

RUN 05

Last sale · Thursday, September 3, 2026

Results, including the ones that did not sell

A results page that only shows the sales is not a results page. No-sales are published with their high bid.

Lot	Vehicle	Light	Grade	Outcome	Result
101	1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 78,410 mi · Clean title	amber	3.8	Sold	$61,000 + $3,500 premium
112	1960 Ford F-100 Custom Cab 42,118 mi · Clean title	amber	3.1	Sold	$23,500 + $1,880 premium
134	1972 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible 54,302 mi · Clean title	green	4.4	Sold	$78,000 + $3,500 premium
139	1971 Morris Mini Cooper S 38,450 mi · Clean title	amber	3.3	Sold	$19,250 + $1,540 premium
121	1989 BMW 325i E30 168,770 mi · Clean title	amber	3.6	Reserve not met	$18,400 high bid
143	1988 Mercedes-Benz 300 SE W126 187,215 mi · Title absent title	amber	3.5	Reserve not met	$9,800 high bid

Full results

RUN 06

Selling

Six steps from your driveway to the block

STEP 01

Entry

Send details and photographs. We say within two business days whether it fits a sale.

STEP 02

Intake

Deliver by the Monday before. It is inspected here — a consignor report is not used in place of ours.

STEP 03

Reserve

You set it, or run without one. We will tell you what we think the room will do. The number is still yours.

STEP 04

Catalogue

Lot number, lane, condition report and announcement sheet, published eight days out.

STEP 05

Sale day

It crosses under its light. If it sells you hear the same day.

STEP 06

Settlement

Funds released once the buyer has paid in full and the title is recorded.

Consign a car Fees and timeline

In the lane

What people say about the disclosure

“The announcement sheet said the block was not original before I asked. That is the whole reason I bid at all.”

Buyer, 4 lots this season · Fort Worth

1 of 5Illustrative sample copy — not customers, not reviews.

Next sale · Thursday, September 17, 2026

Registration closes at 6 p.m. the day before

Identity check, bidding limit, and you are in the room. On this demonstration the form shows a confirmation and stores nothing.