Richard Rawlings, a Dallas car customizer known for his starring role in Discovery Channel’s reality show Fast N’ Loud, collected over $1 million after selling 28 vehicles in his vintage car collection.
His no-reserve auction that began Sept. 7 was intended to liquidate cars, trucks and motorcycles that took him over 10 years to collect. Rawlings partnered with Bring a Trailer, a collector and enthusiast vehicle auction platform, and the auction was live streamed on GasMonkeyGarage.com.
His Ford Model T Custom “King T” built by hotrod legend Gene Winfield was the hardest for Rawlings to let go. Sold for $75,500, the car won the 1964 Oakland Roadster Show’s Most Beautiful Roadster Award and later was memorialized as both a Hot Wheels car and an MPC model kit. It went for half of what Rawlings valued it at, he said, but “averaging out” is a part of the game.
“That guy got a very good deal, but it’s going to a really cool collection and an avid Hot Wheel collector,” Rawlings told The Dallas Morning News on Monday. “I’m excited about that.”
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