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Barrett-Jackson breaks sales, attendance records

Jan 21, 2013, 2:10 PM | Updated: 2:10 pm

Several records were broken at the Barrett-Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale over the past weekend.

A record 310,000 attendees saw two world record sales: a 1947 Talbot-Lago T-26 Grand Sport that sold for $2.035 million and a 1956 Chrysler Diablo Concept Convertible that sold for $1.375 million.

In total, 1,343 cars were sold for a total of $108,766,069, a 17 percent increase over 2012. Of those, the sale of 21 vehicles raised $5 million for charity.

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Barrett-Jackson breaks sales, attendance records