JLA Treasures can offer your modern, classic or antique vehicle as part of the estate or moving sale. In the alternative, we can also liquidate modern cars online nationally via the Manheim dealer network (only available to licensed dealers), and offer classic and antique cars through online or regional classic car auctions. Either way, we maximize the net to the client.
In addition to full estate sale services, we also specialize in the sale of estate and unwanted vehicles. Whether or not you are holding an estate sale with us, we can assist with pricing, marketing, and selling vehicles on your behalf. This service is available as a standalone option, no estate sale required. Let us take the hassle out of selling cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs, and more.
Vehicles We Have Sold
All of these cars were either appraised, or bought and sold for clients, by Gary of JLA Treasures.
Our Truck and Trailer
Our 2023 Compass 20-ft enclosed car hauling trailer, with an electric winch, which can be used to move client vehicles.
Gary Matesic - Automotive Expert
- Interned at Dart Chevrolet-Cadillac, Greenville, PA, in 1973, working in the sales, parts, new car prep, and service (as a technician) departments
- Owned a Texas-licensed Independent Automobile Dealership from 1996-2005, under General Distinguishing Number P45782. Evaluated over 10,000 cars and light trucks; bought and sold more than 1,000 of those and others, such as consignments for clients and estates.
- Authorized dealer auction representative (Manheim and AuctionACCESS), 1996 - present.
- Testifying expert in Texas and Federal courts since 1999.
- Represented collector cars on the buy and sell sides at Bonhams, Worldwide, and Mecum auctions.
- Appraised a collection of 87 vehicles, including American classics (cars and trucks), late-model exotics, and ultra-luxury autos (appraisal completed September 2015). Values were upheld following testimony at a 2016 civil trial in State District Court.
- Appraised a collection of 18 vintage and late-model collector vehicles owned by a member of a prominent Texas family for Federal Estate Tax purposes, May 2016.
- Arranged for and supervised the reconditioning and sale of 79 collector vehicles at auction, April 2018 (auction estimate was $1.7 million; the collection brought $1.93 million across the block).
- Appraised a collection of 27 antique, classic and late-model (from model years 1923-2012) cars, trucks and trailers for equitable distribution and sale purposes, December 2021-April 2022.
- Quoted in a 1983 article on automobile repair together with noted professional IndyCar driver Lyn St. James, by the Houston Chronicle.
- Was the subject of a 2001 feature business article in the Plano Star Courier.
- Invited to display at the 1989 Aston Martin Owners Club International Festival, on the lawn at the Quail Lodge, Monterey, CA (in conjunction with the Pebble Beach Concours and the Monterey Historic Car Races)
- Certified National Show Judge for the Buick Club of America
- Former Member of the National Corvette Restorers Society (Top Flight awardee)
- Member of the Red River Triumph Club and the Late Great Chevys of Dallas
- Former member of the Aston Martin Owners Club International, the Pontiac-Oakland Club International, the Lone Star Performance Buick Club, the Mercedes-Benz Owners Club, the Dallas Mopar Club, and the Lone Star Corvette Club
- Invited to participate in the inaugural Concours d'Elegance of Texas, May 2012.
- Invited to display at Back to the Bricks, Flint, MI, August 2015 (one of only 12 special invitees out of nearly 3,000 cars in attendance)
- Invited to display and enter the 2019 Detroit Autorama (won 2nd place in class)
- Invited to display at the 2023 Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals (MCACN), Rosemont, IL
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