Mecum Auctions‘ inaugural Mecum Nashville collector car auction takes place September 22-26, 2026, at Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tennessee. It marks the auction house’s first-ever event in Music City.
This five-day Mecum Auctions sale is projected to bring more than 1,700 collector cars, trucks and motorcycles across the block. Organizers expect the event to draw thousands of enthusiasts to Middle Tennessee, calling it a landmark addition to the collector-car auction calendar.
Mecum Nashville 2026: Auction Overview and Notable Consignments
The headline draw for the Mecum Nashville auction is a curated selection from the Roush Automotive Collection. These vehicles are being offered publicly for the first time, timed to Roush Industries’ 50th-anniversary celebration.
Assembled over 38 years by motorsports icon Jack Roush at his Detroit-area facility, the collection now houses more than 150 vehicles. The consigned group includes vintage race cars, one-offs and championship-winning competition machines alongside classic American muscle cars.
Standouts from the Roush lineup include the 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra “Nobody’s Fool” IMSA road racer, chassis No. 23. It scored a GTS-1 class win and third overall at the 1995 Rolex 24 at Daytona with drivers Paul Newman, Tommy Kendall and Mark Martin. Also crossing the block is a 1997 Mustang Cobra Trans-Am car that won a record 11 races en route to Kendall’s 1997 SCCA championship.
NASCAR trucks and stock cars tied to Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards and the late Greg Biffle round out the Roush offerings at this Mecum Auctions event. Proceeds from one of Biffle’s former race cars will benefit the Biffle Family Legacy Impact Fund.
Mecum Nashville 2026 also features the Joe Bradtke Collection. It brings four Tri-Five Chevrolet favorites, a run of muscle car icons and even a 1920s-era Ford Model T Runabout to the auction block, alongside a separate consignment from Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage.
Across the week, bidders at this collector car auction can expect everything from vintage Corvettes and hot rods to motorcycles and automobilia.
Among the deepest and most closely watched threads running through the Mecum Nashville docket is a concentration of top-tier 1969 muscle cars. Two 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429s and two 1969 Plymouth Hemi Road Runners headline the group, each with its own distinct story of homologation racing, restoration and provenance.
1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429: Two Fastbacks, Two Very Different Stories
Ford built the Boss 429 for one reason: to legalize its semi-hemispherical 429 “Boss 9” engine for NASCAR competition. The massive powerplant was shoehorned into Mustang fastbacks via a specialized modification process performed by Kar Kraft rather than on Ford’s regular assembly line.
Only about 1,359 examples were built across the 1969 and 1970 model years. That scarcity makes every Boss 429 Mustang a historically important piece of Ford’s muscle car era.
The first of the pair crossing the block at Mecum Nashville on Saturday, September 26 (Lot V535.1) is KK No. 1272, one of approximately 850 Boss 429s produced for 1969. It was originally sold new through Jerry Alderman Ford Sales of Indianapolis.
This Boss 429 Mustang fastback underwent a concours-grade, two-year restoration completed in 2018 by specialist Drew Alcazar. It retains its matching-numbers 429/375-hp S-code V8 with aluminum intake and a Holley 735-cfm four-barrel carburetor, paired with a close-ratio four-speed manual transmission.
Finished in Wimbledon White over a black Clarion knit vinyl interior, the car features the woodgrain-trimmed Interior Décor Group, hi-back bucket seats and a center console. It comes backed by a deep paper trail, including its original window sticker, build sheet, owner’s manual, restoration photos and a Deluxe Marti Report.
The second Boss 429 Mustang (Lot V448), KK No. 1429, carries an entirely different pedigree. This is offered from the Roush Automotive Collection, purchased by Jack Roush himself in 1971 for $1,100 as a blown-up drag car. He kept it in his personal collection for 55 years.
Rather than restoring it to factory-original specification, Roush installed one of his own Pro Stock-derived engines. The 460-cubic-inch short-block V8 features a 0.5-inch stroke, mechanical-lift camshaft and a 3.20:1 ring-and-pinion rear end sourced from his NASCAR program.
That makes this Royal Maroon fastback a uniquely personal artifact of Roush’s own engineering evolution, rather than a numbers-matching restoration. It’s reportedly one of Jack Roush’s own favorites among the more than 150 vehicles in his collection.
The car retains its scooped hood, front spoiler, wood-rimmed steering wheel and Philco pushbutton radio. It represents a rare chance to own a piece of Roush racing history rather than a stock Boss 9.
1969 Plymouth Hemi Road Runner: Two Rare Four-Speeds Anchor the Mopar Field
Plymouth’s Road Runner was named Motor Trend’s 1969 Car of the Year. The top-spec version – fitted with the 426 Hemi and a four-speed manual – is among the rarest and most coveted Mopars of the muscle car era, with just 234 four-speed Hemi Road Runners built that year.
Mecum Nashville 2026 will offer two of them on consecutive days.
Crossing the block Friday, September 25 (Lot V295) is VIN RM23J9G190426, a 1969 Plymouth Hemi Road Runner Hardtop restored by Julius Steuer. It’s finished in the rare code-99 special-order Omaha Orange over a black vinyl top, with a black split-bench interior.
The car retains its A833 Hemi four-speed transmission, Air Grabber hood with performance hood paint, Hurst shifter, “Beep Beep” horn, 4.10 Dana rear axle and original fender tag. It also has power steering and power brakes.
The second Hemi Road Runner (Lot N483), VIN RM21J9G151391, crosses the Mecum Auctions block the following day, Saturday, September 26. It’s finished in black over a black interior, with 32,415 miles showing on its odometer.
Restored in 2015, this example carries the desirable A34 Super Track Pak and a matching-numbers 426/425-hp Hemi V8 with dual four-barrel carburetors. It also has a matching A833 four-speed transmission, Dana 60 rear end with 4.10 gears and an Air Grabber hood.
It comes with a Dave Wise Vehicle Inspection Report along with its original fender tag. That adds an extra layer of documented authenticity for prospective bidders at this collector car auction.
Both 1969 Plymouth Hemi Road Runner examples share the essential Hemi Road Runner recipe: the 426/425-hp Street Hemi, A833 four-speed and Super Track Pak underpinnings that made the model a genuine factory drag-strip weapon. Their differing colors, body styles and documentation trails give bidders at Mecum Nashville two distinct entry points into one of the most sought-after four-speed Mopars ever built.
Why Mecum Nashville 2026 Matters for Collector Car Buyers
With the Roush, Bradtke and Johnson consignments driving broad interest, Mecum Nashville is shaping up as one of the most consequential new stops on the 2026 collector car auction calendar. A concentrated run of numbers-matching Boss 429 Mustangs and Hemi Road Runners anchors the muscle car field.
Bidders and enthusiasts tracking classic muscle car values, Ford Mustang Boss 429 auction results and Mopar Hemi Road Runner sale prices will want to watch the auction action at Nashville Superspeedway closely from September 22-26.