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David Helmer is a Hall of Fame auctioneer and the President of Braun and Helmer Auction Service in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since 1971 he and his team have helped clients sell their estates, antiques, farms, real estate, motorcycles, trucks, and automobiles. David conducts over 100 auctions yearly working with individual clients and many nonprofit groups including the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions, and Motts Children’s Hospital. David also owns The Super Auction and the website TheAuctioneerChannel.com. He’s the past president of the Michigan State Auctioneers association and earned State Champion Auctioneer in 2006 and in 2008 the Ring Man Champion. In 2014 he was inducted in to the MSA Auction Hall of Fame.
SHOW SPONSORS
Covercraft • MetronGarage • Christopher Kimball Financial Services
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE
“They wouldn’t let me out of the plant. They had a career planned out for me which wasn’t the one that I wanted.” – Jack Roush
CAREER & LIFE CHALLENGES
Discovering how to clearly define what his auction business was going to be.
FIRST SPECIAL VEHICLE
A 1983 Mercury Grand Marquis
AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
Don’t buy emotionally. Know what you’re buying.
RESOURCES
Braun and Helmer Auction Service
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Best Damn Garage In Town by Smokey Yunick
Miracle: Bobby Allison and the Saga of the Alabama Gang by Peter Golenback
PARTING WORDS OF ADVICE
Be your own person.
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