Godley's auction

lloyd in sc · Mar 14, 2018

Drove past Godley's auction yard in Charlotte NC & wanted to learn more. Seems like not too much on the web for them.

Anyone here been there?

Traditional Farmer · Mar 14, 2018

Used to go there years ago think it was the 4th Friday of the month,restaurant across the road served a great breakfast and they had two pretty girls following the auction truck
selling sodas and food one drove the tractor pulling the concession wagon.Never bought much there as they were usually higher than the PA auctions back then.

tomstractorsandtoys · Mar 14, 2018

Never been there but Dad had a buyer that bought us a lot of 3020's and 4020's out of there in the late 80's to early 90's. Some were fairly rough but cheap. Tom

jdr1943 · Mar 14, 2018

Been going there for over forty years back in the 70s 80s it was the place to go back then there would be at least 50 or more tractors and lots of good implements and parts Chick Godley was a little man he would get on the hoods of the tractors at the start of the row and walk most of the entire line trying to get bids raised now I have been there eat breakfast across the street and leave before the sale started I will probably go the 23rd of march and maybe the April sale these two usually have a decent amount of equipment but I haven't seen any decent tractors in some time the Fri.after thanksgiving is the biggest sale of the year the rest of the monthly sales are mostly just somewhere to go.

fred goodrich · Mar 14, 2018

I used to eat Thanksgiving dinner and then head to Godleys for the next day, what a trip from NY on a full stomach. Frankie is one great auctioneer I have had the privledge of working with him. Would love to get back down there I cannot find an ad for the auction. How do you spell priviledge? Beaudry's out of Ontario use to flood that sale with tractors. When my boy was young he ate 13 hotdogs one sale, it was very convenient the lunch cart following the auction truck then when it got dark the light plant would follow. Remember Mike from England? I think he had his own corner of the yard. Then there was a lady auctioneer selling smalls inside. Frankie treated me like a king when I went down. Pick you up at the airport and then I road with him next day they had sale somewhere, Maybe Orangeburg? Wasn't there a Temco tractor parts warehouse right close to there? Yes would like to relive those days.

jdr1943 · Mar 15, 2018

Fred Goodrich Frankie is a good man Johnny has passed he lost a leg some years back at his farm a buffalo attacked and if his daughter had not seen what was happening he would have died she ran the buffalo over with her jeep it was cancer that got him Jimmy the oldest is still the same ornery old fart that he has always been as mentioned in my earlier post it is a small fraction of what it was when you were attending.

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