YouTuber Cleetus McFarland has massive auction and sells off nearly half of his fleet

YouTuber Cleetus McFarland held a massive auction to sell off most of his fleet to fund his new project, which, for whatever reason, involved buying $500,000 worth of superchargers and turbos.

Many of his cars are now gone, including some legends that his subscribers were definitely familiar with.

He even got rid of his iconic ‘Turbinaro’, a jet-powered El Camino.

The only problem is that this was still not enough for his new project.

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This is why McFarland got rid of so many cars

YouTuber Cleetus McFarland held a massive auction to sell around half of his fleet.

McFarland has a few obsessions, and he built his YouTube channel around them.

He’s fixated with jet engines, so we can only imagine what it must’ve felt like for him to get rid of his beloved ‘Turbinaro’, a jet-powered car loosely based on the Chevy El Camino.

McFarland also has a history of buying and selling used police cars – mostly Ford Crown Vics.

He owns so many of those that he lost count, but perhaps it is going to be easier to keep track now because he’s sold so many of them.

In addition to that, he also got rid of a couple of Corvettes – plural – some dually trucks, and some supercharged SUVs.

And that was still nowhere near enough to pay for his new idea.

Here’s why the auction result wasn’t enough to fund his new project

Let’s start with the Crown Victorias, which weren’t worth much.

The Turbinaro sold for around $25,000, and most of the other vehicles at auction also fetched three or four figures at best.

Some of the other cars sold for a mere three figures.

That was probably not enough to fund his new idea, which, according to him already cost him half a million dollars.

Cleetus mentioned spending roughly $500,000 on a massive bulk purchase of turbos for future projects.

This is another obsession of his, because over the years we’ve seen him supercharge and turbocharge absolutely everything from old clunkers to DIY limos (see the picture above, for example).

That’s why he set up the auction, but if the math is mathing, he probably only made back a small portion of that cash he’d already spent.