Back in January, we told you Linda Perry, the Grammy-nominated songwriter behind some of pop’s biggest hits and the voice behind 4 Non Blondes, was preparing to part with her cherry-red 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS convertible at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale Auction. Now that the dust, and the confetti, has settled, the numbers are in.
The hammer fell on Perry’s Camaro on January 24, about a week into Barrett-Jackson’s marathon nine-day Scottsdale event at WestWorld. The convertible, sold at no reserve like the rest of the docket, brought $137,500, a solid number for a clean, driver-focused SS rather than a numbers-matching restoration. Perry, attending a major collector-car auction for the first time, was on hand to watch the sale in person.
Her car was one small piece of a much bigger event. Barrett-Jackson’s 2026 Scottsdale Auction, the company’s marquee sale, moved 1,911 vehicles for a combined $195.2 million, one of the strongest totals the auction has posted in years. The result reinforced what dealers had been saying all season: interest in clean, honest muscle cars from the late 1960s hasn’t cooled off, even as the broader collector market has grown pickier about condition and provenance.
For Perry, the Camaro was never just a garage flex. She has described spotting the car at a show years ago and being unable to walk away from it. It became a fixture in her life on and off camera, including a cameo in her own documentary. Letting it go this year lines up with a bigger reset already underway in her career.
In May, Perry released Let It Die Here, her first solo album in roughly 25 years, built around themes of reinvention that seem to echo the decision to finally let the Camaro go. The documentary sharing that title premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June and picked up a limited theatrical run before Perry announced a digital release just a couple of weeks ago, putting the film in front of a far wider audience than a festival run alone. Her own website also lists a September 15 date tied to something called Silver Lining, which looks like the next step in the rollout.
So while the Camaro found a new driveway back in January for $137,500, the more interesting follow-up may be what Perry did with the rest of the year: trading one long-term relationship for a very public new chapter in music and film.
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