A 1931 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix previously owned and campaigned by Lord Howe and driven by Tazio Nuvolari will...
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Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor The Taste of Hershey RM Auctions held its Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey sale...
The Mecum Auctions Verde Classics Museum Collection sale was held Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 in Boynton Beach, Florida, resulting in $3,784,520 in total sales. More than 75 collector cars and 470 lots of automobilia from Fran and Ron Green’s personal collection sold during the one-day, no reserve auction. Vehicles began...
Buyers from around the world were all bidding at Bonhams 10th Anniversary auction of distinguished motor cars at the Aston...
A 1968 Porsche 907 LH will be featured at the 2014 Gooding and Company Amelia Island Auction, scheduled for Friday,...
The first Rolls-Royce Phantom III to be sold to America, which featured in the award-winning 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth, is to be sold at Bonhams traditional end of year sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December, 2010, which this year takes place at Mercedes-Benz World at...
Mecum Auctions, Kansas City, Missouri December 5-7, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor The Mecum Auctions machine...
RM Auctions will offer ‘without reserve’ more than 175 vehicles from the Aalholm Automobil Museum during a single-day auction, 12...
The legendary Phil Hill’s son, Derek, drove the historic 1952 Jaguar C-Type, s/n XKC-007 to a C-Type auction world record, selling for $2,530,000 at RM’s Sports & Classics of Monterey event in California. XKC-007 was one of the first C-Types delivered to North America. In 1952, a young Phil Hill...
The RM Auctions Monterey 2014 auction will be held August 15th and 16th at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention...
On December 14, 2020, RM Sotheby’s, in partnership with Scuderia Ferrari, hosted Online Only: Once in a Millennium auction. The event was...
Bonhams announced a selection of early consignments for its annual Monterey Classic Car Week motorcar auction, scheduled for August 13-14, 2015 on the grounds of the Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley, California. Following last year’s results of $108 million, including setting the record for the most valuable car ever sold...
Call it what you will — the Monterey Car Week, Pebble Beach Automotive Week, Concours Week, Holy Car Week or...
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The Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2015 Auction will be held January 10-18 at the WestWorld facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. Barrett-Jackson’s 44th annual Arizona Auction Week sale will feature the largest docket in its history, with more than 1,600 classics, exotics, muscle cars, hot rods, resto-mods and more set to cross the auction...
The second Gooding and Company Geared Online Phil Hill Automobilia Collection will be held on February 8-19, 2021 with several new...
The debut Mecum Austin 2014 auction was held December 12-13 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, resulting in...
Mecum Auctions, Original Spring Classic, State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 14-19, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It is amazing how many collector cars (maybe better characterized as ‘collectible cars’) keep coming out of the woodwork to auctions across the country. Nowhere is that better reflected than...
The Mecum Austin 2015 auction was held December 11-12 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, resulting in $10,876,142...
Gooding & Company looks equipped to impress the Porsche faithful during their 2014 Amelia Island auction, scheduled for Friday, March...
The Gooding and Company Amelia Island 2020 auction was held Friday, March 6th at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Florida, resulting in $20,785,080 in total sales and a 93 percent sell-through rate. Gooding’s 11th annual sale held during the Amelia Island Concours weekend featured nearly 90 cars. “Amelia...
The curtain will rise on an epic collection of vintage automobiles and memorabilia, June 27th to 29th as RM Auctions...
One of just 375 vehicles produced, the initial McLaren P1 to be registered to a customer, complete with a personal...
The Mecum Dallas 2017 auction was held September 6-9 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, resulting in $22.2 million in total sales and a 70 percent sell-through rate. In total, 610 cars changed hands in Dallas over four days, with the top result claimed by a...
In early December, Miles Morris and Malcolm Welford, guiding lights in Christie’s Auction House’s U.S. motoring department, announced that they...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will feature the oldest surviving production Bentley in existence, Chassis 3, in...
Gooding & Company will return to Florida for its 2017 Amelia Island auction on Friday, March 10th. Held on the grounds of the Omni Amelia Island Plantation, the annual sale during the Amelia Island Concours weekend will feature a 1949 Aston Martin DB Mk II, 1955 Lancia Aurelia B24S Spider...
A selection of Porsches from the Jerry Seinfeld Collection will be among the headline offerings at the 2016 Gooding and...
The Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013 auction was held Friday 12 July on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House...
RM Sotheby’s announced a lineup of recent entries for its single-marque Ferrari Leggenda e Passione sale, set for 9 September 2017 in partnership with Ferrari. Held at the marque’s factory in Maranello, the auction celebrates Ferrari’s 70th anniversary year with automotive milestones across seven decades. Highlights among recent entries for...
