Leake Auction Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 17-18, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Oklahoma City kicked...
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The RM Auctions Amelia Island 2012 auction will be held on Saturday, March 10th on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, offered the Milhous Collection during a multi-day sale, February 24-25, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida, resulting in over $38.3 million in sales and 100% of all lots sold. The result of over 50 years of dedicated collecting by brothers Bob and Paul Milhous, the...
A 1953 Ferrari-engined hydroplane racing boat Arno XI will be featured at the RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale, scheduled for...
Worldwide Auctioneers will hold its Classics at the Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City auction on February 24th, 2012, at the...
Mecum Auctions, Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Florida, January 24-29, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This was the largest collector car auction in history. Its 2,158 cars and boats across the auction block were within a shout of the total cars that had crossed the block in...
Bonhams, Westin Kierland Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 19, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Bonhams joined the...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will offer the Milhous Collection during a multi-day sale, February 24-25, 2012 in Boca...
Gooding & Company, Fashion Square, Scottsdale, January 20-21, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Since coming to Arizona in 2008 Gooding & Company has established itself at the core of the Arizona collector car auction experience, bringing outstanding cars and a refreshing upscale environment. 2012 continued that...
With the 2012 Arizona Auction Week and Paris sales behind us, we thought it was a good time to update...
Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This year marked RM’s “Lucky Thirteenth” Arizona auction, held January...
The Porsche Collection of Matt Drendel will be offered at the 2012 Gooding and Company Amelia Island Auction, scheduled for Friday, March 9th in Amelia Island, Florida. The Drendel Family Collection consists of both road and race cars spanning 25 years of Porsche history from 1973 – 1997, with 10...
The Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction was held Friday 3rd February 2012 at the Retromobile Show in Paris, resulting in €14.5...
Bonhams held its flagship Paris auction on Thursday 2 February 2012 at La Halle Freyssinet in Paris, resulting in total...
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale event was so different from years ago it’s difficult to put it in perspective. B-J was once a collector car auction with a big party. Today it’s a bigger party, built around a collector car and affluent lifestyle trade show,...
Mecum Auctions held its 2012 Kissimmee Auction on January 24-29 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, resulting in total...
Russo and Steele staged its 12th annual Sports and Muscle in Scottsdale auction on January 18-22, 2012 in Arizona, resulting...
By Rick Carey, Auction Editor Once the spiritual home of the Muscle Car, clones, “Resto-mods” and Pony Cars, the Scottsdale auctions are now dominated by great sports cars, Classics and custom cars. The turnaround has been dramatic. Barrett-Jackson returned to its roots with a Salon collection assembled by Gordon McCall...
The Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction will be staged Friday 3rd February 2012 at the Retromobile Show in Paris. Artcurial has...
Bonhams will hold its flagship Paris auction on Thursday 2 February 2012 at La Halle Freyssinet in Paris. Over 100...
Gooding & Company held its 2012 Scottsdale Auction event on January 20-21 at the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall in Scottsdale, Arizona, resulting in $39.8 million in total sales and a 98% sales rate. Gooding offered 118 lots for sale in Scottsdale, with top sale going to the alloy-bodied 1955 Mercedes-Benz...
Barrett-Jackson held its 41st annual Arizona auction at WestWorld of Scottsdale on January 15-22, 2012, resulting in more than $92...
The inaugural Bonhams Scottsdale auction was staged January 19th, 2012 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, resulting in...
Barrett-Jackson announced that Gordon McCall joined the auction company to help launch and maintain its newly created “Salon Offering Collection” division. McCall is well-known in the classic car community as Co-Founder and Motorsports Director of the Quail, a Motorsports Gathering and the Quail, a Motorcycle Gathering events. McCall has also...
RM Auctions held its 2012 Automobiles of Arizona sale on January 19-20 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, resulting...
Mecum Auctions will hold its newly expanded, six-day Kissimmee Auction on January 24-29, 2012 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee,...
RM Auctions returns to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Amelia Island, Florida on March 10, 2012 for its annual Amelia Island auction. Now in its 14th year, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will showcase over 100 automobiles, with consignments including a 1934 Packard Twelve Dietrich Convertible...
By Ed Lenahan When Gooding and Company opens their 2012 auction season at the Scottsdale Fashion Square in Scottsdale, Arizona...
Russo and Steele will hold its 12th annual Sports and Muscle in Scottsdale auction on January 18-22, 2012 in Scottsdale,...
The inaugural Bonhams Scottsdale auction will be held January 19th, 2012 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Bonhams assembled approximately 65 automobiles for their first foray into Arizona Auction Week, headlined by the 1967 Porsche 906E Racing Coupe, 1924 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8 Torpedo Tourer, 1932 Packard Model...
