Silverstone Auctions held its inaugural sale of classic road and competition cars on 23 July, 2011, the Saturday of the...
Auction Action
This is your hub for all things classic and collector car auctions. We have news, consignments and updates from the car auction industry. Get the heartbeat of this rapidly evolving and energetic part of the automotive and collector world. Interested in upcoming classic car auctions? We are the leading online resource for information on the dates, details. and amazing cars coming up for auctions soon. We preview the best collector car auctions from the top auction houses in the business. Get tickets and prepare your checkbooks. Reports, results, previews and more from the classic car auction industry. Need to know a collector car value or have an interest in understanding the classic car market and prices? Want to know what a specific car sold for any any records that were broken? This is the section for you. All the recent collector car auctions results can be found here.
RM Auctions will offer the Milhous Collection during a multi-day private sale, scheduled for February 2012 near Palm Beach, Florida....
Gooding & Company announced that the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype (s/n 0666 TR) and the 1963 Shelby Cobra 289 Factory Team Car (s/n CSX2129) will be offered at auction at their upcoming Pebble Beach Auctions on August 20-21, 2011. “Being in the presence of the 1957 Ferrari Testa...
The Dana Point Concours d’Elegance 2011 was held June 24-26 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana Point,...
Gooding & Company will feature five coachbuilt Ferraris at its 2011 Pebble Beach Auctions, scheduled for August 20-21 in Pebble...
A selection of Porsche race cars will be featured at the 14th annual Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, held August 18-19, 2011 in Carmel, California. Last year at Quail Lodge Bonhams set a world record for any Porsche sold at auction when the 1972 917 Interserie Spyder (1970 Gulf-JWA Le Mans...
Bonhams staged their annual Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on 1 July, 2011 on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House...
Mecum Auctions held its annual Bloomington Gold Corvette auction on June 24-25, 2011, in St. Charles, Illinois, resulting in total...
The Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 auction will be held 1 July on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House in Chichester, Sussex. Bonhams has gathered a selection of 100 automobiles for the 19th annual Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale, headlined by the ex-Innes Ireland 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Cabriolet,...
RM Auctions staged its inaugural sale at the Salon Prive Concours d’Elegance on 23 June, 2011 at Syon Park in...
Bonhams will hold an auction comprised entirely of BMW produced and powered automobiles, motorcycles and related automobilia on October 1,...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will feature the oldest surviving production Bentley in existence, Chassis 3, in addition to a 1931 Brough Superior SS80 once owned by both Steve McQueen and Von Dutch. “We’re delighted to present extraordinary collector examples of two renowned British marques, the 1921...
Star consignments for the RM Auctions Monterey 2011 sale are beginning to surface, headlined by the matching-numbers 1955 Ferrari 750...
RM Auctions will hold its inaugural sale at the Salon Prive Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for 23 June, 2011 at Syon...
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Following last year’s two-day Houston auction featuring the R.E. Monical and Buess family collections Worldwide put on a one-day sale in 2011, a high-intensity offering of 129 cars and boats. While the numbers are off from 2010, the sale itself was one...
Mecum Auctions held its 24th Annual Original Spring Classic Auction, May 17-22, 2011, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis,...
The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2011 took place May 20-22 on the grounds of the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este and...
The Gooding & Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will feature a bespoke Duesenberg Long Wheelbase Model J designed for Captain George Whittell Jr., known as the Whittell Coupe. “Historically, Duesenberg Model J owners were among the most powerful and worldly of America’s pre-war elite and, with six model Js in...
Auctions America by RM held its inaugural spring auction at Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana on May 12-15, 2011....
Bonhams will offer the 1979 BMW M1 Pro Car painted by Frank Stella on behalf of the Solomon R. Guggenheim...
Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Palm Beach, now in its ninth year, was the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company’s first continuously successful geographic expansion. Palm Beach brought “the experience” of Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale to a new venue far from Scottsdale’s WestWorld and demonstrated that it was a viable, vital concept outside the...
Bonhams will hold its 2011 Les Grandes Marques à Monaco on Friday, May 20th in Monte Carlo, with more than...
The inaugural RM Auctions Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este auction will be held 21 May, 2011 on the banks of Lake...
RM Auctions will hold its ‘Quintessentially English’ auction at the Salon Prive Concours d’Elegance on Thursday, 23rd June, 2011. Held at the Syon Park estate in West London, the recently-launched Salon Prive auction will see a host of great British marques cross the sale block, including Aston Martin, Jaguar and...
Mecum Auctions is expanding to Texas with the addition of a new Dallas Auction, scheduled to be held October 7-8,...
The Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 auction will be staged 1 July on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House....
The inaugural Donington Historic Festival will be held 30 April to 1 May, 2011 at Donington Park near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. The on-track action at Donington Historic Festival 2011 will see more than 300 historic racing cars battling it out in a packed programme of historic races from...
Auctions America by RM, a subsidiary of RM Auctions, is expanding to include a vintage motorcycle division with the acquisition...
Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Gooding & Company staged its Amelia Island Auction event on...
Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction Editor RM Auctions completed its thirteenth year at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on March 12, 2011, bringing 103 cars and selling 99 of them for a total of $24,303,850. It was RM’s best year ever at Amelia: the highest sale...