Coming off the ten-car Thursday sale of no-reserve Maranello Rosso Ferraris, marked by the Monterey week benchmark sale of Ferrari...
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The Bonhams Simeone Museum 2014 auction will be held Monday, October 6th at the Simeone Automotive Museum in Philadelphia. Now...
When Mecum Auctions announced early in 2009 that they’d be joining the annual auctions crush at Monterey they put themselves in the cross-hairs of the most intense, demanding week on the annual auctions calendar. The other Monterey auctions – RM, Gooding, Bonhams and Russo and Steele – had made Monterey...
Gooding & Company concluded its 2014 Pebble Beach auction with $106,004,800 in sales, concluding 107 of 121 lots, an 88.4%...
The Bonhams Goodwood Revival Auction 2014 was held Saturday 13th September at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in Chichester, England, resulting...
RM established itself, by a large margin and with authority, as the top Monterey auction this year, selling a nearly inconceivable 93% of the 129 lots crossing the block, bringing in a total sale of $144,309,350, an average transaction of $1,202,578 and a median of $451,000. The average transaction at...
The RM Auctions London 2014 sale was held 8th September at Battersea Evolution in London, resulting in £21,811,945 ($36,348,733 USD)...
The Auctions America Auburn Fall 2014 sale was held August 27-31 at Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana, resulting in...
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor 2014 was the year Bonhams sold Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 3851GT for $38,115,000, an all-time record for a collector car – or any car at all for that matter – at auction. Some pundits thought the GTO, the first time one has...
The Russo and Steele Monterey Auction 2014 was held August 14-16 in downtown Monterey, California, resulting in $12,074,960 in total...
The Mecum Monterey Auction 2014 was held August 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa in Monterey, California,...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2014 was held August 16-17 at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in Pebble Beach, California, resulting in total sales of $106 million and an 88% sell-through rate. A total of 30 cars sold for over $1,000,000 and 16 new auction records were set...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge 2014 Auctions were held Thursday, August 14th and Friday, August 15th on the grounds of the...
The RM Auctions Monterey 2014 auction was held August 15-16 at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey,...
Bonhams Maranello Rosso Auction, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, August 14, 2014 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It has been a quarter century since a 250 GTO was offered publicly. There was, therefore, considerable interest when Bonhams announced they had consigned 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 3851 GT...
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold for $38,115,000 (£22,843,633, €28,528,626) at the Bonhams Quail Lodge 2014 Auction, held Thursday, August...
Bonhams announced that it would hold its first-ever auction in Amelia Island, Florida to conincide with the Amelia Island Concours...
A 1930 OM 665 SS Superba 2.3-Litre Supercharged that won its class at the Mille Miglia will be featured at the 2014 Bonhams Goodwood Revival auction, scheduled for 13 September at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in Chichester, UK. After winning its class and finishing fifth overall at the Mille Miglia...
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione Tour de France and a 1964 Shelby 289 Competition Cobra will be among...
For one week each August, the Monterey Peninsula in California is transformed into the epicenter for the classic car community....
The RM Auctions Monterey 2014 auction will be held August 15th and 16th at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, California. RM’s 29th annual flagship two-day Monterey sale will feature 36 cars estimated to sell in excess of $1 million and five estimated to bring more than...
The Mecum Monterey Daytime Auctions 2014 will be held August 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa in...
The debut Rick Cole Auctions Monterey 2014 will be held August 14-17 during Monterey Classic Car Week. The auction of...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach 2014 Auction will be held Saturday, August 16th and Sunday, August, 17th at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in Pebble Beach, California. Gooding’s 11th annual auction will feature more than 120 cars, including 36 estimated to reach bids in excess of $1,000,000. The official...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge 2014 Auction will be held August 14th and August 15th on the grounds of the Quail...
The Russo and Steele Monterey 2014 Auction will be held August 14-16 nearby Fisherman’s Wharf on the waterfront in downtown...
By Rick Carey, Auction Editor The collector car market cratered in 1989-90. What were the significant events that preceded the collapse? 1. Auction companies popped up everywhere trying to get a piece of a rapidly growing number of transactions, increasing prices and resulting commissions; 2. Cars sold to speculators, not...
RM Auctions ‘Motor City’, Inn at St. John’s, July 26, 2014 Another little change this year as RM separated itself...
The debut Mecum Auctions Harrisburg sale was held July 24-27, 2014 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center...
Mecum Auctions has announced that it will be selling the ex-works McLaren M20-01 that was driven by Peter Revson, the defending series champion, during the 1972 Can-Am series at its Monterey sale on Saturday, August 16. The car is the only Team McLaren M20 that retains its original tub, engine...
