Collector car auction icon Rick Cole has joined Barrett-Jackson as an Automotive Specialist. The announcement was made on the auction...
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A selection of significant Ferraris have been consigned to the RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale, scheduled for May 11-12 at...
Auctions America by RM, Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 16-18, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This year marked RM’s tenth year in South Florida with a sale that has become one of the anchors of the annual auction calendar. After beginning on the...
By Martin Swig Every few weeks we read of a new world record price paid for a collector car. Are...
Mecum Auctions will celebrate its Silver anniversary at Dana Mecum’s 25th Original Spring Classic Auction, scheduled for May 15-20, 2012,...
RM Auctions, Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida, March 10, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This year marked RM Auctions’ fourteenth year at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The $23,102,000 total sale, RM’s fourth Amelia Island auction over $20 million, brought the total sold at the venue to...
Gooding & Company, Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, Florida, March 9, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor...
A Toleman TG184-2 Formula One race car driven by Ayrton Senna in his debut F1 season is up for auction...
RM Auctions will offer ‘without reserve’ more than 175 vehicles from the Aalholm Automobil Museum during a single-day auction, 12 August, 2012 in southern Denmark. Baron J.O. Raben-Levetzau founded the Aalholm Automobil Museum in 1964 on the Island of Lolland, just west of Nysted, against the Aalholm Castle, one of...
The Lotus collection of Olav Glasius will be offered for sale at the 2012 Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction,...
Auctions America by RM held its Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale auction on March 15-18, 2012 at the Greater Fort...
A 1948 Ferrari 166 Spider Corsa will be featured at the 2012 RM Auctions Monaco sale, scheduled for 11-12 May at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. Scheduled during the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique weekend, the 2012 RM Auctions Monaco auction will also offer the Saltarelli Ducati Collection, 1974 Ferrari...
By Rick Carey, Auction Editor Branson, Missouri was hit with an EF3 (or stronger) tornado on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012,...
The RM Auctions Amelia Island 2012 auction was held Saturday, March 10th at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida, resulting...
The Gooding and Company Amelia Island Auction 2012 was staged Friday, March 9th on the grounds of the Amelia Island Plantation in Florida, resulting in more than $36 million in sales and a 91% sell-through rate. Gooding and Company offered 77 collector cars at its 3rd annual Amelia Island Auction,...
Arizona Auction Week is held each January in Scottsdale, Arizona. The 2012 edition saw the auction houses collectively offer more...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance returns to Amelia Island, Florida on March 8-11, 2012 for the 17th running of the...
Bonhams held its Collectors’ Motor Cars Oxford auction on March 3rd, 2012, resulting in total sales of £1.29 million and a 100% sell-through rate. The top result at the 2012 Bonhams Oxford sale was the 1961 Ferrari 250GTE 2+2 Series 1 Coupe that belonged to the Oscar-winning producer Agostino De...
The Gooding and Company Amelia Island Auction 2012 will be held Friday, March 9th on the grounds of the Amelia...
Leake Auction Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 17-18, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Oklahoma City kicked...
The RM Auctions Amelia Island 2012 auction will be held on Saturday, March 10th on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida. RM Auctions assembled more than 100 automobiles for the single-day auction, which will again act as a prelude to this year’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. “We’re...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, offered the Milhous Collection during a multi-day sale, February 24-25, 2012 in Boca Raton,...
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 Trump Taj Mahal Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Among the selection of automobiles slated to go across the auction block at the 2012 Worldwide Auctioneers Atlantic City is...
Mecum Auctions, Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Florida, January 24-29, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This was...
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 Raton, Florida. The result of over five decades of judicious collecting by brothers Bob and Paul Milhous, the collection features a series of mechanical musical instruments, automobiles and collectibles, handpicked...
Gooding & Company, Fashion Square, Scottsdale, January 20-21, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Since coming to...
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 19-20, 2012 at the posh Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa. Growing from $6.3 million in 2000 to consistent totals in medium eight figures, RM’s $25,660,400 sale in 2012 marked the...