A barn-find Delahaye has been consigned to the Worldwide Auburn Labor Day Auction, scheduled for September 2-4, 2011 at the...
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Bonhams will throw their hat into the Arizona Auction Week ring in 2012, joining RM Auctions, Gooding and Company, Barrett-Jackson,...
The Russo and Steele Monterey 2011 auction was held August 18-20 at the Marriott Hotel in Monterey, California, resulting in total sales of $8.5 million and a 64% sell-through rate. The 11th annual Russo and Steele Monterey “Sports and Muscle” event saw a record increase in bidders–both domestic and international–and...
Mecum Auctions held their third annual Monterey Auction on August 18-20, 2011 at the Del Monte Golf Course in Monterey...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 was held August 20-21 at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in Pebble...
Bonhams held its 2011 Quail Lodge auction on August 18-19 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California, resulting in $11 million in total sales and a 50% sell-through rate. Held in connection with The Quail, A Motorsport Gathering, the 14th annual Bonhams Quail Lodge sale featured approximately 130 cars and...
RM Auctions held its 2011 Sports and Classics of Monterey auction on August 19-20 at the Portola Hotel in Monterey,...
Worldwide Auctioneers will hold their annual Auburn Auction on September 2-4, 2011 at the Worldwide Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana....
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Mecum in the Middle (Middle America, That Is, i.e., Des Moines, Iowa, July 15-16, 2011) First, let’s be clear: there aren’t many “sports cars” in the Mecum Des Moines auction, but this is Middle America (about 300 miles east northeast of the...
The 2011 Russo and Steele Monterey Sports and Muscle auction will be held August 18-20 at the Marriott Hotel in...
Call them what you want–Monterey Car Week, Pebble Beach Automotive Week, Concours Week, Holy Car Week or simply Car Heaven–but...
RM Auctions will hold its 2011 Sports and Classics of Monterey auction on August 19th and 20th at the Portola Hotel and Spa and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, California. The 26th annual RM Monterey auction will feature approximately 150 cars, with a multitude estimated to garner over $1 million....
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will be held Saturday, August 20th and Sunday, August, 21st at the...
A sculpture featuring Ayrton Senna’s McLaren MP4/6 from his last season as Formula One World Champion is to be sold...
Bonhams announced two headline consignments for its upcoming Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia auction at the Goodwood Revival Meeting on 16 September, 2011. In the 50th anniversary year of the E-Type Jaguar, these two consignments are the ex-Sir Robert Ropner ‘Semi-Lightweight’ E-Type plus the ex-Briggs Cunningham Team 1958 Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly’...
Report and photos by Rick Carey RM Auctions, Inn at St. John’s, Plymouth, Michigan, July 30, 2011 Meadow Brook is...
Bonhams will hold its 14th annual Monterey Week auction at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California. The two-day sale will...
RM Auctions held its Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s sale on July 30, 2011 in Plymouth, Michigan, resulting in $7.6 million in sales with 85% of lots sold. Formerly known as the Meadow Brook auction, RM’s Michigan sale adopted a new home in 2011 – the Inn at...
By Will Silk When conversing about American premium luxury automobile manufacturers, no conversation would be complete without the mention of Packard;...
Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed Auction Report – July 1, 2011 Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Goodwood is good...
A collection of significant Mercedes-Benz will be offered at the upcoming RM Auctions Monterey auction. The two-day Monterey sale, scheduled August 19 – 20, 2011, will present 13 examples from the German marque, spanning over 80 years of production. The headline consignment is a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster,...
Silverstone Auctions held its inaugural sale of classic road and competition cars on 23 July, 2011, the Saturday of the...
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,...
