A selection of sports and racing cars are the latest featured consignments for the 2013 RM Auctions Monterey sale, scheduled...
Monterey Car Week
Monterey Car Week is the mecca for car fans. It is a packed, full week in August of automotive heaven held in and around Monterey, California. The highlight for serious collectors is the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the pinnacle event in the classic car world. The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is a four-day event that has over 500 participants driving historic race cars. The Jet Center Party is all about exotic cars and private jets, while the Legends of the Autobahn is all about German cars. The Auctions happen throughout the event, and usually include auction houses such as Bonhams, RM Auctions, Russo and Steele, Gooding & Company, Mecum Auctions, Broad Arrow Group, and historically popular names such as Rick Cole Auctions.
The Quail Motorsports Gathering 2013 will be held Friday, August 16th at the Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel, California....
RM Auctions announced early consignments for its 2013 Monterey sale, scheduled for August 16-17 at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in California. Highlighted offerings for RM’s 28th annual flagship Monterey auction include more than 20 Ferraris and marques such as Maserati, Duesenberg, Hispano-Suiza, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. Among the...
A Vignale-bodied 1953 Ferrari 250 Europa Coupe will be among the headline offerings at the 2013 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction,...
Featured marque Corvette is the major focus in the official poster art of the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled...
Lincoln will feature prominently on the official poster for the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday, August 18th on the grounds of Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. When Edsel B. Ford II came upon the 1956 Lincoln Continental MK II last year, he admired the long lines...
The 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be held August 16-18 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, again serving as an...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2013 will be held Sunday, August 18th on the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf...
The 2013 running of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be staged August 16-18 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Organizers expect up to 1,000 requests for entry into America’s premier historic car race, one of the anchor events of Monterey Classic Car Week. The Governing Committee established...
Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Think about a really good, solid, exterior door latch and lock, the precise snick...
The 2012 edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance raised more than $1.2 million for local charities, the seventh year...
Gooding and Company Pebble Beach, Equestrian Center, Pebble Beach, California, August 18-19, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor $113,736,600 sold in just two days, with just 123 cars offered and 110 sold, an 89.4% sale rate and average transaction value of just over $1 million; $1,033,969 to...
The Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum announced the acquisition of the 1968 Ford GT40 Chassis P/1074 that sold for...
Russo and Steele, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California, August 17-19, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Russo and...
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 17, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Bonhams moved its sale to the back of the Quail Lodge property in 2012 giving itself much more room to maneuver. It also bifurcated its two-day sale, offering motorcycles on Thursday and [mostly]...
Sports Car Digest had three photographers documenting the 2012 running of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, collectively bringing together hundreds...
The Automobilia Monterey 2012 was held Tuesday, August 14th and Wednesday, August 15th at the Embassy Suites in Seaside, California....
Mecum Auctions, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, California, August 16-18, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This was Mecum’s fourth year at Monterey, an expansion which many considered risky at best and foolish at worst. The Mecum team has shown that it was intelligently conceived and nearly flawlessly executed...
RM Auctions, Portola Hotel, Monterey, California, August 17-18, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor RM scored two...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2012 was staged August 16-19 on the 11-turn, 2.238 mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in...
Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It’s been a week since Monterey wound down. It is, by any measure, the best car-week in the world. The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance leads the way, closely followed by the Reunion and a whole litany of events – Gordon and Molly McCall’s Airport...
A Jaguar XK120 Roadster was judged Best in Class in the Postwar Sports Open category at the 2012 Pebble Beach...
The BMW R7 motorcycle was judged Best in Class in the German Motorcycles category at the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours...
The 2012 edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was, as always, held the third Sunday of August on the incomparable 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. The 62nd edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance honored Cars of the Maharajas, Mercer, Fiat, Saoutchik...
The 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette will be celebrated at the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 15-18 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California.
Corvette’s recognition in Monterey, California, will come during its 60th anniversary model year, and a large contingent of Corvette racers is expected representing each of the car’s six generations in competition. Corvette also was the featured marque in 2002.
The 2012 running of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion was held August 16-19 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas,...
The Mecum Monterey Auction 2012 was held August 16-18 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa in Monterey, California, resulting in sales expected to exceed $34 million once final figures including “Bid Goes On” post-auction sales are tallied. The results represent an increase of more than 65% over last...
The Russo and Steele Monterey Auction 2012 was held August 16-18 by Fisherman’s Wharf on the waterfront in downtown Monterey,...
The RM Auctions Monterey 2012 auction was held August 17–18 at the Portola Hotel in Monterey, California, resulting in $95.2...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge Auction 2012 was held August 16-17 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California, resulting in total sales of $12.8 million and a 51% sell-through rate. Held in connection with the Quail Motorsport Gathering, the 15th annual Bonhams Quail Lodge sale featured approximately 150 cars and motorcycles....