By Stephen Mitchell My pilgrimage to Pebble Beach this year was memorable for many reasons. My purpose in attending was...
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 1947 Italian Championship-winning 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza and a 1995 McLaren F1 have been consigned to Gooding...
The 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will host a special gathering of Alfa Romeo 8C automobiles–predicted to be the largest recorded gathering of these iconic sports cars–before they head off on a challenging 1,000-mile tour of the Rocky Mountains. Of the original 230 Alfa Romeo 8Cs built between 1931 and...
By Martin Swig Art Center College of Design and the California Mille are collaborating on a tour from Pasadena to...
A 1950 Aston Martin DB2 ‘Washboard’ was displayed at the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held Sunday, August 16th at...
A 1956 Aston Martin DBR1 chassis number 1 will be among headline entries at the 2017 RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, scheduled for August 18-19 during the Monterey Classic Car Week. The DBR1 was the result of David Brown’s dream to win Le Mans, a victory achieved by DBR1/1’s sister car...
The Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum announced the acquisition of the 1968 Ford GT40 Chassis P/1074 that sold for...
Bonhams & Butterfields will auction the 1939 Auto Union ‘D-Type’ with rear-mounted, 3-litre twin-stage supercharged V12-cylinder engine at the Quail Lodge...
The Automobilia Monterey 2013 will be held Tuesday, August 13th and Wednesday, August 14th at the Embassy Suites in Seaside, California. Long a mainstay of Monterey Classic Car Week, the 11th annual Automobilia Monterey is the preeminent North America event for collectors of original, vintage automotive collectibles....
The Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) will return to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance with a selection of automotive artwork...
The 2021 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is currently underway, from August 12 through August 15, 2021. SportsCarDigest photojournalist Kristina Cilia brings...
The Concorso Italiano 2012 will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design when the event returns Friday, August 17th to the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch in Monterey, California. The Cars of Bertone will be the centerpiece of the 27th annual Concorso Italiano, with Bertone displaying several concept cars to North...
Significant moves are in store at Concorso Italiano, as the Monterey Car Week staple announced changes to its location and...
The first car made by Giotto Bizzarrini when he was a mechanical engineering student at the University of Pisa will...
By Bill Rothermel Bonhams will offer a significant vintage Bentley automobile at its upcoming Quail Lodge sale in Carmel, California on Friday August 16th, 2013. The car, a 1931 Bentley 4 1/2-Litre Supercharged Le Mans Roadster, known by aficionados as a “Blower Bentley,” is considered the holy grail of Bentleys...
The German marque BMW will be featured at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2016, scheduled for August 18-21 at Mazda...
The BMW R7 motorcycle was judged Best in Class in the German Motorcycles category at the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours...
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...
Bonhams & Butterfields, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 18-19, 2011 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor The...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge Auction 2012 will be held August 16-17 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California. Bonhams’ two-day...
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]...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge Auction 2012 was held August 16-17 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California, resulting in total...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge 2013 Auction will be held Friday, August 16th on the grounds of the Quail Lodge in...
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 16, 2013 Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Quail Lodge (let alone the $29.6 million sale of the Mercedes-Benz W196 at Goodwood in July) is ample evidence that Bonhams has raised its game. They have declined to exist in...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge 2013 Auction was held Friday, August 16th on the grounds of the Quail Lodge in Carmel...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge 2014 Auction will be held August 14th and August 15th on the grounds of the Quail...
Coming off the ten-car Thursday sale of no-reserve Maranello Rosso Ferraris, marked by the Monterey week benchmark sale of Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 3851GT, Friday’s Bonhams auction had high expectations to meet. And meet them it did. Bonhams offered 105 cars on Friday, selling 95 of them, a 90.5% sale...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge 2014 Auctions were held Thursday, August 14th and Friday, August 15th on the grounds of the...
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 14, 2015 Bonhams had little hope of following up last year’s blockbuster two-day...
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 19, 2016 The total sale may be off from 2013’s $107.5 million blockbuster 2-day sale including the Maranello Rosso collection (and, not incidentally, the 250 GTO s/n 3851GT’s $38.1 million price) and 2014’s strong performance of $44.3 million but 2016 marked a highly...